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About Sifteo's SDK

Support Team
posted this on August 23, 2012 11:05 am

A cutting-edge SDK for a game-changing platform

Visit Sifteo.com/developers to download it today!

With the unique form-factor of Sifteo Cubes at your fingertips, you’ll make games unlike anything ever created.

You’ll be amazed at how easy it is to start developing for Sifteo Cubes: you’ll be up and running with just a few lines of code. Our SDK was developed in sync with our entire platform⏤the hardware, the firmware, and the software⏤so everything works together seamlessly. You’ll be using the same tools that our internal team uses to create and test our firmware and games. We think the entire kit is amazing, and we think you will too!

Awesome features of our SDK:

  • We optimize your code for you. The C++ compiler and data compression technology included in our SDK will make your games as small and efficient as possible. We compress everything, from audio and video stored in your game to the wireless data you transmit, so that your games run seamlessly on Sifteo Cubes.
  • Super-responsive input and output. The entire system has been optimized for low-latency input and output, so your games will be incredibly responsive.
  • Clock-cycle accurate simulator platform. Our simulator is so thorough that we use it internally to develop and test our real firmware. It features a cycle-accurate simulation of the hardware present in each Sifteo Cube, as well as plenty of debugging features. It even includes support for Lua scripting so you can automate your testing and analysis.
  • Dedicated platform = predictable performance. With nearly full reign over an embedded (and portable!) platform, your games will do exactly what you expect them to, every time.
  • Smooth, full-color animation. Our graphics engine gives you numerous rendering modes so that you can create the beautiful visuals you want in your games.  
  • Detailed cube movement data. Your games can react to every movement your players make with full access to a live stream of raw, 3-axis accelerometer data, plus neighboring and touch events.

SDK System Requirements:

Windows:

  • 2 GHz processor
  • 2 GB of RAM
  • Graphics card and drivers supporting OpenGL 2.0 or later
  • Windows XP or later, Windows 7 recommended

Mac OS:

  • Core 2 Duo processor or later
  • 2 GB of RAM
  • Mac OS 10.5 or later

Linux:

  • 2 GHz processor
  • 2 GB of RAM
  • Graphics card and drivers supporting OpenGL 2.0 or later
  • Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 recommended

Curious about how this compares to our SDK for original Sifteo Cubes? Click here.
 

Comments

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Danny Engelman

Just saw you at PAX; this what we have been waiting for... looking forward to playing with the SDK!! Great Stuff!

September 01, 2012 05:40 pm
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Thiago Garcia

Hi, I just tried to dowlonad the osx version(http://developers.sifteo.com/sifteosdk/0-9-8--3/osx/download) but i got an 500 error (

We're sorry, but something went wrong.

)

Can you please look at this?

October 02, 2012 05:02 am
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Sarah Crane Newman
Sifteo

Hi Thiago,

Oops! That wasn't supposed to go live yet because, as you saw, it's not working yet. We're finishing polishing and will have it live any day now. 

Cheers,

Sarah

October 02, 2012 11:18 am