One Day With Corona.

Games
#1

Hello everybody!

This is the result of my “One Day With Corona” experiment :slight_smile: Please check the link:
http://gamez-factory.com/RhinoAndDino/OneDayWithCorona.zip

As you can see the game is about two dinosaurs friends taking turns one riding each other’s back in order to complete the adventure. This is of corse just one day draft of experimenting :slight_smile:

The drawings took me few hours and I used Flash IDE (hahah, old habits :stuck_out_tongue: ), and initially all drawings was vector work in flash and converted to png’s afterwards.

The dino run animation was exported to a swf and then used Texture Packer to convert the animation to spritesheets.

I found the Corona experience to be a pleasure till now with a very nice and clean workflow for developers, specially for casual gaming, and for this a BIG “thank you” to all the developer team!! Really! Also I must say that my experience with Corona was basically 0 before today, I was downloading the sdk before and compiling some projects to test the performance, but that’s it.

The coconut is moving using random intensity impulses from Box2D and also that was extremely simple to implement. I had the browser window open all-time with the corona api page and again, very fine and smooth browsing as the api’s are filled with very, very useful examples!

QUESTION: when my coconut is leaving the screen I just reposition-it on the right side by moving it’s image instance x and y and seems that the physics body also moves. Is this the correct way to do-it? What if I would wanted to put the coconut to sleep after it moves out of the screen? Can this be done?

So, this was my start learning corona experience :slight_smile: I am pleased by my game performance on devices, especially on iPhone. Please let me know your thoughts and any suggestions you mite have :slight_smile:

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#2

Thanks !

Glad to hear and looking fwd to see what you create.;

Carlos [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 23074 reply_id: 92279[/import]

#3

Hi ovidiu,

Thanks for taking the time to post about your experience with Corona! It’s great to hear that you’re having a great time, and that things are going smoothly for you. You’ll be glad to know that more great things in the realm of"user experience" are in the pipeline and will be making their way into the hands of Corona developers soon :slight_smile:

To answer you’re question about object movement, yes, you’d simply change the x/y properties of the object to move it. If you don’t want the physics body to be active, you can set the object.isBodyActive property to ‘false’ and then set it back to ‘true’ once you want it to be active in the physics world again.

Thanks again ovidiu—we’re looking forward to seeing your app in one (or more) of the app stores one of these days!

Jonathan [import]uid: 52430 topic_id: 23074 reply_id: 92287[/import]