Usually the automated test suites run in series. The main reason for this behaviour is about the consistency of the data which is accessed by the tests. This means, for example, that if a test A drops the users' database, and the test B does the same thing, then they ...

Motivation

In a similar way to other parts of a game, user interfaces usually go through several iterations until we get the user experience right; it is vital that we can iterate over different ideas as fast as possible. Using a MVC pattern to organize the view is a proven ...

When writing games for Android, one of the more tedious tasks is to write the code to communicate between the native Java interfaces and your main C++ game. In this article we will discuss an implementation used at Social Point that reduces the amount of C++ boilerplate code needed and ...

The mobile games market is expanding incredibly fast, and if you’re reading this, you’re probably already familiar with free-to-play games like the ones we make here at Social Point. Based on the “freemium” model, these games all have one thing in common – they can be played for free ...

Next tuesday July 22th the Barcelona Erlang Meetup is back and we are proud to host it in our offices. We are very excited to connect again with the Erlang community in Barcelona.

We met for the first time last february and it is a good time to meet again ...

I’m proud to announce that Social Point is sponsoring deSymfonyDay 2014, the most important Symfony event in the hispanic community and one of the most important in the world.

The conference kicks off tomorrow, Saturday 31 May at the Casa Convalescència, Calle Maria Claret 171, Barcelona.

As a technology ...

I’m very excited to announce the launch of the new Social Point Engineering Blog.

We have created this blog to share our learnings and some interesting technical challenges with our community. And there’s plenty to share!

There wouldn't be problems if there weren't challenging and constantly ...