Awesome Gideros
A curated list of awesome resources for the Gideros Game Development Framework that allows you to easily create games and apps for Android, iOS, HTML5, WinRT and Desktop (Windows, OSX). Please feel free to contribute to the list by making a pull request.
Contents
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.