- Corona SDK HOTSHOT
- Table of Contents
- Corona SDK HOTSHOT
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgement
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Bat Swat – An Introduction to App Event Cycles
- 2. SuperCargo – Using Events to Track Game Progress
- 3. TranslationBuddy – Fast App Development for any Field
- 4. Deep Black – Processing Mobile Device Input
- What do we build?
- Creating the player and receiving events
- Processing raw physical events
- Bridging physical events to game events
- Creating the world rules
- Creating enemies and controlling collisions
- Responding to fire controls and creating bullets
- Responding to collisions and handling lives
- Recognizing kills and recording scores
- Game over – wrapping it up
- Can you take the HEAT? The Hotshot Challenge
- 5. Atmosfall – Managing Game Progress with Coroutines
- 6. Predation – Creating Powerful Visuals from Simple Effects
- 7. Caves of Glory – Mastering Maps and Zones
- 8. The Beat Goes On – Integrating with Game Networks
- What do we build?
- Tracking multiple touches
- Comparing touches with targets
- Loading and playing music
- Enabling Game Center on the Provisioning Portal
- Enabling Game Center on iTunes Connect
- Initializing a game network connection
- Updating and reading a leaderboard
- Game over – wrapping it up
- Can you take the HEAT? The Hotshot Challenge
- 9. Into the Woods – Computer Navigation of Environments
- What do we build?
- Structuring the A* algorithm
- Writing a custom iterator
- Selecting costs for neighboring tiles
- Sorting likely routes using a heap
- Writing a heuristic function
- Connecting all the elements
- Using the implementation to find a path
- Moving based on path selection
- Game over – wrapping it up
- Can you take the HEAT? The Hotshot Challenge
- 10. Underfoot – Selectively Leveraging the Physics System
- What do we build?
- Building physics for the map
- Making characters interact with the world
- Responding to collisions with other characters
- Bouncing off enemies as appropriate
- Controlling gravity to enable climbing
- Selecting collisions by manipulating contacts
- Adding polish with custom fonts
- Game over – wrapping it up
- Can you take the HEAT? The Hotshot Challenge
- Index
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