03 November 2016
Introducing “Match Three Space RPG” modular game template
Looking for a great example of how to organize your project into reusable modules? Check out this free high-quality game template to get started....
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13 September 2016
Corona Geek #193 – Game Center, Touch ID, VLC plugins and more
On this week's Corona Geek podcast we looked at plugins for Game Center, Google Play Games Services, Touch ID, Luaproc, Serialize, and VLC. We also mentioned sample code for a NotTetris game, along with source code for a tic-tac-toe game using GPGS, and one for GameKit....
08 March 2016
Updated: New features added to the Business App sample
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....
06 January 2016
Hangout Highlights – Geometry Wars Twin Stick Shooter Game Overview
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 174, we started a new game development series on creating a twin stick shooter game modeled after Geometry Wars. We stepped through an overview of the game’s design and the key game mechanics we will replicate in our own twin stick shooter. Here are clips from the hangout....
09 November 2015
Corona Geek #167 – Creating Cameras In Desktop Games
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we dove into the concepts and code behind creating cameras that follow the player around the world. We learned how to make the background appear to move while keeping the player in the same place. We started with a look at the full code for manually creating cameras and then we looked at using a camera module to make our code more readable....
04 November 2015
Hangout Highlights – Using Third Party Assets In Desktop Games
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 165, we continued our desktop game development series by adding a player, spawning enemies, and adding sprite animations to a top down shooter game. We also looked at using third party art in our game and how that art affected our overall game design and user input strategy. Here are clips from the Hangout....
01 April 2015
Open Source Plugins and (coming soon) Corona Store
At the end of January, I talked about wanting to make plugins more open. Today, we're doing two things to make that happen....
14 July 2014
Corona Geek #98 – Learning Mobile Application and Game Development with Corona SDK
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout, Dr. Brian Burton walked walk us through four code examples from his recently released Corona SDK book, "Learning Mobile Application and Game Development with Corona SDK". We'll also looked at code snippets from Corona's SampleCode folder....
