22 July 2013
During this week's Corona Geek Hangout we discussed using data in Corona SDK. Dr. Burton walked us through an excellent code example of how to check for and connect to a local database file, and display the returned data in a TableView using SQLite and Corona SDK. ...
15 July 2013
This week we hung out with Dr. Brian Burton, Gerald Bailey, Greg Pugh, Jen Looper, Matthew Chapman, Mohammed Bennouf, Pedro Ramos, and Theo Rushin, Jr. to discuss using Particle Candy in Corona SDK based games. We also discussed a few favorite cloud services, game design, and even touched on using Ruby on Rails with Corona SDK....
01 July 2013
This week we hung out with Nevin Flanagan to discuss his new Corona SDK Hotshot book, which takes you beyond the basics of developing with a much larger look at game development concepts using Lua and Corona SDK. Nevin is credited as a contributor to the World of Warcraft user interface, so he's been using Lua for a long time and has been using Corona SDK for the last several years. We also talked about the recent NOOK Color announcements and Ouya's hot selling game consoles....
24 June 2013
This week we hung out with Thomas Escourrou to discuss app promotion using video trailers. Thomas recently launched Videopixie, an online marketplace that let's you hire talented video professionals to create your promotional videos. Thomas shared some great insights into video creation....
24 June 2013
Foresee, by Borderleap, helps you plan your outdoor activities by intelligently comparing weather data with your preferred conditions. It is also a beautiful app that shows the power of Corona for utilities and business apps. Just launched, it has already hit the #3 paid Productivity app spot!...
20 June 2013
In May, Eric Kinkead gave an excellent talk on app marketing to the Dallas Corona SDK Meetup Group. Eric has had great success with his game Questlord, which is a turn-based Role Playing Game (RPG) in the classic style of the legendary Computer Role Playing Games that defined the genre. Eric shared both his successes and mistakes with marketing Questlord and we got it all on video....
19 June 2013
During Monday's Hangout Ed Maurina showed off a new memory monitoring tool that show realtime information about device memory, display memory, and frame per second while your app is running. The memory meter can be added to your projects with two lines of code and it comes with full documentation....
17 June 2013
This week we hung out with Kimberly Voll to discuss Gender Stereotypes in Gaming. Kimberly is organizing a hackathon July 12-14th at the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, BC. The goal of the event is to broaden perspectives about the role of females characters in games and to bring awareness to the issue....
10 June 2013
This week we hung out with Eric Dyck and Phil Laird from Tap for Tap to talk about their new Corona SDK plugin. Tap for Tap offers app promotion and monetization for app developers looking to market their apps and increase their sales. Tap for Tap is a Featured Partner on the Corona SDK Plugin Directory....
05 June 2013
During this week's Staff Conversations Hangout, we talked with Corona Labs' Core Engineer, Danny Chan, about Corona SDK support for Google Play Game Services. Danny gave some excellent insights into how the gameNetwork API makes support for Google Play Game Services and iOS Game Center seamless....
