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Corona SDK Mobile Game Development: Beginner's Guide

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Product type Book
Published in Mar 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783559343
Pages 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Michelle M Fernandez Michelle M Fernandez
Profile icon Michelle M Fernandez

Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Corona SDK Mobile Game Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with Corona SDK 2. Lua Crash Course and the Corona Framework 3. Building Our First Game – Breakout 4. Game Controls 5. Animating Our Game 6. Playing Sounds and Music 7. Physics – Falling Objects 8. Operation Composer 9. Handling Multiple Devices and Networking Your Apps 10. Optimizing, Testing, and Shipping Your Games 11. Implementing In-App Purchases Pop Quiz Answers Index

Paddle movement


Getting the paddle to move side to side is one of the key actions that needs to be accomplished. Part of the game design is to prevent the ball from reaching the bottom of the screen. We will be separating the paddle movement in the simulator and the accelerometer. The movement in the simulator enables us to test with touch events since accelerometer actions cannot be tested in the simulator.

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