Coming from Gamesalad, a few questions :p

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Hello guys! i have a few questions…

does corona engine REALLY display graphics at 60fps? i ask because 3 of my GameSalad games suffer framerate when theres a few particles going on on the screen.

does corona have positional sound? (for headphones anyways). like if a character or enemy is on the LEFT side of the screen, you would hear it on the LEFT speaker of your headphones?

is dual joystick possible with corona?

can corona handle lots of particles? (basically question #1)

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#2
  1. yes 60fps (although default is 30, you need to set fps=60 in your config.lua file)

however your corona game will also suffer framerate drops if you have a lot going on at once. this is the same with programming natively in ObjC/Cocos2D etc. it is up to you to optimize your performance as much as possible and not try go beyond the capabilities of the framework. but you should be able to get a good number of particles… especially when using Spritesheets http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDm_8LAVmxU

  1. positional sound… not yet

  2. dual joystick, sure… you could have five joysticks if you wanted :slight_smile:

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#3

hmm… 5 joysticks? wowsers thats awesome!

well i made this game, you can check it out here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pai4BcCy03U

i woud like to make the sequel with a much better engine. gamesalad is ok but not sufficient. i can use sritedeck to layout the images. positional sounds is cool but not that important.

i just finished watching that video. seems awesome. GS would prolly crash trynna do that. my game “my zombie date!” crashes on older devices. which is why i made it 4th gen only :frowning:

thanks for the info man i will look more and more at these videos.

corona supports both open feint AND gamecenter right? [import]uid: 42731 topic_id: 7435 reply_id: 26277[/import]

#4

looks good…

you might want to check these out…

http://www.x-pressive.com/ParticleCandy_Corona/media.html
http://justaddli.me/

they cost money but definitely worth it.

do note though, Corona’s display engine is not optimized for large tilemaps/worlds at the moment. It is being looked into. GameSalad handled this a bit better in that respect, but hopefully this will get fixed soon.

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#5

gamecenter is being worked on. [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 7435 reply_id: 26330[/import]