I am new to Lua. I have read through the getting started guides and have a few questions.
I did the Balloon tutorial and noticed that when the balloon goes off screen at the top and comes back down again there is a very small area at the bottom of the balloon that one has to tap(using a PC BTW). I substituted the balloon for a rocket I found online and it suffers from the same problem. Is this normal OR an anomaly with the code (which brings me to the next query).
I would like to combine the two programs i.e. Balloon and Starship, this is what I have in mind.
When the balloon or substitute leaves the top of the screen the background starts to scroll down (if gravity takes over it must go the opposite way and start over, spaceship explodes on contact with platform {limited number of lives}).
Should you be able to keep the balloon(or in this case the Spaceship) going up the background increases in speed (gravity at this stage will still be a problem for the spaceship) and then morphs into the Starship background (gravity not a problem) and then has to contend with the asteroids and perhaps later on battle with enemy spaceships. Something like Tyrian.
Hopefully someone can help me with this query.
Thanks in advance.