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Flappy Bird (with Lua) - CS50's Intro to Game Development

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This introductory course guides learners through building a Flappy Bird-style game with Lua. It covers progressively adding parallax, gravity, pipes, collision detection, game states, countdowns, audio, and mouse input.

Syllabus

) Introduction.
) The Day-0 Update.
) The Parallax Update.
) Games Are Illusions.
) The Bird Update.
) The Gravity Update.
) The Anti-Gravity Update.
) The Infinite Pipe Update.
) The PipePair Update.
) The Collision Update.
) The State Machine Update.
) The Countdown Update.
) The Audio Update.
) The Mouse Update.

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