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#1

Hi, everyone.

Totally new to Corona and Lua, have messed around with some dialects of basic in the past but never had the time to commit to learning them to be proficient in a language. I have decided at the age of 46 if I do not make the time now to learn something I am interested in. I do not want to look back again in 10 years time again being regretful that I have not taken the step to do something I know I will enjoy doing.

Just worked through the space shooter example and now need to do some reading on how to expand this, I would like to add explosions to the asteroids and have them break up into smaller ones and have random space ships attacking the player ship, also turn it into a level based game clear the asteroids and it moves onto the next level a little harder each time. If anyone can point me in the right direction for doing this I would be very grateful, I am looking for guidance not for someone to do this for me.

Many thanks

Michael

#2

Welcome and never have regrets!

For explosions I would recommend using a particle emitter.

I would use an image sheet (or sprite sheet) to store fragments of asteroids and transition them off screen with some rotation and scaling or another particle emitter with a different config would also work.

For the alien ship, again a sprite animation would be a good start and you can extend that to fire a weapon of some sort.

I’ll leave you to figure out levels, but some form of json storage would work well.

Oh and some cheesy 8 bit music would work well too!

#3

Welcome to the Forums Michael!

You would be surprised at the number of people who are in a similar position to you.

Rob

#4

Welcome and never have regrets!

For explosions I would recommend using a particle emitter.

I would use an image sheet (or sprite sheet) to store fragments of asteroids and transition them off screen with some rotation and scaling or another particle emitter with a different config would also work.

For the alien ship, again a sprite animation would be a good start and you can extend that to fire a weapon of some sort.

I’ll leave you to figure out levels, but some form of json storage would work well.

Oh and some cheesy 8 bit music would work well too!

#5

Welcome to the Forums Michael!

You would be surprised at the number of people who are in a similar position to you.

Rob