Keep up the great work mate!

That is really a great help to the community. You're the best!

Thanks Jon & Biffy for your generous sharing.

@jonathanbeebe: Maybe I am worried about this more than I should be. I have actually adapted your clean function from ghost vs. monsters along with director class. My code is working nice and quick on my iPhone 4 but I haven't tested on an earlier device.

However, I have seen many people write on the forums that they are seeing memory leaks in their games. How do they know this? How do you check for a memory leak?

I know how to find errors using Terminal but not how to check memory leaks. Any info on that would be quite useful.

This is really great, thank you for sharing this.

I did find an issue that I have a question about. When I load the app for the first time, the music plays for the first game, but if I die and start the game again the music does not play. Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

Thanks for any help, and again thanks for sharing Jonathan!

Kevin

@ jonathanbeebe:
And there it is.
That is exactly what I was looking for. Ansca should make that article the front page on their docs section. Great job explaining everything.
You are truly a unique person for being so helpful and generous with your knowledge and time. It is very much appreciated!
Thanks!

Thank you very much!!! All of the available source code you guys have provided has helped me learn more about the Lua programming language and enable me to put my own twist in the apps I'm developing. I've learned so much in such a short amount of time. :D

Thank you Jonathan fro being very generous. This is an inspiration and assist for those new to this field. To have a complete source code of a full working app is so incredible! Thanks again!

@jonathanbeebe: THANK YOU! I have learned SO much from your code! I have to admit, I could not believe it when I first saw that you were release your code. But I am so glad you did. So again thank you so much.

After looking at your code for a long time, I am just curious about one thing. The clean() function. It seems that you clean mostly Runtime events but not display objects like background images and so on? Your apps works great on both Android and iPad so you must be doing something right (LOL) So I am wondering if I am not doing something wrong!

Right now each of my modules (menuScreen, optionsScreen, gameScreen and so on) have a clean() where I not only cancel Runtime events but also try to delete display objects using your method (from you site) which display.remove()

My question: Is is necessary to explicitly remove display objects when exiting each module? Your code seems to say no but I just wanted to make sure. by the way I am using Director 1.2 right now.

In any event, let me again says THANKS for not only the code but also your willingness to help this community. You are of course an asset!

Mo.

ps: anybody can comment on this issue of course.

Hey. You are really welcome!

Just to make sure (i m sorry if I am dense today!) Do I still need to use display.remove() in my clean()? You seems to say that display.remove() on a group will remove all the children objects BUT do I need to actual use that if I am using Director 1.2? my feeling is no and that Director removes all groups and objects at screen switching (but not Runtime listeners and transitions for instance)

Am I correct to think that?

Thanks for your super fast answer by the way!

Mo

ABSOLUTELY it helped! Thank you so much for getting back to me so rapidly. I appreciated it very much. It all make sense now.

THANKS.

Mo.

Thank you for Tilt Monster code Jonathan someday I will buy a beer for that. Now my lua learning process increased twice.

Is there a way to control this game on an emulator?

can I use the code for making my game, with changing images and some properties of the game ??

THank u to much for the code, very helpful

For a variety of products we are working on at http://VisualsWork.com we plan on incorporating many of the features and game play of Jonathan and Biffy Beebe's (http://beebegames.kodingen.com/) open sourced Tilt Monster app ( http://developer.anscamobile.com/code/tilt-monster).

In an effort to complement Jonathan and Biffy Beebe's amazing generosity; as we learn from their work I plan on providing examples and source code of various aspects of the game at: http://www.pahgroup.com/index.php/blog/7-tilt-monster-open-source/

Best wishes,

Paul Allan Harrington
Visuals Work: { visualswork.com }
Consulting Group: { pahgroup.com }

Thanks man so much!!!

Any ideas on how to increase the number of lives?
I am really very bad playing this ; ))P
I will need a very-very-easy settings just for me!!

lol

@omarcaleroherrera2

Take a look at the startGame function in main.lua at line 90. Jonathan did a nice job commenting the code so it should be fairly easily to determine which lines of code to remark out and/or delete.

If I'm correct, I believe you could remark out and/or delete lines 91 - 133.

I did some lite testing and the above worked out successfully. If you have the Corona Simulator "Show Project Sandbox" (File | Show Project Sandbox), you'll be able to look at the rating.data file that is created to track the number of times the app is opened. Jonathan has the app set to request a rating on the 4th attempt. Deleting or remarking out lines 91 - 133 will no longer create and modify the rating.data file, so deleting it (rating.data) and making your code changes will help you determine if your on track. The file should not reappear if you make the correct modifications.

Best wishes,

Paul Allan Harrington
Visuals Work: { visualswork.com }
Consulting Group: { pahgroup.com }

After...

settings =
{
orientation =
{
default = "landscapeRight",
supported = { "landscapeRight", "lanscapeLeft" },
},

...

The game in general works well except the tilt that move in oposite way if "lanscapeLeft" : (((

Is there a way to control this?
@bebee, please HELP!! ; ))P

Why the in game music stop play when you restart the game, i mean retry the round ?
Edit: Never mind figured out my self.

Ok @info242 here we go, open maingame.lua and change runningSound by gameMusic3 on LINE 1317.
Everytime you start the game by default gameMusic3 is played, when you press TryAgain the runningSound is activated.

Many thanks for @jonathanbeebe because i'm not a programmer and that source code let me learn more and more everyday.

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        -- Setup "Try Again" Button
                local touchTryAgainBtn = function( event )
                        if event.phase == "release" and tryAgainBtn.isActive == true then
                                
                                tryAgainBtn.isActive = false
                                
                                -- Play Sound >>> play sound active search
                                local soundsOn = gameSettings[ "soundsOn" ]
                                
                                if soundsOn == true then
                                        local freeChan = audio.findFreeChannel()
                                        audio.play( tapSound, { channel=freeChan } )
                                        
                                        local freeChan2 = audio.findFreeChannel()
                -- LINE 1317                    audio.play( runningSound, { loops=-1, channel=freeChan2 } )
                                end
                                
                                recycleRound()
                        end
                end

BGM has not been played on my ipod touch after ios 5 update.

Does anybody have the same problem?

Hi everyone. I find the Martian Control code made by Jhonatan and Im trying to do the ships land in the planets without drawing a path, I mean, each planet be the goal of certain ships, so you have to touch them to destroy before they land. But I dont know how to do that. Any idea on how to do that?

Thanks

all I can say is Thank you..

I had a question about the facebook part. For my app I wanted to have a post score to facebook but I had a problem: Failed to index global function "facebook" on last line and in function "on event"

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local touchFBBtn = function( event )
                        if event.phase == "release" then
                                
                                -- BELOW IS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TO GET FACEBOOK SCORE POSTING TO WORK:
                                
                                
                                -- Play Sound
                                local soundsOn = gameSettings[ "soundsOn" ]
                                
                                if soundsOn == true then
                                        local freeChan = audio.findFreeChannel()
                                        audio.play( tapSound, { channel=freeChan } )
                                end
                                
                                --
                                
                                local facebookListener = function( event )
                                        if ( "session" == event.type ) then
                                                -- upon successful login, update their status
                                                if ( "login" == event.phase ) then
                                                        
                                                        local gameScore = getScore()
                                                        gameScore = comma_value(gameScore)
                                                        
                                                        local theMessage
                                                        
                                                        if gameSettings[ "difficulty" ] == "easy" then
                                                                theMessage = "just scored a " .. gameScore .. " on Alien Falls (Easy Mode)."
                                                        
                                                        elseif gameSettings[ "difficulty" ] == "medium" then
                                                                theMessage = "just scored a " .. gameScore .. " on Alien Falls (Medium Difficulty)."
                                                        
                                                        elseif gameSettings[ "difficulty" ] == "hard" then
                                                                theMessage = "just scored a " .. gameScore .. " on Alien Falls (Hard Mode)."
                                                        
                                                        end
                                                        
                                                        facebook.request( "me/feed", "POST", {
                                                                message=theMessage,
                                                                name="Download Alien Falls to Compete with Me!",
                                                                caption="Think you can beat my score of " .. gameScore .. "? I dare you to try!",
                                                                link="http://itunes.apple.com/app/alien-falls/id506423125?mt=8",
                                                                picture="http://tiwwas.com/wp-content/themes/FBAPPICON.png" } )
                                                end
                                        end
                                end
                                
                                -- replace "---" below with your Facebook App ID
                                 facebook.login( "***************", listener, {"publish_stream"}  )
                        
                        end
                end
<code>
to clarify the issue is on line "########", listener.... any idea what i did wrong or how to fix it?