Thursday, April 7, 2011

Spencer's Game

I don't know if you have heard of Corona, from Anscamobile. They have created an easy to use physics engine with the ability to add graphics quickly for mobile devices. We first heard about this game development engine on the news. As a kid of 14 built a game that quickly surpassed the free download record holder on the iphone and android market places. He lives not far from where we live and that makes a big splash in local news. So I downloaded it and installed it. My son went to work on it and found that it was quite easy to create something new in just a matter of a few minutes and then even better after a couple of hours on it. He was able to quickly grasp the ideas and concepts that were presented in the online example and then started tweaking it so that he could make his own game. We have been working on it and making good progress. Not as fast as I wished but it is going well. We hope to release his game soon.