Gideros Studio is a cross-platform game development tool that allows creating games for iOS and Android using the Lua scripting language. It offers a fast development process, offline compilation, plugin support, and a helpful community. Gideros uses Lua scripts combined with C++ and OpenGL for high performance. It provides a complete development environment, physics engine, sound, and supports deployment to iOS and Android devices via WiFi.

1. GIDEROS STUDIO
INTRODUCTION
Nguyen Khanh Duy
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2. • A young studio founded on January 2012
• Mission and passion: create fun games for
casual players as well as kids
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3. GAMES
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4. STARTUP
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5. OUR CHOICE
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6. • Fast development
• Cross-platform IDE and SDK
• Very easy to learn
• Quick deployment to device via Wifi
• Special features
• Offline compilation (unlike Corona)
• Plug-ins support
• Cost
• Active, helpful, and friendly community
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7. GIDEROS FEATURES
• Lua scripting
• easy-to-learn
• widespread
• lots of support
• The scripting logic is similar to Action Script
• Much easier to learn for Flash developers
• OpenGL powered
• Fast, optimized, portable
• Box2D Physics Engine
• OpenAL Sound Engine
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8. COMPLETE DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT
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9. TECHNOLOGIES
• Gideros Studio has a layered architecture
• Mid-layer: OpenGL and C++
• Scripting language powered by Lua, 10th most widely
used computer language in the world
• Lua runtime machine converts the callbacks to C++
functions and OpenGL
• This results in high performance apps and games
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10. ARCHITECTURE OF GIDEROS STUDIO
Gideros Player Gideros Font Creator
Gideros Studio Gideros Texure Packer
LUA – C++ bridge
3rd party
Gideros C++ API
Plugin
Common Library (OGL, OAL, Box2D, …)
Android / iOS specific layer:
Touch, gyroscopes, network, …
Hardware
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11. PLATFORM SUPPORT
• Gideros Studio runs on:
o MS Windows
o Mac OS X (64 bit)
o Linux (with Wine)
• Gideros Studio can build apps for:
o iPhone (3.X or later)
o iPad
o iPod Touch
o Android (2.1 or later)
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12. GIDEROS STUDIO API
Physics Timer
• All physics features like physics world, • Platform-specific, high definition timers
body, fixtures, joints for accurate timing events
Analytics Sound
• Flurry analytics module, providing • Open source Open-AL based solid sound
detailed analytics data to increase system with many features
usability and provide marketing data
Texture
Geolocation
• Support for texturemaps and texture
• Gyro, compass, accelerometer support, atlas, for rapid and fast displaying
including dispatching location based objects
events
Events
Sprites
• Events are the central mechanism to
• Scene and sprite management, including handle responses, allowing to create
more than 30 functions for sprites highly interactive applications
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14. REFERENCES:
• Slide: Academy 101 - Gideros Studio: Features and Benefits
• Images from Google
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