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....
08 January 2016
Welcome to the latest installment of From the Forum. In this series, guest blogger Alex Jackson highlights outstanding threads from the Corona Forum. The goal is to bring attention to the most captivating, interesting, and thought-provoking discussions taking place in our very own backyard....
06 January 2016
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....
01 January 2016
Welcome to the latest installment of From the Forum. In this series, guest blogger Alex Jackson highlights outstanding threads from the Corona Forum. The goal is to bring attention to the most captivating, interesting, and thought-provoking discussions taking place in our very own backyard....
29 December 2015
2015 was a busy year for Corona Labs! As a company and a community, we worked together to bring about some major accomplishments. Read further to look at the year in review....
29 December 2015
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 173, we talked about adding game controller support to our top down desktop shooter game. 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. Here are clips from the Hangout....
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....
26 December 2015
Welcome to the latest installment of From the Forum. In this series, guest blogger Alex Jackson highlights outstanding threads from the Corona Forum. The goal is to bring attention to the most captivating, interesting, and thought-provoking discussions taking place in our very own backyard....
23 December 2015
Today we are happy to share that Roj Niyogi, founder and President of Perk.com, has been appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer of Corona Labs Inc. Mr. Niyogi will lead Corona Labs as a division of Perk.com....
23 December 2015
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 172, we talked about adding traps and pickups to our top down shooter game 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. Here are clips from the Hangout....
