Hi everyone,
I started my corona learning journey last May and have just been coding small projects based on my app ideas, to learn the language and see what Corona can do.
My background is in engineering and education and in the past month, I’ve been working on prototyping an idea that allows the player to move numbers on a tile-based board. The numbers either decrease or increase according to the number of spaces a number is moved by. There is a toggle button that allows the player to toggle between decreasing or increasing.
The aim is to move the numbers such that 5 numbers line up in a column or a row of 5 tiles and meets one of three pre-defined combinations, which are found in poker; the straight, full house and 4 of a kind. Each successful combination rewards the player with points that are added to the current score. The game, for now, ends when all the tiles are filled with numbers, although i just realised that’s not really a good way, a better way is perhaps to detect when there only x amount of empty tiles left, i.e. when its almost impossible to form combinations and/or move numbers. In either case, its WIP 
so some rules are not yet fixed and will be in flux.
Importantly, I would like feedback on the concept itself, and since I’m new to app development in general, feedback on whether what kind of response will the market have to these type of apps. The few number based games I played is mainly sudoku and a web-based game called KenKen. My current understanding that my type of idea could be pretty niche and that’s ok for me, since my main focus is to understand the market, flex my creative muscles and learn about game(and even non-gaming) development, not necessarily to make the next app with a million downloads, although of course that would be awesome
So if you are interested to check out the prototype, do post your email in here, or PM me and I’ll send you an invite to my google drive download link. Thanks for reading!
Warm regards,
Eric
p.s. I have some ideas that would add some variation and change things a little, but i’m holding back on them to get feedback on the core gameplay first. Something I read about in a book.