Blog

16 August 2013

Laura Tallardy is a children's app developer who has been working with Corona SDK since January 2012. She's created six apps for kids on iOS and Android - four solo and two with developer Scott Adelman. Their first app, Fairy Tale Games: Mermaid Princess Puzzles won Corona's App of the Week and November 2012 App of the Month awards, and their second app, Flower Ballet Fairies: Fairy Ballerina Puzzles, was released spring 2013. Laura's most recent solo app, Ballet Fashion Show, was released in 21 languages with over 15,000 downloads, and she's hard at work with...


Guest Bloggers

15 August 2013

Christof Wegmann is founder and CTO of Exit Games, provider of Photon Cloud, the #1 service for cross-platform real-time multiplayer game development. Christof has 13+ years experience in providing services and platforms for mobile devices and founded Exit Games in 2004 with the goal of forming a leading company for multiplayer services. Photon Cloud is a cross-platform network engine and software as a service (SaaS) for real-time multiplayer games and applications. As the latest Corona Plugin partner, the Photon Cloud plugin is available for all Corona SDK developers. For more information, please see the Photon Cloud plugin documentation....


Guest Bloggers

14 August 2013

Shawn Grimes has been a mobile app developer since 2008. He is the Co-founder of the Baltimore Mobile meetup group and in 2012, he joined Digital Harbor Foundation as the Director of Technology where he works with youth to teach them software development and other technology skills. In his spare time, Shawn and his wife run Campfire Apps, making apps for young children and families. He is a co-author of the book, iOS 6 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach. You can follow him on twitter: @shawng. In July 2013, Shawn taught a 2-week mobile game development camp...


Guest Bloggers

14 August 2013

During Monday's Corona Geek Hangout, Dr. Brian Burton and Ed Maurina shared some great tips for moving objects around using Corona SDK's built in physics engine versus a straight transition. One method allows objects to continue to be affected by physics while the other does not. They also discussed how you could use both methods together to come up with some interesting results....


Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts

12 August 2013

This week we walked through part two of the game code from That’s So Panda’s game tutorial series. The tutorial covers many game dynamics like the use of the physics engine, collision detection, spawning enemies, D-Pad implementation, score keeping, and health meter implementation. Be sure to watch part one of this two part series. In part one we touched on overall game design concepts like story development....


Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts

05 August 2013

This week we walked through game code from That's So Panda's game tutorial series. The tutorial covers many game dynamics like the use of the physics engine, collision detection, spawning enemies, D-Pad implementation, score keeping, and health meter implementation. We also touched on overall game design concepts like story development. This week's hangout is part one of a two part series....


Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts