New Books Coming Soon!!
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 […]
Corona SDK Graphics 2.0: Going 2.5D
I can’t tell you how excited I was when I learned that Corona would support 2.5D or Isometric game development. Now that the new graphics engine is available, I figured I would jump into it and start making games! Of course there is a learning curve to making games. The first thing I wanted to […]
Mobile App Development books on Corona SDK Discount for January 2013
We all make New Year’s Resolutions (okay, most of us make New Year’s Resolutions). I always do my best to keep mine, which is to publish several more apps and finish writing a couple textbooks (the losing a few pounds is a carry-over from last year, so it doesn’t count) . If you have made […]
How to Download JSON data from MySQL Using Corona SDK
A question that I am regularly ask is how to get data from a remote server (usually stored in a database) to a mobile app. I wrestled with how best to present this information, whether it should be a series, how many different methods I should include, so many variations that the project was never […]
How Do I Get Started in App Development with Corona?
I was recently asked, “What does it take to get started with mobile app development using Corona SDK?” in one of my classes. Here is my response: It will depend on your development goals. If your goal is to develop for iOS (iPhone & iPad), then you will eventually need xCode for submitting the app […]
10 Middleware Tools for Creating MMO Games
Update: I have added several new middleware/back-end frameworks to the end of this article. Background If you haven’t figured it out yet, I usually have a lot of projects going on concurrently. Several of my current projects involves creating an MMO (massive multi-player online) or needs a cloud-based environment for educational purposes (part of my […]
Learn Mobile Game Development with CoronaSDK in Austin Texas
A friend of my, Raul Delgado, will be offering 1 day classes in mobile game development in Austin, Texas. This is a great opportunity to learn the basics of the mobile game development process with an experienced instructor. Raul will be using excerpts from my book “Mobile App Development with Corona: Getting Started” which you […]
Corona Ambassador
Nope, I don’t get a sweet ride, get to tear-up traffic tickets, or give long wind speeches at the U.N. I don’t get free trips to exotic locations so that I can perform “fact-finding.” But I do get to use one of the best tools out there for making cross-platform mobile apps! I received my […]
Learn Mobile Application Development Textbook
Texas has recently added Mobile Application Development to the approved curriculum for high school students beginning in the academic year 2012-2013. This is a very exciting development for high school students in Texas and, assuming other states follow suit, across the U.S. and potentially the world (okay, yes, I like to think big!). After carefully […]