Title screen to Game screen

roberthahn

Wow! My game is almost done! Which means, of course, I spend almost as much time again polishing and refining.

I looked at the tutorial titles, but nothing seemed to hint at what I'm looking for: How should I think about scene transitions?

For example, when the game loads, I want to show a title screen with a button that goes to the game, and another that goes to a help screen.

Is this all handled on the one stage, or do I create multiple stages and specify transitions between them? How are you solving this problem?

ndoss

@atilim posted a scene manager class a while back that might be what you're looking for. See: http://www.giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/314#Comment_314

The github repository: https://github.com/gideros/Scene-Manager
Blog entry: http://www.giderosmobile.com/blog/2011/11/17/gideros-scene-manager/

MikeHart

I am not using the scene manager. But I use several "stage" sprites. I call them groups.

Like grpBackground, grpGame, grpFX, grpMenu, grpTitle, etc.

These I transition in and out as needed.

GregBUG

hi mike!

in my game i am not using the scene maganer too.

i have 4 scene (mainmenu, ingame, endmenu, level info)
i silmply clean the stage (all child and events) all scene have his init and de-init (where i free the stage)

don't know is if correct but it works...
GidHelix is my first game written in "lua" and the source is a bit "spaghetti" code

hope to learn more "lua" coding...

MikeHart

Don't worry about cleaning it up before you are about to release it. Lua is very powerfull, but makes creating chaotic code very easy. Same goes for performance improvements. Don'tbeat this horse to death until you need to.

hnim

im using scene manager, and i think it's easy for me to control each scene

roberthahn

Thanks for the advice everyone. I'll have a look at the scene manager over the next day or two.