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Development Game Development Corona SDK/Solar2D

Beginning Mobile Game Development with Solar2D

Discover how to use the Solar2D framework to create your own mobile games.
Rating: 4.4 out of 54.4 (120 ratings)
1,312 students
Created by J. A. Whye
Last updated 9/2020
English
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What you'll learn

  • After completing the lessons you will have the knowledge to create your own mobile game for iOS or Android.
  • You will learn animating objects and sprites, how to play audio and sound effects, and even how to structure a complete game.

Course content

14 sections • 64 lectures • 8h 46m total length

  • Preview00:20
  • Preview00:38

  • Installing the Corona SDK Framework
    01:24
  • Preview00:40
  • Quick Look at Using Outlaw
    Preview06:26
  • Downloading the Sample Code
    00:30

  • Preview04:01
  • Preview10:19
  • Preview07:59
  • Preview05:37
  • Preview10:49
  • Preview06:20

  • Display Images
    13:45
  • Simple Animation
    10:50
  • Displaying Multiple Images (Pro Trick!)
    13:19
  • Triggering Code with Animations
    07:22

  • Event Driven Programming
    09:58
  • Listening for a Tap Event
    05:57
  • The Phases of Your Touch
    08:53
  • Dragging Display Objects
    08:26

  • Playing Short Sounds (Bleep, Bloop)
    Preview07:11
  • Playing Music
    11:40
  • Sidebar: Fixes for Previous Video
    05:22
  • Channel Management for Audio
    10:05
  • Channel Management Part 2
    03:15
  • Adding Audio to our Frog Project
    13:26
  • Tweaking an Audio File with Audacity Software
    Preview04:41

  • Create Text on the Screen
    11:35
  • Sidebar: Using anchorX/Y, not setReferencePoint()
    06:29
  • Using a Custom Font
    07:19
  • Building a Scoring Module
    10:48

  • Writing Data to a Text File
    10:44
  • Reading Data from a Text File - Pt 1
    08:01
  • Reading Data from a Text File - Pt 2
    05:09
  • Using a 3rd-Party Code Lib (GGData)
    13:36
  • Adding File I/O to the Froggy Game
    05:03

  • Setting Up Storyboard
    04:12
  • Understanding the Scene Template
    Preview07:14
  • Building a Storyboard App
    13:02
  • Storyboarding Our Froggy Game
    08:36

  • Intro to Animated Sprites and Image Sheets
    03:37
  • Preview05:43
  • Creating and Playing Sprite Sequences - Pt 1
    12:48
  • Creating and Playing Sprite Sequences - Pt 2
    09:24
  • Using Animated Sprites in the Frog Project
    07:53

Requirements

  • System Requirements: macOS® X 10.11 or later, Intel Mac
  • System Requirements: Windows XP or later, 1 GHZ processor

Description

Aimed at beginners, this video tutorial course will guide you through the creation of your own game for iOS or Android.

The  Solar2D framework used for this course is one of the most powerful 2D game engines available, and it's completely free so get started making your own games!

You Can Get Started, Right Now!

The videos can be viewed online and the sample code can be downloaded to your computer so you can follow along. Since it’s all online and all digital, you don’t have to wait, you can start finding out how to make your own game right now.

Play games other people make, or finally take control and make your own games.

"You got me up to speed in record time and my first game should be out in 4-6 weeks time. Congrats on an awesome course." - Tim Buchalka

Imagine how it will feel when people around the world download and play what you’ve created!

Who this course is for:

  • Aimed at beginners who have maybe poked around at Javascript or PHP. Or even someone with zero programming knowledge but a passion for making their own games.

Instructor

J. A. Whye
Course Instructor
J. A. Whye
  • 4.4 Instructor Rating
  • 1,469 Reviews
  • 143,529 Students
  • 6 Courses

Jay has been programming professionally since 1988, starting with game programming and then over the years moving to internet programming with a major Seattle telecommunications firm. Jay started programming for mobile devices in 2010 and currently has several games and apps in the Apple App Store with more on the way.

In addition to writing hundreds of technical articles over the years, Jay has recorded dozens of hours of tutorial videos. He's been a speaker at technical conferences and enjoys teaching how to make games and apps almost as much as making games and apps themselves.

Jay is a Certified Developer with Corona SDK, and is also diving into Unity to make 2D games and tutorials.

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