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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

Storyboard API


The Storyboard API provides an easy solution for developers to control scenes with or without transitions. This is a great scene-management library for displaying menu systems and even managing multiple levels in a game. Storyboard also comes with a variety of transition effects. A listing of them can be found on the storyboard.gotoScene() API reference page at: http://developer.anscamobile.com/reference/index/storyboardgotoscene.

More information on the Storyboard API can be found on the Anscamobile website at: http://developer.anscamobile.com/content/storyboard.

Our scene management will look similar to the scene template displayed at: http://developer.anscamobile.com/reference/index/scene-template.

You can also download the Storyboard Sample Code from https://github.com/ansca/Storyboard-Sample and run the project file in the Corona simulator to get familiar with how it works.

Game development with Storyboard API

You may wonder how we're going to apply Storyboard with Egg Drop...