If you’re like me, you know it’s a pain in the ass to type “/Applications/CoronaSDK/Corona\ Terminal” into terminal every time you want to run the Corona Terminal; and you’d probably rather not have an ugly terminal executable icon sitting in your doc –especially seeing as it has to sit in the files section of your [...]
Using Timelines in Corona SDK (MovieClipX)
A little over a year ago I released a tool that extended Corona SDK’s MovieClip library, in a sense it originally was just adding another layer of manipulability. Allow me to illustrate in flowcharts. The original library Here was how the original MovieClip library worked, As you can see, every animation was it’s own object. [...]
Uploading files to a remote server using rsync
So I had this annoying task before me to perform a massive batch file upload to a web server, and I’m talking gigs of data. So after trying a few visual FTP clients and failing, I decided to use good ‘ol SCP over terminal. So I woke up this morning to find out that it [...]
Using MovieClipX with your Corona SDK projects
As an aspiring (for now) game developer, I spend a lot of time researching and experimenting with various engines. As many of you can probably tell from my site, a tool I use often is Corona SDK. It’s an amazing game engine for both the iOS & Android platforms. It’s getting fairly large now, however [...]
Mixing colors mathematically.
So the other day I was confronted with a challenge while developing my game. I needed a way to mix two colors programmatically. So in the rare chance that you’re confronted with the same challenge, let me make your life a little easier. Here’s the algorithm for it. You’ll need to make sure to split each [...]