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Corona SDK Mobile Game Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Time for action – heading
Reader feedback
Customer support
Chapter 1. Getting Started With Corona SDK
Downloading and installing Corona
Time for action – setting up and activating Corona on Mac OS X
Time for action – setting up and activating Corona on Windows
Using the simulator on Mac and Windows
Time for action – viewing a sample project in the simulator
Choosing a text editor
Developing on devices
Time for action – downloading and installing Xcode
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 your application
Testing our application on an iOS device
Time for action – obtaining the iOS developer certificate
Time for action – adding/registering your iOS device
Time for action – creating an App ID
Time for action – creating a Provisioning Profile
Creating the Hello World build for iOS
Time for action – creating an iOS build
Time for action – loading an app on your iOS device
Testing our application on an Android device
Creating the Hello World build for Android
Time for action – creating an Android build
Time for action – loading an app on your Android device
Summary
Chapter 2. Lua Crash Course and the Corona Framework
Lua to the rescue
Valuable variables
Types of values
Time for action – printing values using blocks
Expressions
Strings
Time for action – getting our hands full of strings
Tables
Objects
Images
Time for action – placing images on screen
Runtime configuration
Time for action – scaling display objects on multiple devices
Time for some shapes
Functions
Optimizing your workflow
Chapter 3. Building our First Game: Breakout
Breakout—bringing back old-school gaming
Understanding Corona physics API
Configuring the application
Time for action – adding build.settings file
Time for action – adding config.lua file
Building the application
Time for action – creating variables for the game
Understanding events and listeners
Transitions
Creating menu screens
Time for action – adding the main menu screen
Creating the gameplay scene
Time for action – adding game objects
Time for action – building bricks
Red alert!
Time for action – displaying game messages
Chapter 4. Game Controls
Moving in the up direction
Let's get even more physical
Time for action – starting physics for the paddle and ball
Paddle movement
Time for action – dragging the paddle in the simulator
Time for action – moving the paddle with accelerometer
Ball collision with paddle
Time for action – making the ball bounce against the paddle
Removing objects from the scene
Brick by brick
Time for action – removing the bricks
Directional changes
Time for action – updating the ball
Transitioning levels
Time for action – resetting and changing levels
You win some you lose some
Time for action – making win and lose conditions
Activating event listeners
Time for action – adding game listeners
The results are in!
Chapter 5. Animating our Game
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