awesome-gideros

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Whenever you need to figure something out- this is the first place to go

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Try Gideros in your browser without installing anything

See some of the capabilites of Gideros in your browser

Official list of guides and tutorials

By one of the maintainers of Gideros

Getting started with publishing to Android

Forum thread with hints about improving the performance of Gideros apps

Overview of the Desktop API to manipulate mouse cursor and window decorations

Introductory tutorial about creating a simple square-dodge game

Extensive tutorial series about making a turn-based roguelike in Gideros

Tutorial about creating a Breakout-like game using Gideros and Box2D

Comprehensive getting-started guide to Gideros by developing a small game

Comprehensive book about developing a game for mobile with Gideros

Introducing a variety of Lua-based game development frameworks including Gideros

Introductory tutorial for using ZBS with Gideros Remote Preview

Video showing the live coding capabilities of ZBS and Gideros

Video tutorial by the creator of ZBS

With Gideros support (Windows only)

Adding Gideros support to ST3

Introductory text about shaders in Gideros

Check out shaders from Shadertoy using Gideros

Text-based tutorial on how to use the RenderTarget class to create a clipping effect

Easily switch between scenes with or without transitions

Passing variables to the next scene when using the scene manager

GidSwipe

Easy to use tap and swipe manager for mobile

Define and detect complex gestures from points a list of points

Quick example of how to use the device accelerometer as input

Small snippet to detect device shake

Tween sprite variables with this library (comes with all the easing functions you need)

Tutorial on how to animate sprites using the MovieClip class

Spriteheet animation class

Class that helps with creating and playing animations from spritesheets

Examples and suggestions on how to make stuff collide with the tiles in your tilemap

Useful class implementation for a camera in a mobile game

Tutorial about generating and using sounds with Gideros

Loading and saving manually via JSON

User-friendly wrapper to make saving and loading data as easy as possible

Some ideas (with code) about securing the save files from unwanted manipulation

Video tutorial about integrating Admob into your game

Second part of the Admob tutorial showing Google Play Service integration

Layout

Comprehensive Gideors GUI framework ( )

Simple class for creating clickable buttons

Sliding UI-Element that can be used for example for level selection

Introduction by one of the maintainers of Gideros

SKStoreReview

Gideros Plugin for SKStoreReviewController iOS 10.3+

Getting started with Gideros plugin development in C++

lume

Great collection of functions that are useful for game development

inspect

Easily pretty-print your tables to the console in a readable way

Super-fast grid-based pathfinding for Lua

bump

Simple, flexible and fast library for collision detection using axis-aligned bounding boxes (from version 2017.8 onwards Gideros contains a C-port of the library with the same API that should be used instead

Bresenham

Bresenham's line algorithm, implemented in Lua