Moving through Levels using Tables.

Games
#1

Hello everyone, I am working on a game that has four mini games in it. In the first mini game I have a balloon pop type of game and I want the game to move to the next level after the balloons on the current level are popped I was trying to follow along in this tutorial http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/corona/create-a-brick-breaker-game-with-the-corona-sdk-game-controls/
but I can’t seem to get that to work with what I am doing. Any ideas would be great. Right now i have the levels setup in the tables like in that tutorial and this is the code I have that builds the level. Any ideas or links would be greatly appreciated and just a note that the director moves between mini games so trying to avoid using that to change levels.

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function buildLevel(level)

local len = table.maxn(level)
balloons:toFront()

for i = 1, len do
for j = 1, W_LEN do
if(level[i][j] == 1) then
local balloon = display.newImage(“images/Lvl_1/Blue_Bln_Down.png”)
balloon.name = “balloon”
balloon.x = BALLOON_W * j - OFFSET
balloon.y = BALLOON_H * i
physics.addBody(balloon, {density = .5, friction = 0, bounce = 0})
balloon.bodyType = ‘static’
balloons.insert(balloons, balloon)
end
end
end

end

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#2

I know that was kind of vague here is the code for the whole level.

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module(…, package.seeall)

–====================================================================–
– SCENE: BALLOON LEVEL
–====================================================================–

–[[

  • Version: 0.1
  • Made by Ninja Carnival Team @ 2011

******************

  • INFORMATION
    ******************

  • Balloon Level

–]]

new = function ( params )

– Imports
local ui = require ( “ui” )

– Groups
local localGroup = display.newGroup()

– Variables
local levelTimer = 15
local BALLOON_W = 41
local BALLOON_H = 21
local OFFSET = 23
local W_LEN = 8
local balloons = display.newGroup()
local toRemove = {}
local gameIsActive = true
local currentLevel = 1

– start physics
local physics = require(“physics”)
physics.start()
physics.setGravity(0,0 )

–Pre-load sounds
sounds = {
pop = audio.loadSound(“audio/balloonPopFinal.wav”)
}

–setup levels 1 through 10
local levels = {}
levels[1] = {{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
{0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0},
{0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0},
{0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0},
{0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0},
{0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0},
{0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0},
{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},}

levels[2] = {{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
{0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0},
{0,0,1,0,0,1,0,0},
{0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0},
{0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0},
{0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0},
{0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0},
{0,0,1,1,1,1,0,0},}

levels[3] = {{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
{0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0},
{0,1,0,0,0,0,1,0},
{0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0},
{0,1,0,1,1,0,1,0},
{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
{0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0},
{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},}

levels[4] = {{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
{0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0},
{1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1},
{1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1},
{1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1},
{1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1},
{1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1},
{1,0,0,0,0,0,0,1},
{1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1},}

– Display Objects
local background = display.newImage(“images/Lvl_1/Level_1_BG.png”)

local gun = display.newImage(“images/Lvl_1/goldenGun3.png”)

– Player Stats
local statTextSize = 16
local score = 0
local scoreNum = display.newText(0, 0, 0, native.systemFontBold, statTextSize)
local scoreText = display.newText(“SCORE:”, 0, 0, native.systemFontBold, statTextSize)
local gameTimer = 20
local gameTimerText = display.newText(“20”, 0, 0, native.systemFontBold, statTextSize)
local statsBackground = display.newRect(0,0,_W,scoreText.height+2.5)

– BUTTONS

– FUNCTIONS

–function for collision detection

local function onCollision(self, event)
if self.name == “dart” and event.other.name == “balloon” then
score = score + 100
scoreNum.text = score

audio.play(sounds.pop)
table.insert(toRemove, event.other)
balloons.numChildren = balloons.numChildren - 1
end
if balloons.numChildren == 0 then
–destroyLevel()
currentLevel = currentLevel +1
buildLevel(currentLevel)
end

end

–rotate gun
local rotDirection = 1
local function gunRotation(event)
gun.rotation = gun.rotation + rotDirection
if gun.rotation > 90 then
rotDirection = -1
elseif gun.rotation < -80 then
rotDirection = 1
end
end

–function for firing the dart
local function fireDart(event)
local dart = display.newImage(“images/Lvl_1/dart.png”)
dart.name = “dart”
dart:setReferencePoint(display.CenterReferencePoint);
dart.x = gun.x
dart.y = gun.y
dart.rotation = gun.rotation
physics.addBody(dart, “dynamic”, {density=1.0, friction=0.5, bounce=0.0})
local speed = 1000
local velocity = {}
velocity.x = math.cos( math.rad( dart.rotation - 90 ) ) * speed
velocity.y = math.sin( math.rad( dart.rotation - 90 ) ) * speed
dart:applyForce(velocity.x, velocity.y, dart.x, dart.y)
dart.collision = onCollision;
dart:addEventListener(“collision”, dart);

end

–function for creating level
function buildLevel(level)

local len = table.maxn(level)
balloons:toFront()

for i = 1, len do
for j = 1, W_LEN do
if(level[i][j] == 1) then
local balloon = display.newImage(“images/Lvl_1/Blue_Bln_Down.png”)
balloon.name = “balloon”
balloon.x = BALLOON_W * j - OFFSET
balloon.y = BALLOON_H * i
physics.addBody(balloon, {density = .5, friction = 0, bounce = 0})
balloon.bodyType = ‘static’
balloons.insert(balloons, balloon)
end
end
end

end

– function for changing levels

–function that handles endgame details
local function endGame(event)
if gameTimer == 0 then
local gameOverText = display.newText(“Game Over!”, 0, 0, native.systemFont, 35)
gameOverText:setTextColor(100, 255, 100)
gameOverText.x = display.contentWidth / 2
gameOverText.y = display.contentHeight / 2
gameEvent = “lose”
Runtime:removeEventListener( “enterFrame”, gunRotation);
Runtime:removeEventListener(“tap”, fireDart);
Runtime:removeEventListener(“collision”, dart);
end
end

– PARAMETERS

– INITIALIZE
local initVars = function ()
– Inserts
localGroup:insert(background)
localGroup:insert(statsBackground)
localGroup:insert(scoreText)
localGroup:insert(gameTimerText)

– Positions

– score positions
scoreText.x = (scoreText.width * 0.5) + 10
scoreText.y = (scoreText.height * 0.5) + 5
scoreNum:setReferencePoint(display.CenterLeftReferencePoint);
scoreNum.x = scoreText.width + 5
scoreNum.y = scoreText.y

– timer position
gameTimerText.x = _W * 0.5
gameTimerText.y = scoreText.y

– gun position
gun:setReferencePoint(display.centerReferencePoint);
gun.x = display.contentWidth / 2
gun.y = display.contentHeight - 30

– Colors
–background:setFillColor(255,255,255)
statsBackground:setFillColor(50,0,0)

scoreText:setTextColor(255,0,0)
scoreNum:setTextColor(255,0,0)
gameTimerText:setTextColor(255,0,0)

– Listeners

Runtime:addEventListener( “enterFrame”, gunRotation);
Runtime:addEventListener(“tap”, fireDart);
buildLevel(levels[1]);

end

– Initiate variables
initVars()

– Update
local update = function ( event )
for i = 1, #toRemove do
toRemove[i].parent:remove(toRemove[i])
toRemove[i] = nil
end

end

Runtime:addEventListener(“enterFrame”, endGame)
Runtime:addEventListener(“enterFrame”, update);

local updateTimer = function( event )
gameTimer = gameTimer - 1
if gameTimer <= 0 then gameTimer = 0
end
gameTimerText.text = gameTimer
scoreNum:setReferencePoint(display.CenterLeftReferencePoint);
scoreNum.x = scoreText.width + 5
scoreNum.y = scoreText.y

end
timer.performWithDelay(1000, updateTimer, 60)

– Clear objects
local clear = function ()

end

– MUST return a display.newGroup()
return localGroup
end

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