Corona SDK Mobile Game Development: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Michelle M. Fernandez

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781783559350
• Thema: Ciencia de la computación
• Thema: Programación de juegos

About This Book

• From game physics to successful marketing, learn the fundamentals of Corona SDK for game development
• Integrate your games with social networks such as Twitter and Facebook
• This is a pragmatic guide explained in a step-by-step manner to create and deploy games quickly and efficiently

Who This Book Is For

This book is for anyone who wants to have a go at creating commercially successfully games for Android and iOS. You don't need game development or programming experience.

Corona SDK Mobile Game Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition

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Table of Contents

Corona SDK Mobile Game Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

Why subscribe?

Free access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Time for action – heading

What just happened?

Pop quiz – heading

Have a go hero – heading

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with Corona SDK

Downloading and installing Corona

Time for action – setting up and activating Corona on Mac OS X

What just happened?

Time for action – setting up and activating Corona on Windows

What just happened?

Using the simulator on Mac and Windows

Time for action – viewing a sample project in the simulator

What just happened?

Have a go hero – use a different device shell

Choosing a text editor

Developing on devices

Time for action – downloading and installing Xcode

What just happened?

Time for action – creating a Hello World application in two lines of code

Time for action – modifying our application

Time for action – applying a new font name to our application

What just happened?

Have a go hero – adding more text objects

Testing our application on an iOS device

Time for action – obtaining the iOS developer certificate

What just happened?

Adding iOS devices

Xcode

iTunes

Time for action – adding/registering your iOS device

Time for action – creating an App ID

What just happened?

Provisioning profiles

Time for action – creating a provisioning profile

What just happened?

Application icon

Creating the Hello World build for iOS

Time for action – creating an iOS build

What just happened?

Time for action – loading an app on your iOS device

What just happened?

Testing our application on an Android device

Creating the Hello World build for Android

Time for action – creating an Android build

What just happened?

Time for action – loading an app on your Android device

What just happened?

Pop quiz – understanding Corona

Summary

2. Lua Crash Course and the Corona Framework

Lua to the rescue

Valuable variables

Global variables

Local variables

Table fields (properties)

Assignment conventions

Types of values

Time for action – printing values using blocks

What just happened?

Expressions

Arithmetic operators

Relational operators

Logical operators

Concatenation

The length operator

Precedence

Strings

Quoting strings

Time for action – getting our hands full of strings

What just happened?

Have a go hero – pulling some more strings

Tables

Passing a table as an array

Altering contents in a table

Populating a table

Objects

Display objects

Display properties

Object methods

Images

Loading an image

Image autoscaling

Time for action – placing images on screen

What just happened?

Have a go hero – adjusting display object properties

Runtime configuration

Dynamic content scaling

Dynamic content alignment

Dynamic image resolution

Frame rate control

Time for action – scaling display objects on multiple devices

What just happened?

Dynamic resolution images

Time for some shapes

Applying stroke width, fill color, and stroke color

Text, text, text

Applying color and string value

What are functions?

Defining a function

More display functions

Content size properties

Optimize your workflow

Use memory efficiently

Optimize your display images

Pop quiz – basics of Lua

Summary

3. Building Our First Game – Breakout

Breakout – bringing back old-school gaming

Understanding the Corona physics API

Setting up the physics world

Starting, pausing, and stopping the physics engine

physics.setGravity

physics.getGravity

Tilt-based gravity

physics.setScale

physics.setDrawMode

physics.setPositionIterations

physics.setVelocityIterations

Configuring the application

Build configuration

Time for action – adding the build.settings file

What just happened?

Dynamic scaling

Time for action – adding the config.lua file

What just happened?

Building the application

Displaying groups

display.newGroup()

Working with system functions

system.getInfo()

system.setAccelerometerInterval()

Time for action – creating variables for the game

What just happened?

Understanding events and listeners

Register events

Runtime events

enterFrame

Accelerometer

Touch events

Touch (single touch)

tap

Transitions

Creating menu screens

Time for action – adding the main menu screen

What just happened?

Have a go hero – creating a help screen

Creating the game play scene

Time for action – adding game objects

What just happened?

Time for action – building bricks

What just happened?

Have a go hero – focused platform gaming

Red alert!

Time for action – displaying game messages

What just happened?

Pop quiz – building a game

Summary

4. Game Controls

Moving in the up direction

Let's get even more physical

physics.addBody()

Time for action – starting physics for the paddle and ball

What just happened?

Paddle movement

Time for action – dragging the paddle in the simulator

What just happened?

Time for action – moving the pad...