08 March 2016
The Corona Labs business app sample project has been updated to support database and input operations. Read the post to learn more details and how you can grab this project and get started beyond games....
15 February 2016
On today's Corona Geek we explored the code and concepts behind implementing explosive mines that wipe out all spawned enemies and we discussed how to handle player deaths when the player object runs into enemies....
08 February 2016
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we talked about the need to for students to learn computer science, automatically generate common types of starter game templates, and controlling the firing pattern of a player's weapons....
25 January 2016
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we continued development of our twin stick shooter game with a look at creating a grid based algorithm for smart enemy spawning using physics sensors....
20 January 2016
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 175, we continued our twin stick shooter game development series with a look at the grid system used to spawn new enemies and determine their starting proximity to the player. We also discussed global variables and functions, and introduced code to save, load, and inspect table data. Here are clips from the Hangout....
11 January 2016
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we continued our twin stick shooter game development series with a look at the grid system used to spawn new enemies and determine their starting proximity to the player. We also discussed global variables and functions, and introduced code to save, load, and inspect table data. Download the project code and make it your own....
28 December 2015
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we started a new game development series on creating a twin stick shooter game modeled after Geometry Wars. Ed Maurina walked us through an overview of the game's design and the key game mechanics we will replicate....
21 December 2015
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we finished development on our top down shooter series with a look at how to add game controller support to desktop games. We examined the difference between analog and digital inputs with a look at working with axis events versus key events. We also shared code snippets for normalizing rotation and splitting strings on specific values....
16 December 2015
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 171, we talked about adding tiled terrain and random enemy types to our top down desktop shooter game. Here are clips from the Hangout....
14 December 2015
On today's Hangout we continued development on our top down desktop shooter game. We added traps and pickups to help us battle the inbound zombie horde. We also added sounds, heads up display elements, and randomly generated bounding forest objects around the perimeter of our world. Download the source code....
