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Simian Industries Announces SIMPAK, SIMPNG

Simian Industries has announced the release of 2 dedicated game development tools to assist developers in the mobile and console/PC gaming sphere.

SIMPAK 1.1 is a Win32 ...

Simon Carless, Blogger

September 1, 2004

1 Min Read

Simian Industries has announced the release of 2 dedicated game development tools to assist developers in the mobile and console/PC gaming sphere. SIMPAK 1.1 is a Win32 GUI based application that takes a list of individual images and compiles them all onto single or multiple Texture Pages of a defined size. SIMPNG (together with a MIDP library) is a utility that allows the palletization of images on mobile phones.

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Simon Carless

Simon Carless

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Simon Carless is the founder of the GameDiscoverCo agency and creator of the popular GameDiscoverCo game discoverability newsletter. He consults with a number of PC/console publishers and developers, and was previously most known for his role helping to shape the Independent Games Festival and Game Developers Conference for many years.

He is also an investor and advisor to UK indie game publisher No More Robots (Descenders, Hypnospace Outlaw), a previous publisher and editor-in-chief at both Gamasutra and Game Developer magazine, and sits on the board of the Video Game History Foundation.

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