Hi,
My name is Rune Winsevik and I’ve been playing around with Corona SDK for a bit over a year now. I haven’t made any complex stuff, but I have have rediscovered the fun of coding with Corona. It’s easy to quickly make something simple.
So when my kids struggled with preparing for “foreign words tests” at school I thought “why not make an app making it a little bit more interesting than just staring at a paper, trying to remember the words”? I also used the Text To Speech plugin by Spiral Code Studio so that my kids get an idea about how to pronounce the words they are learning.
I basically hammered down this word game called Karate Squid (yes, it’s not very descriptive…). The basic idea is that you are “tested” in 3 different difficulty levels by a “strict karate sensei”. If you have 5 words in the list, you will have to break 5 objects (see picture below). If you get any words wrong, this object will not break and you’ll have to redo the test.
Hence the karate part of the name…
90% of the app was done in a weekend, but as everybody knows, it’s the last 10% that takes 90% of the time…
The app has been on Google Play for awhile:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmail.runewinse.Karate_Squid
It’s not exactly a great success (at 10 downloads :-), but it’s been a great way for me to learn about the following Corona topics:
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Easing
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Physics
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Simple breaking physics
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Text fields
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Composer
- Text To Speech plugin by Spiral Code Studio
Some of the topics were new to me - other not that new.
Here are some screen shots:
Thanks for looking!