What is a Spritesheet? (not a drink)

I have found this very interesting video and I wanted to share it with you. It’s about spritesheets, wait what?

Ok, a spritesheet is a big image file that contains smaller images inside. The reason behind this is to avoid having multiple images spread around the project directory and to save memory on the device. But enough introduction, here it is:

SpriteSheets video

Thanks Andreas Loew for letting me share this content.

P7 - How to make an iPad eBook with CoronaSDK

In this tutorial I’ll show you a demonstration on how to use a very important module called Director. This module was develop by Ricardo Rauber at his lab in Brazil. He created it to help the developer’s community and certainly he is doing a great job. Right now he is in version 1.4. if you want more information you should go to his page http://rauberlabs.blogspot.ca and take a look. The only sad things is that there is not available information for beginners, so that’s why I decided to give Ricardo a hand and try to explain a little more what is it about. I hope I’m doing a good job here, if not please let me know what would you like me to explain further.

But then how did I manage to understand it? Well there are some comments inside the module. And you can also run it and see how it works. So that’s about it. After that you need to implement it with your own code; and that’s how I teach myself.

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So let’s get to it.

Nook store nightmares...

As some of you may know publishing in the NOOK app store could be a nightmare.
First of all, if are a developer like me, you might want to look into this store since has a few but good features (that in another post).
So for now I want to warn you that applying is a nightmare. First all the questions, then the taxes even if you are publshing outside the US you still need to apply for an EAN.
As usual, if everything goes the way it goes in a perfect world then you don't have to worry. But if you live in the same world that I live then you are screwed.
All I want to say for now is that pay attention to every step. Specially in the tax application because if you misspelled the name of your street then the process is halted. In my case instead of just typing the number of my apartment there was the word UNIT in front. So for that reason my application was put in review mode.
Ok, that's it for now.
Cheers!

Why iBooks Author is a big deal for publishers

Very interesting blog post about making iPad interactive books ->
Media Concepts Research Group: Why iBooks Author is a big deal for publishers

Part 6 - How to make an iPad intereactive book app using Corona SDK

Hello and welcome to another tutorial. This time I'm going to show you how to make an object draggable. So in other words, once you created your object you can add  features to it such as physics, etc.
I recomend going to the other videos first but if you feel you know enough then go ahead.

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Tutorial on dragging objects on-screen using CoronaSDK.

Part 5 - How to make an iPad interactive book with Corona SDK

This is part 5 of my tutorial on how to make an iPad interactive book for children. In this lesson we’ll see an introduction to the physics engine that comes with Corona SDK. What we are going to see here is an explanation of a sample that ships with Corona SDK, so in other words if you installed Corona SDK in your computer then you have the sample file already. You probably want to watch the previous tutorials before you watch this one.

Part 4 - How to make an interactive iPad book using Gumbo

Hi everybody! I was on holidays so it took me longer than expected to post this tutorial but here it is at last.
In this tutorial I’ll show you a web tool called Gumbo. We will use it to place images on screen without having to type a single line of code! Later I’ll show you how to add sound to an object; when the object is touched a sound plays. I hope you like it and please share it!
Cheers!