How to Fill a Picker Wheel from a SQLite Database in Corona SDK – Tutorial

Posted by Dr. Burton on December 16, 2018 in Android, Corona, iPad, iPhone, Kindle Fire, Lua, Mobile, Tutorials | ∞

Last semester I had a group of students using Corona SDK who were using a database to list local establishments. They needed a way to easily display the list of locations in the SQLite database to the application.While I had discussed the possibility of reading from a database and loading a picker-wheel in the textbooks […]

Tags: Corona SDK, database, how do I load a pickerwheel from sqlite, how do to use picker wheel with database, mobile app development, picker-wheel, Pickerwheel, sqlite, widgets

Why switch to Amazon Lumberyard?

Posted by Dr. Burton on April 28, 2017 in Cloud Computing, Game Development, Lumberyard, Mobile | ∞

Recently I was asked why I had selected Amazon Lumberyard over Unity, Unreal or other 3D game engines. There are several reasons I chose to go with Lumberyard. Cost: Unity: I had been using/teaching Unity for years (I was one of the recipients of the Unity Education Grant in 2010). It is fairly […]

Tags: Amazon Lumberyard, customer-centric, UDK, Unity, Unreal

Learning Lua

Posted by Dr. Burton on July 1, 2016 in Corona, Lumberyard, Mobile, Tutorials | ∞

The Lua scripting language has been rapidly gaining in popularity over the last several years. It is now the core of many popular tools including (but not limited to) Corona SDK, Amazon Lumberyard, Autodesk Stingray, and WoW. As I have been preparing for my classes, I recognized that a series of tutorials in the Lua […]

8 Game Engines for your Next Project

Posted by Dr. Burton on March 27, 2016 in Corona, Game Development, Lumberyard, Mobile, Unity3D | ∞

So you want to make that killer game ?! If you want to jump into making the game, then you don’t want to spend time writing the engine (rendering, physics, sound, etc). Here are a few top picks in game engines: Cocos2D Cocos2D is an open source (free) engine (LGPL MIT license) available for developing […]

Tags: 2D Game Engines, 3D Game Engines, Cocos-2d, Corona, Game Development Engines, Lumberyard, Marmalade, Shiva, Torque, Unity, Unreal

New Books Coming Soon!!

Posted by Dr. Burton on March 27, 2016 in Cloud Computing, Corona, Education, Game Development, Lumberyard, Mobile | ∞

We have been working on several new textbooks here a Burtons Media Group. Isometric Game Development with Corona SDK (tentative title) is a new, intermediate level book that shows how to create isometric-style games using the Corona SDK. Game Development Fundamentals: Lumberyard & Blender (tentative title) is a new series on developing games using Amazon […]

Tags: Amazon Lumberyard, Corona SDK, Isometric, Lua