Author Archives: Xerra

About Xerra

Old school programmer with a serious love of Retro-games. Co-Director of Dexterity Design.

Swift 2 – The future of IOS development.

Posted on 16/09/2015 by Xerra

With iDef up on the appStore with no – aparent – bugs found as yet, Aaron and I are both looking into Swift for future development of our games. iDef was written completely in Objective C, with the use of … Continue reading →

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iDef gets released. What’s next for Dexterity Design?

Posted on 01/09/2015 by Xerra

iDef finally went on sale on the IOS store a couple of days ago which meant that, as a live project, we’ve finished actively working on it. Providing there’s no patching needed – which shouldn’t be needed due to all … Continue reading →

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Getting iDef to the people

Posted on 02/07/2015 by Xerra

iDef is almost here. It’s a great game but I suspect it’s going to be a very niche market that really goes for it and appreciates the labour of love that it’s actually been. As far as I recall, Aaron … Continue reading →

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Working with IOS as a new platform

Posted on 17/06/2015 by Xerra

Once we had formed a company partnership and decided the route forward was to work with IOS then the tricky part of learning a new language came into play. Prior to this I’d been a die-hard PC user quite happily … Continue reading →

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My first Blitz game in ages.

Posted on 02/06/2015 by Xerra

I recently made the decision to stop messing about with Blitz and get into Swift so Aaron and I could start working on IOS development. However, because I got a Mac-mini to enable me to do all this by having … Continue reading →

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