Book review season is back again, this time with a title that opens up your eyes to Microsoft’s wondrous sensor, the Kinect.

In yet another book review in game development and graphics land, I was handed a copy of the excellent Unity Shaders and Effects cookbook. This sturdy reference is a nice comparison to the previous HLSL cookbook I reviewed earlier.

Need to update this list and move it to a better place, such as github

I’ve been around the game development arena for so many years now that it actually hurts if i try to think back too far , it is always been as a hobbyist working on a string budget (and sometimes I couldn’t afford the string) so I always had to make best use of what I had and everything else, well, lets just say it is been fun.

Not so long ago Intel launched their new perceptual computing vision which effectively is a cheaper alternative to Microsoft Kinect sensor, alongside that they began a challenge to create some inventive apps using the camera and to a select few (about 125+ developers) they offered the chance to win and own one. I entered 3 different apps into the challenge and to me surprise all three got accepted (only got one camera though )

While finally getting back round to me game development roots another interesting book crossed my desk which delves into the mysterious and sometimes scary world of shaders.

Following on from the previous articles I thought I would let you in on the newcomer to the Data Provider party, namely Telerik’s Everlive service and their new cloud data sync components.

After playing a lot with Parse over the last few weeks I thought I would share some of my findings.

The main reason I have been so quite of late is because I have been focusing on entries for Nokia’s @DVLUP challenges in the hope to earn some XP and get some fantastic goodies. Just about finished on my last project and decided to have a breather (also they extended my current challenge, more time is always good for QA)

Just before I come up for air and start blogging in earnest I received an interesting offer to review another Android book. if you cast you mind back I did a review of “Android 4: New features for Application Development” (http://bit.ly/12E5q2u) which was a good highlight of the new bits, this book takes you back to basics and walks you through setting up, your first app and beyond.

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Readers would be pleased to know that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing to organize a Giveaway of a new book

Cross Posted from this post on AdRotator’s new site – http://getadrotator.com/ (still a work in progress but a start :D)