Build 'n' Bash 3D

SKAPP Enterprises is a vibrant and innovative cross-platform indie app development studio that is best known for its flagship 3D titles ‘BuildnBash 3D’ and ‘Save the Earth!’

Overview

Like the true innovators they are, the SKAPP team was hell-bent on wringing every last ounce of performance from the awesome stereoscopic 3D of the new PlayBook and pushing BlackBerry OS to its high-performance limits.

Implementation

SKAPP identified Marmalade as being a cut above the rest for delivering cross-platform 3D mobile performance. This hardly comes as a surprise – Marmalade has worked with 3D on mobile apps for longer than anyone else.

SKAPP is now powered by Marmalade for each and every project – building all titles simultaneously for all targeted platforms. SKAPP’s apps are constructed from the ground up using C++ to benefit from Marmalade’s APIs.

Marmalade’s easy-peasy APIs allow SKAPP developers to set their app to run from a single codebase and deploy on each and every supported platform. Cross-platform development should always be a strategic decision, but never a resource decision.

Marmalade helped SKAPP land on BlackBerry OS with negligible effort – saving time, reducing complexity and lowering cost.

Results

Using Marmalade to develop high quality 3D graphics for PlayBook is almost too easy. BuildnBash 3D and Save the Earth! have firmly established themselves as BlackBerry App World favourites through sheer word of mouth with very little marketing or advertising.