Beginning Mobile Game Development with Solar2D

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Intro

Lecture 1: Read Me First!

Lecture 2: What You'll Discover

Chapter 2: Getting Ready

Lecture 1: Installing the Corona SDK Framework

Lecture 2: Installing the Outlaw IDE

Lecture 3: Quick Look at Using Outlaw

Lecture 4: Downloading the Sample Code

Chapter 3: Lua Boot Camp

Lecture 1: An Introduction to the Lua Language

Lecture 2: Variables

Lecture 3: Functions

Lecture 4: Tables

Lecture 5: Control Structures and Loops

Lecture 6: Intermediate: Passing Parameters

Chapter 4: Display and Animate Images

Lecture 1: Display Images

Lecture 2: Simple Animation

Lecture 3: Displaying Multiple Images (Pro Trick!)

Lecture 4: Triggering Code with Animations

Chapter 5: Touch and Tap Events

Lecture 1: Event Driven Programming

Lecture 2: Listening for a Tap Event

Lecture 3: The Phases of Your Touch

Lecture 4: Dragging Display Objects

Chapter 6: Make Some Noise – Music and Sound FX

Lecture 1: Playing Short Sounds (Bleep, Bloop)

Lecture 2: Playing Music

Lecture 3: Sidebar: Fixes for Previous Video

Lecture 4: Channel Management for Audio

Lecture 5: Channel Management Part 2

Lecture 6: Adding Audio to our Frog Project

Lecture 7: Tweaking an Audio File with Audacity Software

Chapter 7: Text as Display Objects

Lecture 1: Create Text on the Screen

Lecture 2: Sidebar: Using anchorX/Y, not setReferencePoint()

Lecture 3: Using a Custom Font

Lecture 4: Building a Scoring Module

Chapter 8: Saving and Loading Files

Lecture 1: Writing Data to a Text File

Lecture 2: Reading Data from a Text File – Pt 1

Lecture 3: Reading Data from a Text File – Pt 2

Lecture 4: Using a 3rd-Party Code Lib (GGData)

Lecture 5: Adding File I/O to the Froggy Game

Chapter 9: Scene Management with Storyboard

Lecture 1: Setting Up Storyboard

Lecture 2: Understanding the Scene Template

Lecture 3: Building a Storyboard App

Lecture 4: Storyboarding Our Froggy Game

Chapter 10: Sprite Animation

Lecture 1: Intro to Animated Sprites and Image Sheets

Lecture 2: Creating Image Sheets

Lecture 3: Creating and Playing Sprite Sequences – Pt 1

Lecture 4: Creating and Playing Sprite Sequences – Pt 2

Lecture 5: Using Animated Sprites in the Frog Project

Chapter 11: The Basics of Box2D Physics in Games

Lecture 1: Setting Up Your Physics World

Lecture 2: Creating Bounding Boxes for Physics Objects

Lecture 3: Raining Frogs Game

Lecture 4: Froggy's Collision Detection Pt 1

Lecture 5: Froggy's Collision Detection Pt 2

Chapter 12: Using Native Widgets

Lecture 1: Widget Changes! (Important)

Lecture 2: Making Buttons with Widgets

Lecture 3: Checkboxes with Widgets

Lecture 4: Level Selection with ScrollView

Lecture 5: Adding Options to Froggy

Chapter 13: Polishing Up the Frog Project

Lecture 1: Creating Levels

Lecture 2: Locking Levels

Lecture 3: Limiting Froggy to 1 Lily Pad Jump

Lecture 4: Drifting Text Objects – Part 1

Lecture 5: Drifting Text Objects – Part 2

Lecture 6: Using a Storyboard Overlay

Lecture 7: Tracking Your Analytics

Chapter 14: Bonus Goodies

Lecture 1: Complete Froggy Game Source Code

Lecture 2: Bonus Lecture: Free Courses For You