So far we put all the code in one file. In previous example if we wanted to add more balls we would have to add several lines of code for every ball we add – like creating new bitmap, setting new position, anchor etc. Even the functions
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Gideros Mobile Tutorial 5: Events
So far we only displayed some graphics on the screen, we even animated (not real animation though, just rotation of one bitmap) it but there was no user interaction at all. We had one event in Tutorial 4 but it was not really explained in details what it does.
Events and addEventListener
With events we handle
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Gideros Mobile Tutorial 4: Graphics
Textures, bitmaps and sprites
Most of the games use graphics so let’s learn how to display it on the screen and apply some transformations to it. You will also meet 3 new object types: textures, bitmaps and sprites.
Texture – class that is used to load an image file. You can’t really do much with […]
Gideros Mobile Tutorial 3: Shapes
It’s nice to have something else on the screen than just text. Let’s try to draw some shapes. I will leave out step-by-step explanation on how to add files to projects, how to start Gideros Player etc because this was covered in previous tutorials.
Drawing Shapes
You can draw primitive shapes with Gideros on the
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Gideros Mobile Tutorial 2: “Hello World”
Hello World
Every tutorial starts with “Hello World” and who am I to break this tradition? 🙂 Please keep in mind that I will not be teaching Lua language, concepts of Objects, functions etc. I am assuming that you are a developer who knows at least one language and have a basic understanding of how
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Gideros Mobile Tutorial 1: Installation and interface
Install Gideros Mobile
This is fairly simple: go to Gideros Mobile website and download SDK then run setup. It’s just few “Next” clicks. After you are done it is best to go to their registration form and register for free. This way you will be able to export and build
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Gideros Mobile Tutorial : Mobile Game Development
Why am I learning Mobile Game Development?
I always enjoyed making games on C64 and Amiga (AMOS Professional was great!) when I was a kid. Platformers and turn-based RPG games. It is now different time and smartphone games are all the rage. I always wanted to try making some simple mobile game but the first
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