As of right now we have exactly nothing, so anything is an improvement.  Let’s start our game journey off with a bang… or at least a window.  Without further ado, some code:   screenWidth = MOAIEnvironment.screenWidth screenHeight = MOAIEnvironment.screenHeight print("Starting up on:" .. MOAIEnvironment.osBrand .. " version:" .. MOAIEnvironment.osVersion) if screenWidth == nil then […]

  The following is a guide on how to download and configure IntelliJ IDEA for use with MOAI/LUA development.  It is based heavily on information found in this thread, although it goes into a great deal more detail and uses the most recent versions as of 8/22/2012.   First and foremost, go and download IntelliJ […]

  SDK is downloaded and installed.  For some bizarre reason, you need to sign up before downloading the SDK ( which… is freely available in source code form on Github… ).  Once you’ve signed up and signed in, head over to https://dashboard.moaicloud.com/download.php and download it.  Personally I am using the August developer snapshot, because apparently, […]

  Moai is one of those projects that has been drawing my interest for a very long time.  If you have never heard of it, Moai is an open source, cross-platform game engine written in C++ but scripted using LUA.  The most obvious comparison that comes to mind is to think of Moai as a […]

  Today Sony released more information about the upcoming PlayStation Mobile launch.  If you have never heard of it, PlayStation Mobile is a development platform for creating games on the PlayStation Vita as well as a number of Android based devices.  Originally that list included mostly just Sony’s line of Android devices but that is […]

  This post over on the gamedev forums at reddit caught my eye.  User @Mattrix has released a framework for creating 2D games using Unity with code only.  This effectively turns Unity in to a runtime only; it makes almost zero use of the tools provide with Unity and in many cases completely re-invents things […]

  Just a quick note that all of the tutorials in the Cocos2D-HTML5 series have now been updated (text, downloads and source) to the most recent ( and hopefully stable ) API level.  Expect news of a beta release shortly.     If you spot any mistakes, please let me know!     Cocos2D-x HTML5 […]

  This tutorial is going to look at the basics of sprites and an area that initially confuses many people ( myself included! ), the positioning system used by Cocos2D.  I am going to build off the code we wrote in Tutorial 2, with a few minor changes.  First thing you need to do is […]

  As promised in the last tutorial, in this tutorial we are going to jump in and do some coding.  We are going to implement the obligatory Hello World example using Cocos2D HTML, with a twist ( literally ).  I warn you up front, this is going to look a great deal more complex than […]