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....
23 December 2015
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 172, we talked about adding traps and pickups to our top down shooter game to help us battle the inbound zombie horde. We also added sounds, heads up display elements, and randomly generated bounding forest objects around the perimeter of our world. Here are clips from the Hangout....
21 December 2015
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we finished development on our top down shooter series with a look at how to add game controller support to desktop games. 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....
16 December 2015
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 171, we talked about adding tiled terrain and random enemy types to our top down desktop shooter game. Here are clips from the Hangout....
14 December 2015
On today's Hangout we continued development on our top down desktop shooter game. We added traps and pickups to help us battle the inbound zombie horde. We also added sounds, heads up display elements, and randomly generated bounding forest objects around the perimeter of our world. Download the source code....
09 December 2015
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 170, we talked about Perk acquiring Corona Labs and we continued our desktop game development series with a follow up discussion to last week’s exploration of vector math calculations for firing arrows at zombies. Here are clips from the Hangout....
07 December 2015
On today's Hangout we continued our desktop game development series. We talked about the process of adding tiled background images, make some zombies smarter than others, and randomizing enemy distribution across levels. Download source code for the demo....
02 December 2015
Last week on Corona Geek Hangout 169, we continued develop on our top down desktop shooter game with a look how to use vector math for aiming and calculating the magnitude of our zombie killing arrows. We also looked at a refined version of our simple pathfinding code. Here are clips from the Hangout....
30 November 2015
On today's Corona Geek Hangout we talked about Corona Labs being acquired by Perk and we continued our desktop game development series with a follow up discussion to last week's exploration of vector math calculations for firing arrows at zombies. Links are in the show notes....
