I’m working on a game that’s a remake of an Apple II game that was originally published in 1984. While we have 2013-era sprites in the game, we also allow the user to switch to Retro Mode where we use the original 1984 game graphics. We also wanted the font to change and found a [...]
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I don’t actually remember the first platformer I ever programmed, but I don’t think it was ever published. I’m about to fix that thanks to a jump-start I got while competing in the 48-hour GIG Jam put on by Glitch Games. The GIG Jam started on a Friday afternoon (Alaska time) and the theme was [...]
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Corona Labs announced a price hike today for the Pro version of Corona SDK framework — instead of $350 a year for iOS and Android, it’s going to be $600 a year. Thwack! Like a 2×4 upside the head. That was my first reaction. However… …they also announced Corona SDK Starter edition, which is just [...]
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Looks like TorquePowered is shutting down. The news came out of the blue for the employees and at this point there are more questions than answers about what’s happening. Even though I never created a full game with Torque Game Builder, I always intended to do that. It was the best tool I’d found for [...]
Read MoreLast week Apple announced they’ll be opening an online store for Mac apps just like they have the “regular” app store for iOS apps. On the surface I think this is good news — it will make it fairly easy to get your software in front of a large group of people. But I’m wondering [...]
Read MoreThis new video from the folks at Ansca Mobile shows what can be done in 8-minutes using the Corona Game Edition SDK: http://blog.anscamobile.com/2010/10/make-a-game-in-8-minutes-with-corona/ That simple example would have taken a LOT of code in Objective-C.
Read MoreOkay, I finally stopped using the trial version of Corona SDK (Game Edition) and paid for my first year subscription. I’m now officially a paying customer, and I feel it was one of the best pieces of “potential” I’ve purchased in a long time. Just like ideas, development environments are worthless without implementation, so that’s [...]
Read MoreI’ve mentioned the Corona SDK as a way to create iPhone (and Android) apps without going the whole Objective-C route. They also have a “Game Edition” that includes the Box2D physics engine that is just way cool. You know how the boards, rocks, etc., all fall down in Angry Birds? That’s the kind of stuff [...]
Read MoreTook some time a couple days ago to spec out a sidescroller for the iPhone called, Zombies At My Poodle. At this point I see it as a Commander Keen-type game, although I’m still mulling over some different options. One thing I’m thinking about is writing a book of the same name and have it [...]
Read MoreUsing the Coffee demo on Ansca Mobile’s blog I put together a demo showing how to switch from one screen to another, for example, switch from the play screen to a high score screen and back again. To make it work you’ll need a couple button graphics and the ui.lua file from that Coffee demo. [...]
Read MoreA couple days ago I downloaded the Corona SDK from Ansca Mobile and have been playing with the 30-day trial version. And I’m really, really impressed with it. So much so that I’m ditching my Torque plans for now. I had been thinking to get “good” with Torque Game Builder for 2D games and then [...]
Read MoreJust came across mention of an iPhone dev tool called Corona that looks very cool. iOS and Android apps and games with no Objective-C coding. It uses Lua as the scripting engine. I just downloaded the 30-day trial and will report back when I know more about it.
Read More adventure gameMy plan of action for this game is as follows: Finish the bare-bones documentation. That’s the stuff I’ve been putting up here about objects, NPCs, events, etc. Create a simple authoring tool. I’ll probably use REALbasic and SQLite to crank that out, but I’m also thinking about doing it with PHP and MySQL. Mainly because [...]
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