Gideros Studio: Features and Benefits

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Gideros Studio: Features and

Benefits

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• What is Gideros Studio?

• Technology behind Gideros family

• Features of Gideros Studio

• Benefits of using Gideros Studio

• Gideros Studio architecture

• Tools and utilites that comes with Gideros Studio

Agenda

• Benefit from native performance of the device with OpenGL

• Once codebase: develop once, publish everywhere

– Cross-platform IDE and SDK

• Measure your application with built-in analytics

• Reduce your development costs

• Simplify application development

• Focus on the application design and logic, not technical

hurdles

Why Gideros Studio?

• Experienced mobile game developers

• Gaming and entertainment companies

• Teachers providing courses related to mobile development

• Ex-Flash developers who find it difficult to learn new

technologies

• New developers, who always wanted to write a game but

bounced back by technical difficulties, learning curves and

high investment.

Who can use Gideros Studio?

• 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

Features

Complete Development Environment

• Gideros Studio has a layered architecture

• Midlayer: 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

Technology

Architecture of Gideros Studio

IDE

BRIDGE

PLATFORM

LIBRARIES

C++ API

HARDWARE

1. Code in simple Lua language using Gideros IDE

2. Open Gideros Player (on PC or device)

3. Press “RUN” - Lua codes are compiled during runtime and

executed using C++ callbacks.

4. Test your game

5. Make necessary adjustments, re-test and re-debug

How does Gideros Studio work?

Code Test Deploy

• 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 better)

o iPad

o iPod

o Android (2.1 or better)

Platform support

• Gideros Studio has both a free and a paid licensing options

• Free versiono Includes all features

o For Indie developers

o Application shows a 2-sec splash screen when run

• Paid versiono Priority support

o For both indie and enterprise companies

o No splash screens shown

Gideros Studio licensing

PhysicsAll physics features like physics world, body,

fixtures, joints

AnalyticsFlurry analytics module, providing detailed

analytics data to increase usability and provide

marketing data

GeolocationGyro, compass, accelerometer support,

including dispatching location based events

SpritesScene and sprite management, including more

than 30 functions for sprites

TimerPlatform-specific, high definition timers for

accurate timing events

SoundOpen source Open-AL based solid sound

system with many features

TextureSupport for texturemaps and texture atlas, for

rapid and fast displaying objects

EventsEvents are the central mechanism to handle

responses, allowing to create highly interactive

applications

Gideros Studio API

Applications developed using Gideros Studio<< Tim the Timber >>

• Coded in only 3 months

• Featured «News and

Noteworthy» in Apple

• Game Center

• Game features:

– 99 exciting levels

– Many cool power-ups

– Addictive gameplay!

• More than 20000+

downloads!

Applications developed using Gideros Studio<< A snow tale >>

• A children book, telling the

story of a brother and a

sister, who witness the snow

for the first time

• Coded in only 1.5 months

• More than 90+ ratings

• Rated 4+

• Game features:

– 99 exciting levels

– Many cool power-ups

– Addictive gameplay!

• More than 20000+

downloads!

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