Introduce yourself — Gideros Forum

Apple Silicon

elves — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 11:09:19 +0000

I signed up to be a member of Apple's Universal App Quick Start Program and I get my Apple Silicon box (an ARM powered Mac Mini?) next week. The main use for it will be to develop Gideros Mobile apps. This posting is to alert anyone who is also doing this that we should keep in touch in this forum. If I can help with builds I will.

Business Application Development

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:58:47 +0000

Hi, I'm new to Gilderos and would appreciate some help in getting started. At rinstrum we develop industrial weighing electronics and have recently added embedded LUA scripting to one of our products, hence the interest in developing in LUA. What we would like to do is create a configuration utility on Android and ios using LUA that leverages the bluetooth serial profile to communicate with our products. Ideally we would like to develop the application in LUA and make it available to our customer base as a reference design for other applications they may need on mobile devices. This way they code in LUA to configure the embedded controller and can leverage some of this on mobile platforms via Gilderos. Any help appreciated. Anyone in the developer community interested in taking on the job of building us a framework, please get in touch. We have plenty of projects on the go so happy to outsource to someone experienced in this field. Darren

Hola!

Favfly — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 08:31:44 +0000

Hi everyone, I’ve been loitering in the Gideros forum - and asking the odd question - for quite some time, but haven’t introduced myself formally yet. I’m an old-school games industry guy: dev’ing since the mid 1980’s. In that time I’ve been an artist, animator, designer, writer and producer. I wanted to start making my own games and was recommended Gideros by @SinisterSoft (we used to work together a looooong, long time ago). I’ve just finished my first project, so I guess I could now add programmer to my skill-set (or at least scripter). If you get chance, take a look at my game: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uscartgames.highlifeslots Any 5 star reviews would be most welcome ;-D

YouTube channels

SinisterSoft — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 08:12:17 +0000

Here is a place where you can find the YouTube channels of people who code using Gideros or have tutorials, etc. New users can then see what people have made, how to code, etc. If you like what you see then please subscribe to the channels, and if you have a YouTube channel yourself then please add it to the thread. I'll start it off with mine. :) https://www.youtube.com/user/AnthonyBall1966

Hello all.

RamaBot — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 04:30:50 +0000

Hello all. I am Scott. I am part of a father and son game development team. We do it for love first and money second. After using Marmalade for a couple of years we stumbled across Gideros and have just decided to have a go at making a few games with it. It really does look like the perfect platform for fast game creation. We can focus on the game rather than all the tech stuff. I have over 30 years of experience in as a game developer, releasing my first game "droids" on the commodore 64 in the good old days. I have written games for most systems over the years as a sole developer or part of a massive team. If you would like to see some of our recent games then here are a couple of links to the games I have written with my Son "Sckewi" who is also joining this lovely development community. https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=DevWilliams&hl=en_GB https://itunes.apple.com/gb/developer/devwilliams/id455784703 It is just the two of us writing these games with the graphics being done by me so please be kind with your criticisms. I hope to be able to contribute here and share some of my many years of programming and development experience. Cheers. Scott.

Hello Gideros

trojanfoe — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 15:46:48 +0000

Hi there, my name is Andy and I am professional C++ programmer (for some decades now) and I am looking to use Gideros to make a few hyper casual games for Facebook and mobile and make my fortune and never have to go into an office ever again :smile: You have a nice engine here and a nice community and I like the way your engine is designed. I look forward to pestering you all in the future!

I am new in this forum so want to introduce myself.

Fri, 13 Sep 2019 00:00:26 +0000

I am Alon Gutten working as a Data Integration Specialists. And I belong to US.

Introduction

zuobox — Sat, 04 May 2019 05:45:41 +0000

Hello everyone, This is Zuo Box a collection of games which includes latest Teen Patti, Jackpot winner, snakes and ladders, ludo,Tambolo, call break, Rummy, Roulette, chess. It will make you forget poker, So just give a chance to ZuoBox to fulfill your requirements.

Hello

Sat, 23 Mar 2019 04:10:04 +0000

Hello, I'm Mary and i'm new from Americc. The list of ad networks is very large Which networks should be used, and which ones are not worth the effort?

Vote for engine of the year...

SinisterSoft — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:07:36 +0000

If you like gideros then please vote for it... http://www.mobilegamesawards.com/nominate/

Just joined...Can I help?

gbison — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:56:34 +0000

Evening folks, My name is Bryan and I am a systems engineer by day, software developer and aspiring game/app developer by night in the US. No, I'm not a C++ guru lol, but I like C#, Java, and Python and I'm beginning to accept LUA :-) I came to Gideros after searching the web to find a Corona replacement for some apps I had written back in 2013. I wasn't particularly liking the pricing model in regard to ad plugins of Corona nor the fact they fail to produce an IDE worth using - at least that I could find. When I found Gideros and seen it was an open source project, I was immediately attracted to it, as I had been wanting to become part of a project in some way or at least to help. So I downloaded it and give it a whirl last night along with a few videos and I have to say, for open source I was impressed. The only thing it seemed lacking was a GUI suite which is one of the reasons I wanted to check it out. I was looking for something to replace Unity when it comes to Apps, Unity as great as it is, is heavy in this realm, so I needed an alternative. However, it doesn't seem that Gideros has any GUI system (I could be wrong..?). My main development tools are Unity3D, Visual Studio, IntelliJ, and PyCharm. I have used Corona for some apps as well as mentioned. I want to extend my passion for apps, games, and education into an opensource project that is helpful to people and it also bodes well with my portfolio of things of course. Finally, as I said, I'm a systems engineer, so I have access to a lot of options when it comes to infrastructure (servers, virtualization, databases...ect.) I would like to help this project in any way I can, thus my question - if there is any role I might play, I would like to be considered for it, whatever it might be. Now I will proceed to try and rewrite my apps in Gideros. Also, another question, can someone point me in the direction of ad systems plugins for Gideros? Thanks, Bryan

Hello everyone

Tue, 31 Jul 2018 08:55:51 +0000

Hello everyone. I'm Adam, the new member. Be happy to join the forum with everyone.

WidgetCandy transparent windows?

bigtunacan — Sun, 20 Mar 2016 17:58:10 +0000

I just started using WidgetCandy and I'm trying to layout some buttons in a stack so I have created a window widget and add the buttons to the window. I would like to use the Window as an invisible container just for it's auto layout properties. Is there a way to set the window to transparent, but not the children widgets?

_G.GUI.LoadTheme("theme_1", "themes/theme_1/")

_G.GUI.NewWindow(
{
	x      = "center",
	y      = "bottom",
	name   = "Win1",
	theme  = "theme_1",
	width = "40%",
	height = "auto"
} )

_G.GUI.NewButton(
	{
		name = "MyButton1",
		x = "auto",
		y = "auto",
		width = "100%",
		parentGroup = "Win1",
		theme = "theme_1",
		caption = "I am a button!",
		textAlign = "center",
		icon = 15,
		onRelease = function() print("button was tapped") end,
	}
)
_G.GUI.NewButton(
	{
		name = "MyButton2",
		x = "auto",
		y = "auto",
		width = "100%",
		parentGroup = "Win1",
		theme = "theme_1",
		caption = "I am another button!",
		textAlign = "center",
		icon = 15,
		onRelease = function() print("button was tapped") end,
	}
)

_G.GUI.GetHandle("Win1"):layout(true)

Gideros Discord

Artemis — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 23:45:46 +0000

Hey everyone. I picked up Gideros a few months back and I've got a couple games I'm getting close to releasing with it. I decided to join the forums and try to get in on the conversation here, but looking around I haven't seen any discord or skype community that could help connect the community more with some live chats. Not sure if I just missed it or if I'm the only one who'd be interested but I made a quick discord server (discord.gg/ekFkrWc) if anyone else out there would like such a thing. I'm hoping to get some of the veteran community members on board as mods and start making things as accessible and beginner friendly as possible and maybe we can make Gideros a more popular engine choice all around. It definitely deserves to have more community members. If there's already such a discord I'd appreciate someone letting me know because I just haven't seen it.

It's a bout time I introduce myself

saeys — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 08:32:18 +0000

Hi everybody, I've been around here for a couple of years now, asking questions, getting good answers, and I'm immensely grateful for all the help and support I've got in this forum. I chose Gideros because of the not-so-steep learning curve of lua, and the platform's multi-os support, this forum, the aim at 2D graphics and the type of interaction and implementations I needed to create för my project. This is my app. It's not a game, it's a pronunciation training tool for pre-school kids that need to practice speech sounds and articulation. (I'm a speech-language pathologist/therapist with a background as a graphics designer and animator.) There is a Swedish and an English speaking version, as well a lite and a paid version for each language. So now you know. :-) Thanks again! /Thomas https://youtu.be/1LD3iLv9CdE https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/id1216642311 https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nu.bildligttalat.booarticulationhelper

Meet future Gideros guru :)

Apollo14 — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 00:02:28 +0000

I've been here a while, but only now decided to dive into Gideros :) My name is George, I've been working as a web developer during last 5 years (the reason I quit: webdev/SEO is extremely overcrowded due to low skill requirements). So 2 months ago I decided to try Android/iOS development. I was new to gamedev, so it was hard for me to decide what engine to use. I was choosing between Unity/Unreal, or maybe even Construct 2 cause it's more newbie-friendly. Ninjadoodle recommended Gideros, and I'm extremely grateful for that :) I've noticed that there are very few newbie video tutorials for Gideros and I felt like I really needed them. :) So for two months I was playing with Construct, learning some basic game logic and mechanics. I planned to release one or two cute little mini-games, using Construct. But, freaking hell, Construct creates so much unnecessary trouble with Cocoon.js exporting that I decided to skip it for good. When it comes to mobile, there are sooo much ugly problems in Construct, which in Gideros (or any other decent software) don't exist at all. So hi guys! This is my introduction! More newbie questions from me will be coming soon... :) P. S. By the way, guys, do you know what is better for mobile 3D/VR/AR development - Unity or Unreal? I just know that they are brilliant for PC games, but how mobile-friendly are they? How newbie-friendly are they? Is mobile even a high priority for them? Right now it seems like even poor designed android apps become popular just because they are 3D or AR :) (i'm talking about apps of this type: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.akillimum.remotecarar ) Who knows, maybe the greatest opportunities are hidden in new hype technologies like this. It's like developing apps at the beginning of android era, many developers became rich because they were among first pioneers) What do you think about AR now?

Hello everybody!

John_Vella — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 15:17:33 +0000

Hello! My name is John, and I signed up to this forum, having been advised to do so by SinisterSoft, who I met at Play Expo in Manchester, today. I have been developing games using Unity3D for almost two years, by Mr SS convinced me to give Gideros a try, so here I am, raring to go! I am, for those who are interested, a 49 year old College Tutor, who develops in his spare time, and I am married with three kids and two grandkids. I think that's about it, so I'll end by saying that it's great to be here, and I look forward to learning more about this new system. :D

Gideros FTW!

Atavismus — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 17:12:40 +0000

Hi all, I'm new to Gideros but not to coding nor gamedev. I tested many languages/engines/frameworks and Gideros seems very solid and fulfill all my needs. I have a lot of fun prototyping with it and I would like to thank you all for that. : ) On the game/culture side, I would say I'm stuck into 90': metal, pixel art and Amiga. I'm really glad to join this community so cya and take care! Atavismus PS: I was wondering if a Gideros irc exist? If not, maybe a Discord channel could be an easy and useful way to meet all together.

Hello everybody!

DocFruuth — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 09:11:16 +0000

Hello everybody! I`m happy to join this society!

Hi all

Kfixe — Sun, 29 May 2016 19:52:41 +0000

Hi all, My name is Pedro Santos, I'm from Portugal, and the founder of Mobizyng.com, a indie apps & games project. I started making games with Guiders, and want to thank all of you, the articles, tips and examples that you have posted here, that make possible to learn lua/giderosmobile and overcome the difficulties and integration with external libraries. My fist game was publish on Google play, check it at goo.gl/AwfdPR. Hope you enjoy it :) Best regards, Pedro Santos (Mobizyng,com)

Hello guys, hello girls!

uederson — Mon, 16 May 2016 14:18:03 +0000

My name is Uederson. I am from Brazil. I started making games with Game Maker Studio, and now I'm trying Gideros.

Greetings / San Francisco Meetup for Lua Game Development

hotbuttered — Sun, 03 Apr 2016 03:07:31 +0000

Hi everyone, I've just started a studio called Hot Buttered Games. I'm new to Lua and Gideros but I'm impressed with what I've seen so far. In fact I've just started a Meetup group in hopes of connecting with locals who are using Gideros, and maybe convincing a few more people to give it a try. For those who are nearby, the first Meetup is on April 27th in San Francisco. Let me know if you can make it or if you want to get involved in future meetings! The group is called San-Francisco-Lua-Game-Development Thanks! Stephen

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Tue, 05 Apr 2016 10:45:51 +0000

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Stockholm says hello

miquito — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:06:29 +0000

Hi, I'm miquito. I was just introduced to Gideros by a friend and wow do I love it. Used to be a game coder a long time ago before the advertising business got a hold of me. But now I'm putting that business on the shelf and will try to make games instead. Haven't felt this excited since I got in to Flash (or future splash as it was called back then) Got in to Blender a couple if years ago and I hope to be able to use that skill with Gideros. Glad to be here!

Pancakes for everyone

rolfpancake — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 18:36:37 +0000

Hi I'm rolfpancake or rolfo in short. I discovered Gideros only a few days ago and after played around with it a bit, it catched me. /:) I come from a python (kivy), godot (gd-script) and love2d (lua) background and wanted to dive more into lua app and game programming. What I really liked at first sight is the Gideros Studio and it's simplicity. I didn't even had to read a guide to get some examples running. No additional installation needed, no cracks and dependency hooks. Kind of candy - I hope I won't get addicted ;) At first I searched tutorials and such but there isn't much readable stuff around. I found a book and some tutorials here in the forum (which are sometimes not available anymore and there is no central collection with links). The docs are quite nice - especially the getting started guide. But I wasn't able to find a pdf-version (I like it printed). So I created one (attached). Is there some other material around? Thanks in advance! You see: I am already hooked. :-bd

vim_rocks here!

vim_rocks — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 22:31:58 +0000

Hello ladies (who are we fooling?), OK, gentlemen. My name is Victor and I am ~~not~~ a game developer ~~(believe me, I try)~~ from South America. I do pixel, vector and sometimes 3D art, actually I started in game development using Blender 2.49 (good ol' times :D) which was 3D, and then after that I tried experimenting with 2d as well. So, there's a lot more than that, but let's just skip to the part I start using Vim and learn about Gideros's existence, which basically happened this week. I'm sort of a ~~noob~~ newcomer to LUA and I complete noob to Gideros, but I hope my Python and JS ~~(which LUA is for me, python and JS but faster...)~~ background help me. See you :) Twitter -> @vicfabgo

Hello Everyone

MobileGameGraphics — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 02:40:11 +0000

Hi I am Alex from Sweden, owner of a game assets store called http://MobileGameGraphics.com . Hope to meet new friend and increase my knowledge and skills.

Hi

ChrisF — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 05:03:18 +0000

Hi everyone Long time Android and iOS developer (mainly apps), looking to start doing some more casual games and was recommended Gideros by Anthony (SinisterSoft) - only been playing with it at the moment whilst I come up with some ideas but it looks good, definitely looks like I could spend more time writing and less time fighting with the OS etc.

Hi From Mani

CreativeManix — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 05:36:04 +0000

I am Mani from India, Currently in UK Started game developement just few weeks back, after exploring many frameworks started with gideros. It is really simple to start with, I was able to do decent coding just in 2 days though I am doing Gaming and Lua first time. Apart from this I have good experience on Azure, C# and SharePoint. Really happy to join this community

A belated hello

freessp — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:26:31 +0000

Hey everybody. I've been a member for over a year now and just realized I never introduced myself. My name is Sam and I am from Michigan. I have been dabbling in programming for many years and finally decided to actually do something with it. I have an Associate degree in Electronics Technology, and an Associate in Computer Programming where I studied C++, Java, and .NET languages. Between my fiance and myself, we have 5 children between the ages of 14 and 25, which keep life interesting to say the least.