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  Cocos Creator is an all in one open source JavaScript game engine and editor built over the Cocos2d-x game libraries.  They just released version 1.0.1, primarily a bug fix release as you can see from the details below.  If you are interested in learning more about Cocos Creator I did a fairly in-depth hands […]

    Along with many others, I don’t really recommend C++ as someone’s first language for various reasons.  Sometimes concrete examples aren’t easy to come by off the tip of your tongue, so I figured the next time I encountered one of those things that make C++ so beginner unfriendly, I would post it.  Not […]

  One of the catches with a web application is finding a place to host it.  If you just have a couple static pages this is pretty simple, there area  few thousand different hosting companies that will serve your pages for a few dollars a month.  However, once you start talking about server side programmability, […]

  This tutorial covers the process of creating and using a spritesheet.  A spritesheet is a collection of individual sprites grouped together into a single image.  I created the spritesheet for this tutorial using TexturePacker.  I already documented the process in this tutorial, the only difference is you set the Data Format to Cocos2D instead […]

Now that we have a cocos2D app being served from NodeJS and being hosted in the cloud we now need to get down to the application itself.   One of the biggest parts of this app is actually the plumbing behind the scenes.  Essentially I need to be able to upload images to a server […]

  Now we are going to look at using Physics in our Spritekit based game.  If you’ve worked with a physics engine before, a lot of this is going to feel very familiar.  One of the key differences from many other engines is SpriteKit handles updating the graphics as well as the physics.  It’s a […]

  Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part   In my previous Phaser tutorial on particles I used a sprite sheet to provide particles in one of the examples, then realized I hadn’t covered how to actually use a sprite sheet yet, oops!  So this tutorial is going to correct that oversight.  A spritesheet ( […]

  Many game engines come with examples to get you started, but most are minimal in scope and actually show pretty horrible programming practices in exchange for being compact, or just out of pure laziness.  Corona has long needed a meaty sample and finally it has one.  The just released Corona Cannon, basically an Angry […]