Awesome Gideros

A curated collection of resources and projects focused on Gideros.

Contents

• Getting Started
• Resources
  • Tutorials and Tips
  • Full game examples
  • Publications
  • IDEs and Editors
  • Graphics and Shaders
  • Scene Managment
  • Input
  • Animation and Tweens
  • Tilemaps
  • Camera
  • Audio
  • Saving and Loading
  • Monetization
  • GUI
  • 3D
  • Plugins
• Useful Lua-Libraries
• License and Contriuting

Getting Started

• Download Gideros - Get Gideros here (it is free but donations are welcome!).
• Getting Started Manual - Check here first to get an overview of the framework.
• API Reference - Whenever you need to figure something out- this is the first place to go.
• Forum - Join the very helpful community.
• Online Editor - Try Gideros in your browser without installing anything.
• Online Examples - See some of the capabilites of Gideros in your browser.
• Developer Guide - Official list of guides and tutorials.

Resources

A collection of resources (blog and forum entries, websites, packages etc) for Gideros

Tutorials and Tips

• Introductory Video Tutorial - By one of the maintainers of Gideros.
• Publishing to Android - Getting started with publishing to Android.
• Improving performance - Forum thread with hints about improving the performance of Gideros apps.
• Desktop API - Overview of the Desktop API to manipulate mouse cursor and window decorations.

Full game examples

• Simple square-dodge game - Introductory tutorial about creating a simple square-dodge game.
• Top-down roguelike Tutorial - Extensive tutorial series about making a turn-based roguelike in Gideros.
• Breakout Clone - Tutorial about creating a Breakout-like game using Gideros and Box2D.
• “Grab the treasure” course - Comprehensive getting-started guide to Gideros by developing a small game.

Publications

Books about Gideros

• Gideros Mobile Game Development - Comprehensive book about developing a game for mobile with Gideros.
• Learn Lua for iOS Game Development - Introducing a variety of Lua-based game development frameworks including Gideros.

IDEs and Editors

Code editors and plugins that work with Gideros

• Using ZeroBrane Studio with Gideros - Introductory tutorial for using ZBS with Gideros Remote Preview.
• Live Coding with Gideros and ZeroBrane Studio - Video showing the live coding capabilities of ZBS and Gideros.
• ZeroBrane Studio integration and debugging - Video tutorial by the creator of ZBS.
• Visual Studio Code plugin - With Gideros support (Windows only).
• Sublime Text 3 plugin - Adding Gideros support to ST3.

Graphics and Shaders

• Shaders in Gideros - Introductory text about shaders in Gideros.
• Shadertoy viewer - Check out shaders from Shadertoy using Gideros.
• Intro to clipping and the RenderTarget - Text-based tutorial on how to use the RenderTarget class to create a clipping effect.

Scene Management

• SceneManager - Easily switch between scenes with or without transitions.
• Passing variables using the SceneManager - Passing variables to the next scene when using the scene manager.

Input

• GidSwipe - Easy to use tap and swipe manager for mobile.
• Gestures - Define and detect complex gestures from points a list of points.
• Accelerometer - Quick example of how to use the device accelerometer as input.
• Shake detection - Small snippet to detect device shake.

Animation and Tweens

• GTween - Tween sprite variables with this library (comes with all the easing functions you need).
• Animation using MovieClip - Tutorial on how to animate sprites using the MovieClip class.
• Spriteheet animation class - Class that helps with creating and playing animations from spritesheets.

Tilemaps

• Collision with Tilemaps - Examples and suggestions on how to make stuff collide with the tiles in your tilemap.

Camera

• Smooth camera with Drag and Pinch-to-Zoom - Useful class implementation for a camera in a mobile game.

Audio

• Intro to using audio with Gideros - Tutorial about generating and using sounds with Gideros.

Saving and Loading

• Using JSON - Loading and saving manually via JSON.
• DataSaver module - User-friendly wrapper to make saving and loading data as easy as possible.
• Encrypting save files - Some ideas (with code) about securing the save files from unwanted manipulation.

Monetization

• Admob integration - Video tutorial about integrating Admob into your game.
• Google Service integration - Second part of the Admob tutorial showing Google Play Service integration.

GUI

• Layout - Comprehensive Gideors GUI framework (forum entry).
• Button class - Simple class for creating clickable buttons.
• AceSlide class - Sliding UI-Element that can be used for example for level selection.

3D

Note: 3D support is still in development but if you like to play around with it already, here are some starting points

• Tutorial using 3D in Gideros - Introduction by one of the maintainers of Gideros.

Plugins

• SKStoreReview - Gideros Plugin for SKStoreReviewController iOS 10.3+.
• C++ plugin development - Getting started with Gideros plugin development in C++.

Useful Lua-Libraries

General Lua libraries that are useful in gamedev but are not Gideros specific

• lume - Great collection of functions that are useful for game development.
• inspect - Easily pretty-print your tables to the console in a readable way.
• jumper - 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 cbump.
• Bresenham - Bresenham’s line algorithm, implemented in Lua.

Related Awesome Lists

• awesome-lua
• awesome-love2d
• awesome-gamedev

License and Contributing

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