Corona Geek

19 August 2015

Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 154, Steven Johnson from Xibalba Studios shared his code for creating a custom 2D shadows shader example and Roaming Gamer’s, Ed Maurina showed us how to simulate and use gravity in a game similar to They Need To Be Fed 3. Download the project source code to follow along with the conversation. If you missed the Hangout, here are clips to help you catch up. Watch the entire conversation, or just the parts that interest you most. Part 1 - 2D Shadows Example Overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1KW2MaIcg Part 2 - 2D Shadows Example Code https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHp8XMLeoWw Part 3 - They Need To Be...


Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts

17 August 2015

Today, we talked with special guest Todd Porter, CEO of BoardCraft about creating 3D printed game pieces. We also continued our gravity game discussion with a look at how to set up our world using layers, how to enable multitouch, and how to capture key inputs on Windows and OS X. The project code and graphics have been updated since last week, so be sure to download the updated source code. ...


Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts

12 August 2015

Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 153, Steven Johnson highlighted some of the issues related to using exponentially increasing numbers to create custom shader effects. We looked the visual representation of these “numerical issues” and talked about how to overcome hardware limitations to achieve device level precision. Here are clips from the Hangout....


Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts

05 August 2015

Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 152, Ed Maurina took us through the basics of social media integration using the Facebook plugin. We looked at logging in, requesting Facebook permissions, and posting updates to the user's timeline. We also discussed briefly, how to create a Facebook app with a highlight on the differences between website apps, and mobile apps. If you missed the Hangout, here are clips to help you catch up. Watch the entire conversation, or just the parts that interest you most. Part 1 - Community Announcements https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2zk0jich78 Part 2 - Social Sharing Options https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usB3Ff6mOxA Part 3 - Twitter Plugin Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0FelSUP8OI Part 4 - Social...


Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts

03 August 2015

Today, Steven Johnson of led us through part 4 of our ongoing discussion on creating custom shader effects. During the Hangout Steven highlighted some of the exponential numerical issues surrounding shader math. We looked at a few visual representations of these “numerical issues” and talked about how to overcome hardware limitations to achieve device level precision....


Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts

22 July 2015

Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 150, Steven Johnson introduced us to creating custom vertex shaders effects in Corona SDK. We also looked at some shader code examples to see the effects in action and we revealed a tip for using wireframe mode with display.setDrawMode to see the points of a polygon in a vertex shader example. Here are the clips from the Hangout. ...


Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts