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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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 […]
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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If you need to add Lua support for WordPress SyntaxHighlighter Evolved plugin then here is one way:
Download this ZIP file. It contains 2 files:
shBrushLua.js – Lua Brush file shBrushLua.php – WordPress plugin
Extract these 2 files and use FTP to navigate to your plugins folder (usually /public_html/wp-content/plugins),
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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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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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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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Every now and then you would like to check what version of Laravel do you have installed. How to determine that? Here are a couple of ways. I tested this for Laravel 4.
1. The easiest way is to simply run artisan command php artisan --version from your CLI and it will return your Laravel
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Integrating Bootstrap into a Laravel application allows you to build clean, responsive user interfaces quickly using Blade template inheritance. Whether you are maintaining an existing project or setting up a lightweight custom layout, structuring your Blade views with Bootstrap CSS and JavaScript assets is straightforward.
Here is a step-by-step guide on how to integrate Bootstrap
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