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    Corona SDK Mobile Game Development Beginner's Guide
    Corona SDK Mobile Game Development Beginner's Guide
    Credits
    About the Author
    About the Reviewers
    www.PacktPub.com
    Preface
    1. Getting Started With Corona SDK
    2. Lua Crash Course and the Corona Framework
    3. Building our First Game: Breakout
    4. Game Controls
    5. Animating our Game
    Panda star catcher
    Let's get everything moving
    The value of timed functions
    Movieclips or sprite sheets. What's the difference?
    Movieclips
    It's sprite mania!
    Game time!
    Time for action – setting up the variables
    Let's start the round
    Time for action – starting the game
    Poof begone!
    Time for action – reloading the panda on the stage
    Earn some points
    Time for action – tracking the score
    When the game ends
    Time for action – displaying the game over screen
    Background display
    Time for action – adding the background elements
    Heads up!
    Time for action – displaying the timer and score
    Time after time
    Time for action – setting up the timer
    It's so glowy
    Time for action – making the power shot
    Pandas!
    Time for action – creating the panda character
    Starry skies
    Time for action – creating star collisions
    Screen touches
    Time for action – launching the panda
    Organizing display objects
    Time for action – reordering layers
    Create stars
    Time for action – creating stars in the level
    Starting the game
    Time for action – initializing the game
    Summary
    6. Playing Sounds and Music
    7. Physics: Falling Objects
    8. Operation Storyboard
    9. Handling Multiple Devices and Networking your Apps
    10. Optimizing, Testing, and Shipping your Games
    11. Implementing In-App Purchases
    A. Pop Quiz Answers
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    5. Animating our Game > Time for action – starting the game

    Time for action – starting the game

    Right now we need to set the off screen position for the panda and have it transition to its starting launch location so the user can interact with it.

    1. After adding the variables, create a new local function called startNewRound() and add an if statement to initiate the panda object into the scene.
      local startNewRound = function()
  if panda then
    2. Add a new local function called activateRound() within startNewRound(). Set the starting position of the panda display object on screen and add ground:toFront() so that ground appears in front of the panda character.
          local activateRound = function()
      
      waitingForNewRound = false
          
      if restartTimer then
        timer.cancel( restartTimer )
      end
      
      ground:toFront()
      panda.x = 240;
      panda.y = 300;
      panda.rotation = 0
      panda.isVisible = true
      panda.isBodyActive = true

      

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