Unless you’re going to code the next Angry Birds and then just retire to a life of leisure, you’re going to be writing Lua and Corona SDK code over and over again. And starting from scratch every time is nice if you’re looking for finger exercises, but if you want to speed up your development [...]
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Shuffling data isn’t just something that a card game might need — in my game Match Game Magic I needed to shuffle picture objects between each level. In this article I’ll introduce you to some code that might help in your game. Even though it’s not just card games that can make use of shuffling, [...]
Read More cards, coding, corona sdk tutorial, lua, programming, shuffle, tableIf you’ve done any HTML work you’re probably familiar with setting colors using hexadecimal values, such as #FFFFFF for white, #000000 for black, and #FF30F0 for a weird pinkish-purple color. But in Corona SDK you set colors using those odd base-10 numbers, so that last color would be set using something like: blob:setFillColor(255, 48, 249) [...]
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