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 […]
Developing Games with Unity3D – Using Unity Remote
Recently I have co-authored several eTextbooks with my long-time friend (and partner in crime) Jeff Huff. These textbooks teach the entire pipeline of developing a game from start to publication. Each one covers the 3D modeling, texturing, importing, and programming for the game. Our goal is to keep them on just one topic and affordable […]
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 […]
Kwik for Photoshop Makes Mobile App Easy with Corona SDK
Kwik is an Adobe Photoshop plugin that allows you to add animation, videos, sounds, rollover effects, buttons, and much more, all in Photoshop and export the results as a finished mobile app. This product is what the artists have been waiting for! Now they can create the complete app in Photoshop with no coding (though […]
LevelHelper and SpriteHelper for Corona Game Development
“Wow!” was my first thought when I opened up LevelHelper. After playing with level helper for just a few minutes, I began to get seriously excited about the next sprite based game that I would be making (LevelHelper will be a featured app in my next book on Game Development with Corona). Combined with SpriteHelper, […]
Texture Packer for Corona
Texture Packer takes your sprites and packs them, with incredible results! It is capable of dramatically reducing your file size and packing more sprites into a single sheet. Texture Packer also will perform trimming, removing excess transparent pixels from the borders of your sprites. If you’re working with sprites for your games, don’t pass up […]
Game Creation with Unity – Part 4
In part 1 of this tutorial we started a new Unity 3D project to create a space game with the goal of shooting asteroids. In part 2, we added the controls to our player/ship so that it can move within the environment as well as the objects that will become our asteroids and bullets. In […]
Creating Android games with Unity
NOTE: This tutorial was developed using Unity3D V.3. I have not tested it with the latest version of Unity. I hope to create a new version of this tutorial in the near future taking advantage of the latest Unity 3D features. I’ve had a lot of requests for tutorials on game creation for the Android […]
Game Creation with Unity – Part 2
Part 2 of a series of tutorials showing how to create a simple 3D space shooting game with the Unity 3D game engine for web deployment.
Game Creation with Unity3D – part 1
Part 1 of a series of tutorials showing how to create a simple 3D space shooting game with the Unity 3D game engine for web deployment.