Random collection of updates here, apologies for not having blogged a little bit more over the past few weeks, been extremely busy but this are just getting back to normal. D&AD judging was great fun - joing the panel with a few old friends that I’ve worked with before (Rob from Preloaded and Gravy from Playerthree), some people I’ve long wanted to meet (Tetsuya Mizuguchi - designer of Rez, Lumines, Space Channel 5, Sega Rally and Alice Taylor of Wonderland blog) and luminaries from the casual/commerical games world (Ben from Tribal and Loius from Skive).

Unity have announced upcoming support for the iPhone (following their support for the wii). You’ll still need to pay your £50 to join the Apple developer program, and it will most likely be cut down to some extent in terms of feature, but it promises to be one of the easiest ways for game creators to get their content on the iPhone.

Hudson soft have joined the swelling ranks of traditional games developers that have announced ports of existing properties as well as new titles for the iPhone. They’ve pictured a Bomberman port, which is a bit of a weird one - can’t see this working without buttons but definitely give them a chance. Theres also “Touch Trix” - presumably some sort of demo showing a few of the fruits of their mucking about

The oolong engine is an open source iPhone game engine developer by Wolfgang Engel. Compatible with the unofficial and official SDK it has a tasty feature set including full support for the Bullet physics library. Grab the code from Google Code.

The latest Bullet Physics engine (2.68) has been released with Softbody physics, including cloth, rope and deformable volumes. I LOVE softbody physics! Time to get working on that blob-em-up you’ve always wanted to make. Its about time someone made a killer game with a mechanic based on softbody physics (yeah I know, Gish and locoroco sorta did, but maybe a game with more than just a blobby avatar.) Check out the demos and get the source from google code.

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