Unveiling the Thrilling World of “Orcs and Outlaws": Watch the Official Beta Trailer Now! Greetings, wish-listers, adventurers, steamers and gamers! We are excited to share some news that we've been eagerly waiting to unveil. The moment you've all been waiting for has arrived! The first official trailer for our new action-shooter , "Orcs and Outlaws,"...
Category: Cloud Gaming
Tips for Starting a Games Development Company in Ireland
I originally had created a blog post on tips for tech start-ups. I have updated it for games companies and games start-ups. Also most of these don’t specifically apply to Irish games companies – hopefully you find them useful. They are based on my experience with a number of games and mobile start-ups. Your majority...
Big Data and Gaming
As the gaming industry continues to grow, it is no wonder that commentators see Big Data analytics as the perfect development tool in this progression. The phenomenal growth of gaming worldwide with an estimated two billion gamers creates a convenient data flow, which if managed correctly can drive user engagement to an even more intuitive...
Advergaming, Branded Games and Marketing Games
Advergaming, branded games, marketing games as part of the marketing mix are increasingly making their presence known world wide. This kind of marketing connects with the consumer in a fun but casual way, on all types of devices, but primarily on mobile devices. It seeks to provide positive experiences for the players or players, this in turn...
Unity Game Engine
Fierce Fun is moving some of our client code over to the Unity game engine. We have been working with it for a while now and are impressed by its game dev specific feature list. It’s component approach to programming takes a bit of getting used to and we miss running the main game loop...
Bespoke Custom Games for business – Works every time.
As the gaming community has known for a long time, a game is not just about winning or losing, its far more important than that. Games are increasing in complexity all the time and are now firmly rooted in our everyday lives. Recent daily news reports about the invasion of PokemonGO players to such diverse...
The Best Quiz app for Android!
Do you enjoy trivia games? Do you get frustrated every time you see a contestant missing a blindingly obvious answer on tv shows? Well, it’s time for you to release your inner trivia geek with Quiz Time Trivia Quiz! This is Quiz fun for trivia fans. The Best Quiz app for Android!
Fierce Fun at the CoderDojo Coolest Projects Awards
A Dojo as many of you know is a Japanese word for a place to train in the ‘way’. The ‘way’ is synonymous with the training of the martial arts such as Karate, Judo, Aikido and even for the training of the famous Japanese ultra warriors, known as Samurai. It is apt then that the...
Ireland’s Fastest ISP (Internet Service Provider)
So here we have it. A list of the top performing Internet Service Provider (ISPs) in Ireland. This list was taken from Steam, the global online gaming portal developed by Valve. It has close to 100 million users and as it hosts online games, it gives a good indication of the performance of ISPs as...
WebGL: The Future of Interactive Web Animation
WebGL (Web Graphics Library) is a cross-platform, royalty-free web standard for a low-level 2D/3D graphics API based on OpenGL ES 2.0, exposed through the HTML5 Canvas element as Document Object Model interfaces. Ok, in plain English!. WebGL is a JavaScript library for displaying interactive 3D and 2D graphics within any compatible web browser without the...