08 February 2016
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we talked about the need to for students to learn computer science, automatically generate common types of starter game templates, and controlling the firing pattern of a player's weapons....
04 February 2016
On last night's Corona Geek After Dark, we discussed Apple TV game controllers, Facebook Audience Network oddities, speaker session ideas for CoronaCon and Jason Schroeder demoed his Stripe plugin....
01 February 2016
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we continued development of our twin stick shooter game with a look at using object caching to optimize performance when creating and destroying a large number of objects....
25 January 2016
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we continued development of our twin stick shooter game with a look at creating a grid based algorithm for smart enemy spawning using physics sensors....
20 January 2016
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 175, we continued our twin stick shooter game development series with a look at the grid system used to spawn new enemies and determine their starting proximity to the player. We also discussed global variables and functions, and introduced code to save, load, and inspect table data. Here are clips from the Hangout....
18 January 2016
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we continued our twin stick shooter game development series with a look at creating heads up displays (HUDs) using texture wrapping, repeating fills, and image scaling. We also explored using a shuffle bag technique for randomizing items to ensure you select unique items from a given collection of objects....
11 January 2016
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we continued our twin stick shooter game development series with a look at the grid system used to spawn new enemies and determine their starting proximity to the player. We also discussed global variables and functions, and introduced code to save, load, and inspect table data. Download the project code and make it your own....
06 January 2016
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 174, we started a new game development series on creating a twin stick shooter game modeled after Geometry Wars. We stepped through an overview of the game’s design and the key game mechanics we will replicate in our own twin stick shooter. Here are clips from the hangout....
29 December 2015
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 173, we talked about adding game controller support to our top down desktop shooter game. We examined the difference between analog and digital inputs with a look at working with axis events versus key events. We also shared code snippets for normalizing rotation and splitting strings on specific values. Here are clips from the Hangout....
28 December 2015
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we started a new game development series on creating a twin stick shooter game modeled after Geometry Wars. Ed Maurina walked us through an overview of the game's design and the key game mechanics we will replicate....
