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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 In-App Purchases


You want to make sure that purchases work correctly. Apple provides a sandbox environment that allows you to test your app In-App Purchases. The sandbox environment uses the same model as the App Store, but does not process actual payments. Transactions return as if payments were processed successfully. It is a requirement to test In-App Purchases in a sandbox environment before submitting them for review by Apple.

When testing in the sandbox environment, you'll need to create a separate user test account that is different from your current iTunes Connect account. Using your current account is not allowed to test your store in the sandbox.

User test accounts

While logged into your iTunes Connect account, you'll have to select the Manage Users link from the home page. Select Test User on the Select User Type page. Add a new user and make sure that the test account uses an e-mail address that is not associated with any other Apple account. All test accounts should only...