23 September 2015
Last week we continued development on our "Monsters Need Coins" game. Ed Maurina walked us through adding static missile shooting turrets to the game, along with adding homing missiles that follow the player around the platforms. We discussed the vector math involved to accomplish this and looked at the code for adding the turrets. Here are clips from the Hangout....
21 September 2015
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we continued our game development discussion with a homing turret code example . We turned regular "dumb" missiles into homing missile that followed the target after the projectiles are launched from the turret. Download the code for full details....
18 September 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....
17 September 2015
NOTE: This tutorial has been replaced by the Managing App Transport Security guide. ...
16 September 2015
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 158, we continued development on our "Monsters Need Coins" game. Ed Maurina walked us through code for creating platforms, monsters, spikes, and coins. We also looked at code for reloading levels when the player runs into spikes. Here are clips from the discussion....
15 September 2015
We have a few exciting new plugins available on the Corona Store: Spiral Code Studio hits us yet again with LED flashlight control, vibration control, and text to speech. Please visit the store to activate plugins, or to submit a plugin yourself. 1. Flashlight By Spiral Code Studio The Flashlight plugin provides access to the flash LED light source, which can be used as a torch. This works on Android and iOS. Using it is quite simple: [crayon-5f8e11cc17615037409505/] Check it out on the Corona Store. 2. Vibrator By Spiral Code Studio The Vibrator plugin provides you a fine control over vibration ability of Android devices. iOS devices, unfortunately, lack such...
14 September 2015
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we continued our game development discussion by adding turrets that shoot at the player. We also talked about the necessary vector math and concepts around firing bullets in the correct direction. Download the updated project....
12 September 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....
09 September 2015
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 157, we talked with special guests Rob and Simon from Laser Dog about Hopiko, their latest action packed mobile game. We also discussed their plans for publishing Win32 and OS X desktop games with controller support. 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 - Laser Dog Team Overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sc49xVlg5Y Part 2 - Matching Music To Game Play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tBw1fDfFW8 Part 3 - Updating Games Versus Creating New Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHhNrivJCog Part 4 - Creating Game Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BTUiY1K_XU Part 5 - App Promotion - Launching HoPiKo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JqDXLioeOk Part...
08 September 2015
In this tutorial, learn how to partially fill an object with color for various user interface elements in your projects....
