During the weeks after the "1.0" release, our Starling didn't think about slowing down or relaxing; on the contrary, he made some excessive flight-training and has learned several cool new tricks! Thus, without further ado: we present to you, the Starling Framework: version 1.1! Multi-Resolution Development With AIR 3.2 out...

The new Gamua homepage has now been online for a while, but it lacked an area where the Starling community could organize itself; a dynamic place to collect and showcase all kinds of information. A place like that is now finally available! It's the Starling Wiki. What is the Starling...

It has been a while since our last post in the "Users's Corner" series! This time, Paul Malolepsy did us the favor of describing his experiences with Sparrow in Alki Lab's latest game. Who Are You? I am Paul Malolepsy, co-founder of Alki Labs. I've been playing and building video...

This tutorial is for everyone who wants to create a Sparrow game. It is a comprehensive introduction for beginners and sheds a light on best practices using the example of a small game. Read this 101 and you are up and running in no time! In this article we will...

I already mentioned it in the release article: Sparrow 1.3 contains a powerful new Scaffold Project. Take this project as the starting point of your game, and many tasks suddenly become super-simple. To make sure everybody can work with that scaffold, I have now created a very extensive series of...

In a productive development environment it's usually a good idea to think about the automation of recurring processes like compiling, testing and deploying development code to test devices. For iOS apps this becomes a pain as soon as you develop outside Xcode: That's why this article explains how to deploy...

With all the buzz about Starling, our first-born bird has felt somewhat neglected during the last months. Actually, I think he was starting to get a little jealous of his new sister bird! I must say I agree with him: Sparrow's last update was in the middle of last year,...