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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

The Google Play Store


The Google Play Store is a publishing platform that helps you publicize, sell, and distribute your Android applications to users around the world.

To register as an Google Play developer and get started with publishing, visit the Google Play Android Developer Console site publisher site. You can sign up for an account at the following URL: https://play.google.com/apps/publish/.

Creating launcher icons

A launcher icon is a graphic that represents your application. Launcher icons are used by applications and appear on the user's home screen. Launcher icons can also be used to represent shortcuts into your application. These are similar to the icons created for iOS applications. The following are the launcher icon requirements, which also need to be in 32-bit .png format:

  • Icon-ldpi.png—36x36 px image. Needs to be at 120 dpi. Used for low-density screen.

  • Icon-mdpi.png—48x48 px image. Needs to be at 160 dpi. Used for medium-density screen.

  • Icon-hdpi.png—72x72 px image. Needs to...