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ar2rsawseen

Hello everybody,

Here is a template, I'm using in my games. It doesn't implement any game logic (well it does, but only for demonstration purpose), but it handles pretty much all the rest that is needed, leaving you with fun part - creating your game logic.

My code might be unreadable and seem unlogic, tried to comment it. But if you'll have questions, feel free to ask.

So here are current template features:

Start scene
- With menu
Help page
- With description text
Options
- Ability to save settings
- Toggle music and sounds as example
Package select
- Using AceSlide
- Packages read from external json file
Level Select
- With provided level quantity (configured for up to 20 levels)
Level scene
- Level reset
- Pause/resume game
- Next level logic
- Sub menu
Locked/unlocked packs
- Need to complete previous pack to unlock next one
Locked/unlocked levels
- Need to complete previous level to unlock next one
Save current pack and level
- To allow easy selecting from current state
Save game progress
- Save unlocked packs an levels
Scores
- Track and didplay score
- Save highscore for each level
Background music example
Optional sounds example
Gideros Autoscaling

And a video demo:

I'm uploading it to my website, so I'd have only one place to update it, etc. (As I'll be using it myself, I hope it will be upgraded with more features, etc).

http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Gideros-Mobile-Game-Template

And of course, feel free to use it even in commercial projects ;)

adnaan

First the scene manager, then the ebook template, runner template and now this, it's Christmas at Gideros.

:)

gorkem

I call this "pure productivity" :O

I shouldn't sleep to catch up with you :-t

GregBUG

@ar2rsawseen
Thanks this is very very useful. ;;)
Thanks again.
Gianluca.

ar2rsawseen

Well after numerous crossplatform frameworks, Gideros was a breath of fresh air. It's easy and fun developing games in Gideros. ;)

atilim

great! <:-P

Falcon

Nice work! :)

mykyl66

Thank you.

Anything that speeds up the non game mechanic is welcomed by me.

Mike

OZ Apps

In view of the comments that a lot of users from alternative frameworks make about the community being small and not enough tutorials, this is a good show of community build tutorials/templates and as more people join and ask questions, we will have more answers. If users do not ask questions then all the answers will just be called Documentation.

ar2rsawseen, congratulations. Add this to the eBook template and the Block Jump template, things will only get better (as I understand from Atilim)

ar2rsawseen

One bug already found, reported to me and fixed. Better now than in app release.

That's why I love contributing :)

SPDApps

Wow thanks everyone on this forum is so nice >:D<

b83dev

I can't thank you enough for this! :) It will be a great resource to study and learn from.

MikeJensen

Thank you. This is a great helper for learning Gideros development.

fxone

Hello, I got it. Thank you for this stuff.

AxlFlame

Hi, first of all i wanna thank you for this great template. It's been helping me a lot in learning more about Gideros.
If it's not too much trouble, could you help me with something?

It's regarding saving and erasing data in Gideros, i saw that you have the dataSaver class, i wanted to know if there is a way to erase the game data using that class?

I know it's probably something really basic, but i'm really new at this =/

Thanks again!

ar2rsawseen

well not really erasing, but you can simply overwrite something over, like empty string "" or empty table {}

AxlFlame

Nice! It worked out. Thanks for the help.

If you don't mind, I have one more issue ._.

This time I was trying to replicate the Description part from level.lua on a level selection so it would display before the minigame started, not just when it enters the level scene.

The ideia is that I have my level selection screen and 4 pre-defined levels. When the player clicks on one of the levels, the description of the chosen level would pop-up and when he clicks on it, the level would actually start.

I tried something but I really can't tell if i'm on the right track =/
What would be the best way of creating this? Please, help me x.x'

The description function is attached.

Thanks. And sorry if these are dumb questions. I'm having a hard time learning Gideros and Lua.

ar2rsawseen

Question, and when you end level, you simply go back to level select and let user select next level? It could be frustrating and I'd recommend to simply load next available level. But then again it means user won't see new description. :)

But that just my comments

About your code, does it work at all?

Ok, I don't know if you miscopied it, but you need to close (if showDescription then) statement with end and also whole desc function.

also mousedown event is defined as a part of level class, but it is not used in level class and you haven't attached that mousedown handler to anywhere.

And I'd suggest to put description texts together with levels, that way you won't have to create long if statements to see which text to show now. Well of course in depends on how you store levels.

All in all you reminded me that I need to redo GameTemplate. When I opened it and saw the code, I was like, OMG did I really write this? Can't understand anything.

I'll need to make it more object oriented, create and reuse some common components, comment it more, separate configuration and include levels as example and probably much more.

Just need to find the time to do that :D

I've attached quickly edited template to suit your needs ;)

Mells

ar2rsawseen said:
I'll need to make it more object oriented, create and reuse some common components, comment it more, separate configuration and include levels as example and probably much more.

@ar2rsawseen very interested to check your rewrite :)

tuanleanh

Great template. I'm a Gideros newbie, I have a question: what should we do if we have a lot of levels - about 50-100. Hope to see your idea.
(My English is not good)
Thank you.

phongtt

Tuan? Do we know each other? :D

tuanleanh

I know guava7, but we don't know each other :D

bernard

adnaan said:
First the scene manager, then the ebook template, runner template and now this, it's Christmas at Gideros.

:)

Where do I find this ebook template?

I searched for ebook and template as well as both words but cannot find it.
Maybe there should be a section where these templates are easily found and downloaded.

talis

hi @bernard,

You can look to Gideros Academy for the details of those templates from here,

http://www.giderosmobile.com/gideros-academy/

And also don/t forget o check http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

Harri

Thanks, this is very very useful.

paul_k_clark

Excellent now all I need to do is finish my game :)

TsubasaOzora

can someone upload the file that uploaded on ar2rsawseen website ? seems to me his site is not working anymore.

ar2rsawseen

@TsubasaOzora really, you can't access http://appcodingeasy.com/ ?

Well I think that most of the published files are also somewhere on https://github.com/ar2rsawseen

TsubasaOzora

@ar2rsawseen wew. sry . previously i try and cant open.. but now can

btw thanks for your template.

ar2rsawseen

@TsubasaOzora there is also a newer and more structured version, but unfortunately not completely finished and without docs, so if you don't mind going through the code to understand everything, then you can try it! ;)
https://github.com/ar2rsawseen/GameTemplate

pedroluis5

ar2rsawseen how can i erase all save data on this template.. i wanna add a button on option menu to do this.

tks

ar2rsawseen

hmm, well right no you could overwrite it.

Like nilling or emptying or writing default values

dataSaver.saveValue("|D|somevalue", nil)

And writing empty tables for files

dataSaver.save("|D|mydata", {})

But I guess that would be one of the functionalities, I could add in time (to delete files)

xGuilt

Just a question, i've set my first pack to only have 1 level (Supposed to be an introduction only with some cut scene) and after that, the player could proceed to the next pack but after finishing the first pack with only 1 level, the second pack doesn't unlock. How can i set when a pack unlocks or a certain pack unlocking after a certain level is finished. Like the third pack after clearing level 6 of the 2nd pack even if that pack has 10 or more levels?

ar2rsawseen

Hello @xGuilt ;)
If you check the GameTemplate repository: https://github.com/ar2rsawseen/GameTemplate

You'll see there is a class GameManager, which is just a simple example of how you could manage your games, unlock levels, save scores etc.

https://github.com/ar2rsawseen/GameTemplate/blob/master/classes/GameManager.lua

Usually you would create an instance of GameManager providing current pack and level, and call :unlockLevel(pack, level)
There is also a method :getNextLevel(pack, level, unlock) which gives you pack and level of next level and bool to unlock it or not, so you could jump to next level immediately.

xGuilt

Oh i see, hm the game template i got here doesn't seem to have the GameManager.lua weird.

Let me see if i got this right. In the end of a level or game, i'm supposed to run the functions:

GameManager:setScore("IntroPack", 1)
GameManager:getNextLevel("2ndPack", 1, True)

to save the score for the current pack then move on to the next level or pack. Am i right?

ar2rsawseen

@xGuilt it should be more like:

--first you load your packs info somewhere in main lua probably
--load packs and level amounts from packs.json
packs = dataSaver.load("packs")

then in your level scene:

--then I usually store current pack and level somewhere I can access it globally
--either global variables or global settings class
curPack = 1
curLevel = 1
 
--create instance of game manager providing pack info and player identification
local gm = GameManager.new(packs, playerid)
 
--then on the level complete save score
gm:getScore(curPack, curLevel)
 
--and get next pack and level and unlock it
--it will switch to next pack if this was the last level in the pack automatically
curPack, curLevel = gm:getNextLevel(curPack, curLevel, true)
 
if curPack then
    --if current pack is not nil it means there are more levels to play
    --then you can change the scene to next level
    --and curPack and curLevel would store the information of next pack and level
end

Something like that

xGuilt

ah, i see. So in every level i will store the current pack and level in a variable like what you did with the curPack and curLevel what i don't quite get is the

"curPack, curLevel = gm:getNextLevel(curPack, curLevel, true)
it would be like 1,1 = gm:getNextLevel(1,1,true) given that the current pack and level is 1. Or does the getNextLevel function moves from the current pack and level and not chosen specifically?

by the way, would you happen to have a simple sample for the application of this?

ar2rsawseen

For example you have pack 1 which has two levels and then pack 2 with three levels so the nextLevel method would work like

curPack, curLevel = 1, 1
curPack, curLevel = gm:getNextLevel(curPack, curLevel, true) --return 1, 2
curPack, curLevel = gm:getNextLevel(curPack, curLevel, true) --return 2, 1
curPack, curLevel = gm:getNextLevel(curPack, curLevel, true) --return 2, 2
curPack, curLevel = gm:getNextLevel(curPack, curLevel, true) --return 2, 3
curPack, curLevel = gm:getNextLevel(curPack, curLevel, true) --return nil, nil

unfortunately I had no time to create an example app, but most probably I will someday, or maybe we can create something together with community

xGuilt

ok, i've read the function in the gamemanager.lua. So it actually gets the current pack and level and adds 1 to the current level and if there aren't any more levels for that pack then it adds 1 to the pack and level goes back to 1.

It became much much more simple now. Thank you so much :D

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