13 April 2015
During last week’s Hangout we started a brand new memory matching game development series. This week we answered community questions and shared important consulting tips for anyone considering developing apps on the side for clients....
10 April 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 April 2015
Learn how Bonfire Media used CoronaCards to create "Aero Launcher," an enhanced launcher app for Android which has received almost 1,000,000 downloads....
08 April 2015
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 135, we finished our endless runner game series by combining an emitter object with the CBEffects library to get the custom particle effects we wanted. We also dropped in splash, play, and restart scenes to the game using Corona's Composer library and added audio for button push sounds and player collisions with walls. Here's a summary of Hangout clips. Download the full source code to see the finished project....
07 April 2015
In this tutorial, learn how to position and move objects on a board for games like chess, checkers, and other grid-based games....
06 April 2015
During last week’s Hangout we wrapped up our endless runner game development series by adding some final particle effect tweaks, dropping in Composer scenes, and adding collision audio. This week we are starting a brand new game development series that will give us a chance to understand how to programmatically add display objects in a grid, randomly assign images to be displayed, match touched items, and more. Download the code and follow along each week....
03 April 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....
01 April 2015
At the end of January, I talked about wanting to make plugins more open. Today, we're doing two things to make that happen....
01 April 2015
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 134, we continued working on our endless runner game by adding a third party particle library to spice up the look and feel of the player's movement. We also added code to track the player's progress and keep score as the player successfully avoids treacherous hallway corners. Here are video clips from the session....
30 March 2015
During last week’s Hangout we swapped out our particle effects library, added code to track player progress, and add a HUD for scoring and speed. This week we added a few more particle effect enhancements, dropped in code to support Composer scenes, and made sure that our audio worked....
