What's a game without sound?  Sound and music can turn a boring humdrum game or movie into a riveting adventure, if done correctly! In this tutorial we are going to show the process to add a sound...

This tutorial will provide the basics of doing a simple object fade in and fade out using the alpha. Alpha is commonly used in game environments to cause objects to be not visible or only partially...

In this demonstration, we will take our existing Hello World project and add some animation. To get started, we have the existing code: local textObj = display.newText("Hello World!", 50, 50, nil,...

Recently my family became a two mobile platform household: iPhone and Android.  As an educator and developer, I am interested in supporting all platforms equally.  So, to support those members of...

Have you ever wondered why some people have a picture beside their blog comment and you don't? The little picture (or avatar) is an automatic feature with most blogging software, but if you haven't...

We are going to combine a few things with this lesson: First, we will learn about creating an object that can be interacted with Second, how to set the location of an object Third, we will...