One method of animating, moving, and timing things in games is to programmatically change certain values on each frame update. However, If the frame rate fluctuates, the speed of this action may seem inconsistent to the player. To compensate for this, you can use “delta time,” a process which helps ensure that your game speed appears consistent on all devices and during processor-intensive periods. Read further to learn how delta time can be implemented in Corona.
Last week, Apple announced iOS7 Beta at WWDC. A lot of cool stuff was shown. The interesting thing is that a lot of the “flat” UI that was demonstrated was exactly the kind of thing we saw some of you already creating using Corona’s graphics system.
This week we hung out with Kimberly Voll to discuss Gender Stereotypes in Gaming. Kimberly is organizing a hackathon July 12-14th at the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, BC. The goal of the event is to broaden perspectives about the role of females characters in games and to bring awareness to the issue.
Hungry Oni is the work of a British ex-Lionhead Studios game designer, Andrzej Zamoyski, and an Indonesian artist/illustrator, Ferdi Trihadi. The game features bold graphics, spunky audio and amusing gameplay and was even graced with a ‘New and Noteworthy’ feature in the App Store.
Kimberly Voll holds a PhD in computer science and is a professor of software engineering and digital media at the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, Canada. Her specialities include artificial intelligence, user experience, and game design. Passionate about game development, Kim runs Full Indie, the local independent games meetup, as well as the Vancouver Global Game Jam. On the side, Kim is a part-time graphic designer, indie developer, and writer.
In July, Corona Labs is sponsoring iamagamer, a jam organized by Kimberly that’s based on creating strong, female lead characters in games. Register for iamagamer and support Kimberly’s mission of challenging the industry’s views on strong, female protagonists.
Offer Yehudai is President and Co-Founder of Inneractive. Offer drives the product vision of Inneractive’s ad mediation platform and is responsible for the company’s relationships with developers and publishers. Offer has a deep background in mobile, internet and media and manages business development, product development and global scale projects.
Hearing game legends John Romero and Brenda Brathwaite tell us why Corona is awesome for mobile app development was inspiring. So in that spirit, here are the top 10 reasons why Corona is a no-brainer for native app development…
Today’s tutorial walks you through Corona SDK’s new OpenSSL plugin. Using this, you can easily encrypt and decrypt data in just a few lines of code. Check out the tutorial to learn how to utilize this plugin in your apps.
Today, we had some very special guests visit the Corona office: game legends John Romero and Brenda Romero.
It was really inspiring to meet them. Together, they’ve had a profound influence on the industry that still reverberates today. John designed such seminal games as Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake, and co-founded id Software which holds a near mythical place in the pantheon of game development.
