vector math Tag

30 November 2015

Corona Geek #170 – Firing Weapons and Killing Enemies – Part 2

On today's Corona Geek Hangout we talked about Corona Labs being acquired by Perk and we continued our desktop game development series with a follow up discussion to last week's exploration of vector math calculations for firing arrows at zombies. Links are in the show notes....

Charles McKeever
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23 November 2015

Corona Geek #169 – Firing Weapons and Refined Simple Pathfinding

On today's Corona Geek Hangout we continued our desktop game development series with the exploration of vector math calculations for firing arrows at zombies. We also looked at a refined version of last week's simple pathfinding example where enemies are turned into smart zombies that chase the player around the screen as the player moves....

Charles McKeever
Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts

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23 September 2015

Hangout Highlights – Adding Missile Shooting Turrets – Using Gravity In Games – Part 5

Last week we continued development on our "Monsters Need Coins" game. Ed Maurina walked us through adding static missile shooting turrets to the game, along with adding homing missiles that follow the player around the platforms. We discussed the vector math involved to accomplish this and looked at the code for adding the turrets. Here are clips from the Hangout....

Charles McKeever
Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts

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21 September 2015

Corona Geek #160 – Homing Turret Vector Math Breakdown – Using Gravity In Games – Part 6

On today's Corona Geek Hangout we continued our game development discussion with a homing turret code example . We turned regular "dumb" missiles into homing missile that followed the target after the projectiles are launched from the turret. Download the code for full details....

Charles McKeever
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14 September 2015

Corona Geek #159 – Adding Turrets To Games – Using Gravity In Games – Part 5

On today's Corona Geek Hangout we continued our game development discussion by adding turrets that shoot at the player. We also talked about the necessary vector math and concepts around firing bullets in the correct direction. Download the updated project....

Charles McKeever
Corona Geek, Google+ Hangouts

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