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Corona SDK Mobile Game Development: Beginner's Guide

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Corona SDK Mobile Game Development: Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Corona SDK is the fastest and easiest way to create commercially successful cross platform mobile games. Just ask Robert Nay, a 14 year old who created Bubble Ball - downloaded three million times, famously knocking Angry Birds off the top spot. You don't need to be a programming veteran to create games using Corona. Corona SDK is the number one tool for creating fun, simple blockbuster games. Assuming no experience at all with programming or game development you will learn the basic foundations of Lua and Corona right through to creating several monetized games deployable to Android and Apple stores. You will begin with a crash course in Lua, the programming language underpinning the Corona SDK tool. After downloading and installing Corona and writing some simple code you will dive straight into game development. You will start by creating a simple breakout game with controls optimized for mobile. You will build on this by creating two more games incorporating different features such as falling physics. The book ends with a tutorial on social network integration, implementing in app purchase and most important of all monetizing and shipping your game to the Android and App stores.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Corona SDK Mobile Game Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Testing our application on an iOS device


If you are only interested in testing the application on an Android device, please skip past this section of the chapter to Testing Our Application on an Android Device. Before we can upload our first Hello World application on an iOS device, we need to log in to our Apple Developer account so we can create and install our signing certificates on our development machine. If you haven't created a Developer account yet, please do so at http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/. Remember that there is a fee of $99 a year to become an Apple Developer.

Note

The Apple Developer account is only applied to users developing on Mac OS X. Make sure your version of Xcode is the same as or newer than the version of the OS on your phone. For example, if you have version 5.0 of the iPhone OS installed you will need Xcode that is bundled with the iOS SDK version 5.0 or later.