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Corona SDK Mobile Game Development Beginner's Guide

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Corona SDK Mobile Game Development Beginner's Guide

Corona SDK Mobile Game Development Beginner's Guide

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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?

It's sprite mania!

Time for action – setting up the variables

Let's start the round

Time for action – starting the game

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

Time for action – displaying the timer and score

Time after time

Time for action – setting up the timer

Time for action – making the power shot

Time for action – creating the panda character

Time for action – creating star collisions

Time for action – launching the panda

Organizing display objects

Time for action – reordering layers

Time for action – creating stars in the level

Starting the game

Time for action – initializing the game

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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Help

Time for action – making the power shot

We need to create a separate function for the powerShot so it can be called when the panda is set for launch.

Display the powerShot object through a new local function called createPowerShot(). Insert it into the gameGroup group.

local createPowerShot = function()
  powerShot = display.newImage( "glow.png" )
  powerShot.xScale = 1.0; powerShot.yScale = 1.0
  powerShot.isVisible = false
  
  gameGroup:insert( powerShot )
end

What just happened?

The powerShot object is created through the createPowerShot() function and is called when the panda is setting up for launch.

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