The angry exorcist and ghost graphics by Jonathan Clapham
Yesterday was Aral Balkan‘s Update conference as part of the Brighton Digital Festival. I don’t think I’ve ever been to a conference where organiser sings a song to open the event! (with a full live band I should add!)
It was a really fantastic and enjoyable conference with a great mixture of different presentations, panels and musical interludes. Although I found Aral’s musical number a little cringeworthy (sorry Aral!), I admire the guy – and why can’t he have a little fun at his own conference? 
Anna Debenham kicking arse at Update, photo by Jeremy Keith
I presented a session about Corona; a mobile development platform for iOS and Android that is really good at making games and simple toys. In my session I built an Angry Birds clone – “The Irritable Exorcists” with graphics made by my nephew Jonathan.
I love Corona – like any simple accessible platform, it has limitations, but if it can do what you need, you can produce excellent results very very quickly indeed. It’s very good at moving bitmaps around (with GPU acceleration) and has Box2D built in, so it’s perfect for an Angry Birds type game.
I know the session was recorded – I’m not sure what Aral will do with it. But you can download the code and assets here. You’ll also need the Corona SDK to try it for yourself.
It’s naturally pretty rough around the edges. Click and drag the exorcist back to play the game. Oh and you need to run it in the iPad simulator. (Select iPad from the drop down of devices when you open the folder).
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Hi Seb!
Thank you for the news and files. Wanted to attend but had no chance.
Is there anywhere video of your session recorded? I’ve found tttp://lanyrd.com/2011/updateconf. But there is one video only.
Thanks, Andrew
Apparently it was recorded and the videos will be posted! I’ll let you know when it’s up.
Wow! This is awesome. The code will be very helpful with the angry birds like game I’m making. Thank you.
thanks for this seb..great work… i’ve shared it over on the corona forum. plus a couple of simple tweaks to make the camera fit different device sizes
http://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2011/09/06/parallax-zooming-angry-birds
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Hi,
Any update on getting a copy of the conf video for this?
Iain
Good question! I’ll check with Aral.
I’d love to see that video, too! I think it could be really helpful with what I’m trying to do.
Apparently Aral will look at it when he gets back from… um… wherever he is right now
Great! Thanks for the update, Seb!
Cheers for chasing this up.
Any news on this yet?
Cheers
Iain
I hear that Aral is picking up the videos today. But who knows!
Thanks a lot for the update! I’ll keep checking back.
Just so you know, the video is now online
http://sebleedelisle.com/2012/01/live-iphone-coding-video-now-online/
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Hi Seb,
Thank you so much for these… this will really give me a kick start on my personal quest of making mobile apps. I have no coding background but very excited to try this out… I got the corona sdk as you suggested and this video really makes it possible for people like me… Thanks again.
That’s fantastic news, thanks for sharing Ron. Did you see my video for non-coders? http://seb.ly/2012/02/learn-to-code-in-2012-the-visual-way/
Brillant !! thank you very much !! you really help me !! I enjoyed your video a lot !! keep doing this !! I’m new in this , but thanks to guys like you You can lean very fast =) !!
bye.