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Posted by Jay on April 3, 2012 | 2 Comments Making Money with Mobile Apps and Ga... Someone recently asked me if the games and apps I’ve published are making money. Nope. Not yet, anyway. But hope springs eternal, and even if I had to give my games away I’d still make them. Maybe just not...
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Posted by Jay on March 22, 2012 | 5 Comments Billions of Stars Everybody has to start somewhere and if you had to write code that was perfect none of us would be developing mobile games. Or any other kind of software, for that matter. Fortunately, the most important thing is to...
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Posted by Jay on December 31, 2011 | 3 Comments Corona SDK for Business Apps –... Everybody (with at least half a brain) knows Corona SDK is an awesome game development tool for 2D games. But when someone needs to put together a business app they start looking around at other tools because the game...
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Posted by Jay on December 4, 2011 | 8 Comments Horse Crazy! – The Continuing ... In early 2011 I came up with an idea for an app for girls that were crazy about horses. In the app you would be able to choose your favorite horse, use brushes and such to groom it, select different pieces of tack for...
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Posted by Jay on October 7, 2011 | 6 Comments Finding Free (or Cheap) Game Artwork... Unless you’re lucky enough to have the skill of a coder and the talent of an artist (d@$# you!) you’re going to have to find your game art somewhere else than under your pen. While hiring an artist to create...
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Posted by Jay on August 8, 2011 | No Comments Shortcuts Are Not Your Friend I’m wrapping up work on Roly-Polies HD, a physics-based game for the iPad, and the last thing I needed to do was to rearrange the levels. There are 60 levels in the game and when I created them I didn’t...
Posted by Jay on Apr 3, 2012
Someone recently asked me if the games and apps I’ve published are making money.
Nope.
Not yet, anyway.
But hope springs eternal, and even if I had to give my games away I’d still make them. Maybe just not with so much intensity.
Sidebar: I do make a living from writing apps, but at this point it’s limited to desktop-based tools, not mobile games or apps....
Someone recently asked me if the games and apps I’ve published are making money.
Nope.
Not yet, anyway.
But hope springs eternal, and even if I had to give my games away I’d still make them. Maybe just not with so much intensity.
Sidebar: I do make a living from writing apps, but at this point it’s limited to desktop-based tools, not mobile games or apps....
Posted by Jay on Mar 22, 2012
Everybody has to start somewhere and if you had to write code that was perfect none of us would be developing mobile games. Or any other kind of software, for that matter.
Fortunately, the most important thing is to WRITE SOME CODE and worry about making it perfect later. And while I won’t claim the code in this Corona SDK tutorial is perfect, it is a better way to handle...
Everybody has to start somewhere and if you had to write code that was perfect none of us would be developing mobile games. Or any other kind of software, for that matter.
Fortunately, the most important thing is to WRITE SOME CODE and worry about making it perfect later. And while I won’t claim the code in this Corona SDK tutorial is perfect, it is a better way to handle...
Posted by Jay on Feb 4, 2012
Sorry the Graphic Layout Tool code for Corona SDK was moved here: Graphic Layout Tool – click to see it.
Posted by Jay on Jan 4, 2012
In getting ready to update Horse Crazy!, the “most reviled app in the world”, I needed to see if a column existed in the database. I want people to be able to name their horses and so I needed a column named ‘name” in the horses table.
While I could just copy in the new database with all needed columns, that would blow away any changes people had made when...
Posted by Jay on Dec 31, 2011
Everybody (with at least half a brain) knows Corona SDK is an awesome game development tool for 2D games. But when someone needs to put together a business app they start looking around at other tools because the game use of Corona SDK kind of overshadows everything else.
And while I will admit to being a reluctant proponent (in the recent past) of using Corona for business apps,...
Everybody (with at least half a brain) knows Corona SDK is an awesome game development tool for 2D games. But when someone needs to put together a business app they start looking around at other tools because the game use of Corona SDK kind of overshadows everything else.
And while I will admit to being a reluctant proponent (in the recent past) of using Corona for business apps,...
Posted by Jay on Dec 8, 2011
I’ve made no secret of the fact that I mostly don’t care about the Android market — I’m a Mac zealot and iOS fanboi (but one of the more pleasant fanbois). But I decided I’d publish for Amazon’s Kindle Fire because it’s just one device — and was selling more copies than most (all?) other Android tablets combined.
It was very easy to...
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