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02 March 2015

During today's Hangout, Walter Luh joined us to discuss the recent announcement that Corona is now free and will be adding desktop support for OSX and Win32. We also continued our game design series by writing code to create walls in our endless runner game. Creating walls at a 45 degree angle that can be used for collision detection takes a little bit of 2D match, but Ed Maurina from Roaming Gamer, LLC. took us through the code we needed to know....


Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts

27 February 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....


From the Forum

23 February 2015

During last week’s Hangout we started a new game design series with a focus on breaking down the various elements and mechanics of an existing endless runner game. This week we continued the conversation with a look at how the project is set up and what bits and pieces are required before we start laying down lines of code....


Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts

20 February 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....


From the Forum

16 February 2015

During last week’s Hangout we wrapped up our series on using Composer Library with a look at creating custom Composer Library transitions. This week we started a new series on game mechanics with a focus on breaking down the various elements and mechanics of an existing endless runner game. We also spent time discussing the Transition Library and how it can be used to add motion to your apps....


Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts

13 February 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....


From the Forum

10 February 2015

Coroutines, one of Lua's key features, are quite powerful and give you the ability to start and stop blocks of code as needed. From advanced timer manipulation to creating state machines, coroutines give you greater control over when parts of your code execute. This tutorial touches on just a few of their many uses, in particular those which play to Corona's own strengths....


Guest Bloggers, Tutorials, Tips and Demos

09 February 2015

During last week’s Hangout we took a break from our Composer Library series to talk with Corona Ambassador, Jason Schroeder about his Progress Ring module and his Color Picker module. During this week’s Hangout we wrapped up our Composer Library discussion with a look at creating custom Composer Library transitions and we revisited tips for unloading modules with adding sprites into Composer scenes....


Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts