Final Score

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#1

Hello Guys, I’m almost finally my first game in corona sdk, but I have a little problem,I dont know how I can do a final score, In my game I have several levels and in all the level have a score, but I want to do a final score with the result of all the levels.

Please If anybody can help me with this I’ll be very grateful.

Thanks

#2

myGlobals.finalScore = myGlobals.finalScore + level.score on each level perhaps?

#3

funkyvisions’ way is perfectly acceptable, but if the user is allowed to replay a level then you need to account for that, otherwise the score added repeatedly for that single level.

Another way would be to have a table, and keep the scores in that. This way you can also only overwrite a level’s score if they get a higher score.

At the start of the game, set the score for each level to zero:

levelScores = {} for i = 1, numberOfLevels do levelScores[i] = 0 end

Then at the end of a level, see if the score can be stored:

if thisLevelScore \> levelScores[levelNumber] then levelScores[levelNumber] = thisLevelScore end

Then at the end of the game, add all of the scores up:

local endScore = 0 for i = 1, #levelScores do endScore = endScore + levelScores[i] end

As I say, nothing wrong with funkyvisions’ way of doing it, but this is another way to do it if you need to repeat levels (or store scores for individual levels).

#4

Hello thanks for your help, this method works for the director class?

#5

myGlobals.finalScore = myGlobals.finalScore + level.score on each level perhaps?

#6

funkyvisions’ way is perfectly acceptable, but if the user is allowed to replay a level then you need to account for that, otherwise the score added repeatedly for that single level.

Another way would be to have a table, and keep the scores in that. This way you can also only overwrite a level’s score if they get a higher score.

At the start of the game, set the score for each level to zero:

levelScores = {} for i = 1, numberOfLevels do levelScores[i] = 0 end

Then at the end of a level, see if the score can be stored:

if thisLevelScore \> levelScores[levelNumber] then levelScores[levelNumber] = thisLevelScore end

Then at the end of the game, add all of the scores up:

local endScore = 0 for i = 1, #levelScores do endScore = endScore + levelScores[i] end

As I say, nothing wrong with funkyvisions’ way of doing it, but this is another way to do it if you need to repeat levels (or store scores for individual levels).

#7

Hello thanks for your help, this method works for the director class?