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Corey Snyder

Corey Snyder

Engineering Manager at Root leading the App Platform and Direct Insurance teams; responsible our iOS, Android, and Web Apps. I have independently developed & released multiple mobile & web games.

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Development Tools

Videogame Development Analytics Options

Videogame Development Analytics Options: Recently I realized that Platomic.com was down and I was going to need an alternative. I did some googling to find this list of potential replacements. At some

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JavaScript algorithms I commonly use

Arrays: 1. Randomly Select X items from an array with no duplicates. So let's say I have a row of barrels I want to randomly blow up, and they are represented in a

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    Corey Snyder
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google

Why doesn't my custom marker show up on the map?

When working with Google Maps v3 I recently found myself asking: "Why doesn't my custom marker show up on the map?" Watch out for these gotchas: 1. Your markers must be

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    Corey Snyder
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App

Make your webpage act more like an iOS App

If you're looking to make a webpage or entire site act more like a native iOS app by removing the status bar or removing the UI Components there's some really simple things you

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    Corey Snyder
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Development Tools

Setup OSX Mountain Lion for ImpactJS game directory

If you are trying to develop ImpactJS games on your mac you're going to need to get your apache server and php (for weltmeister) running locally. You  could just try and run your

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    Corey Snyder
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Game-Dev

A simple game of Pong using HTML5 & JavaScript

This code is a result of a talk I gave at Manta on how simple it is to create a game using HTML5 Canvas & JavaScript. I wrote the code in an object-oriented

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Game-Dev

Notes on "How to program independent games"

I recently watched the talk that Jonathan Blow (creator of braid) gave at UC Berkley on "How to program independent games". I found it very interesting and I thought it was

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    Corey Snyder
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CSS3

Memory in Motion with KnockoutJS and 3D CSS Animations

My goal yesterday was to get some one-on-one time with KnockoutJS as well as try out using 3D CSS effects. Since the whole 3D Flipping animation reminds me of flipping playing cards, and

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    Corey Snyder
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What I learned releasing my first game.

I recently released my first iOS & HTML5 game Zombie Holiday. Along the way I learned quite a bit and I wanted to share what I learned with anyone else who may be

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Zombie Holiday v1.1 Released!

That's right, Zombie Holiday v1.1 released today. Here's what you can check out in the latest patch! Added GameCenter support and High-Scores, so we can see who will and wont survive the

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    Corey Snyder
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Zombie Christmas

Zombie Holiday now available on iOS

That's right, we did it! We've release Zombie Holiday on iPhone and iPod Touch. Our goal was to have it out by Christmas, and we hit with a week to spare. I want

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Selling my iPhone 4

I'm currently selling my iPhone4. Here's the eBay posting Info: This is a used iPhone 4, 16GB Black with the latest iOS 5.1.1 for ATT Network. The phone is Jailbroken with

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Zombie Christmas

Title Screen

Here's the graphic that we'll likely be using for the title/intro screen. What do you guys think?

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Game-play Mock

Here's an early game-play mock of what we wanted the game to look like. We took this as a starting point for how we set up our levels.

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Zombie Christmas

The Cannon is alive!

We replaced our angry birds style slingshot with a brand new snow cannon! We couldn't be more pumped at how it came out. Next step is to get it moving around and shooting

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    Corey Snyder
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Game-Dev

Zombie Christmas Concept Art

Here's some concept art we got from our Graphics Designer Dave North. These photos got the team extremely pumped and they were the first work we had seen from Dave when he joined

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HTML5 Development Link Dump (9/10/2012)

Informational: PlayCanvas - Launches into private beta. It's used to create HTML5 based 3D games. UnityXNA – XNA Inside Unity3D (An IDE for web game development) PixelWorld - Gaining popularity and nearning 20k iOS

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Impact Engine first impressions

Two weeks ago I purchased the ImpactJS Engine written by Dominic Szablewski. It was $100. I'm usually not the type to spend money on something like this but I really needed something to

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Link Dump

HTML5 Development Link Dump (7/3/2012)

If you're into HTML5 Game Development I think you will enjoy the resources linked below. If you'd like to submit content to me to add to future link-dumps please do so: coreysnyder at

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HTML5 Development Link Dump (6/28/2012)

Informational: The Open Web - and what it means - A slidshare presentation Noroff - An ImpactJS driven tutorial on how to get started making a game. Tips/Tricks Awesomeness: BeerCamp - A

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Chrome Web Lab

If you are into Art, The Web, and creative mechanical contraptions you should check out the new Chrome Web Lab. Web Lab is made of up 5 Chrome Experiment installations that bring the

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    Corey Snyder
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MongDB

MongoDB Notes & Reference

I'm going through the tutorials over at Mongodb.org in order to jump-start my knowledge of MongoDB. This is where I will keep my MongoDB notes and references. Feel free to bookmark this

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    Corey Snyder
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HTML5 / Game Development Editors/IDE

If you're getting into Game Development using HTML5 & JavaScript you might be looking for an IDE or Editor to speed up development and make your life a lot easier. I'll use this

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    Corey Snyder
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Game-Dev

HTML5 Game-Development Link Dump 4/1/2012

Games: BrowserQuest - HTML5 Browser Based MMO Tron - Done in 219 Bytes. WeaveSilk - An awesome art generator Ro.me - A music video using WebGL to render in the browser Tech

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    Corey Snyder
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Periodic Table of Elements

If you're like me, and you have a growing interest in utilizing HTML5 not only to its fullest, but also syntactically correct, you should check out the HTML Periodic Table of Elements. It's

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