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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

iTunes Connect


iTunes Connect is a suite of web-based tools that allows you to submit and manage your applications for distribution on the App Store. In iTunes Connect, you will be able to check the status of your contracts, set up your tax and banking information, obtain sales and finance reports, request promotional codes, manage users, applications, metadata, and your In-App Purchase catalog.

Contracts, tax, and banking

If you plan on selling your app, you need to have a paid commercial agreement in place so that it can be posted to the App Store. You will have to request a contract pertaining to iOS Paid Applications. All this is done through iTunes Connect under the Contracts, Tax, and Banking link.

When requesting contracts, be advised of potential issues that can occur, such as delays when Apple processes your information for the first time and/or changing your current contact information in iTunes Connect (that is, change of address if you have moved to a different location). It is...