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Corona SDK Mobile Game Development: Beginner's Guide

Corona SDK Mobile Game Development: Beginner's Guide

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Corona SDK Mobile Game Development: Beginner's Guide

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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)
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Corona SDK Mobile Game Development Beginner's Guide
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Corona SDK Mobile Game Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Getting Started With Corona SDK
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Getting Started With Corona SDK
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Downloading and installing Corona
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Time for action – setting up and activating Corona on Mac OS X
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Time for action – setting up and activating Corona on Windows
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Using the simulator on Mac and Windows
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Time for action – viewing a sample project in the simulator
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Choosing a text editor
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Developing on devices
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Time for action – downloading and installing Xcode
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Time for action – creating a Hello World application in two lines of code
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Time for action – modifying our application
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Time for action – applying a new font name to your application
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Testing our application on an iOS device
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Time for action – obtaining the iOS developer certificate
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Time for action – adding/registering your iOS device
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Time for action – creating an App ID
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Time for action – creating a Provisioning Profile
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Creating the Hello World build for iOS
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Time for action – creating an iOS build
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Time for action – loading an app on your iOS device
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Testing our application on an Android device
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Creating the Hello World build for Android
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Time for action – creating an Android build
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Time for action – loading an app on your Android device
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Summary
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Lua Crash Course and the Corona Framework
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Lua Crash Course and the Corona Framework
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Lua to the rescue
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Valuable variables
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Types of values
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Time for action – printing values using blocks
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Expressions
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Strings
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Time for action – getting our hands full of strings
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Tables
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Objects
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Images
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Time for action – placing images on screen
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Runtime configuration
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Time for action – scaling display objects on multiple devices
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Time for some shapes
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Functions
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Optimizing your workflow
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Summary
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Building our First Game: Breakout
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Building our First Game: Breakout
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Breakout—bringing back old-school gaming
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Understanding Corona physics API
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Configuring the application
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Time for action – adding build.settings file
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Time for action – adding config.lua file
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Building the application
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Time for action – creating variables for the game
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Understanding events and listeners
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Transitions
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Creating menu screens
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Time for action – adding the main menu screen
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Creating the gameplay scene
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Time for action – adding game objects
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Time for action – building bricks
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Red alert!
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Time for action – displaying game messages
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Summary
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Game Controls
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Game Controls
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Moving in the up direction
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Let's get even more physical
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Time for action – starting physics for the paddle and ball
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Paddle movement
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Time for action – dragging the paddle in the simulator
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Time for action – moving the paddle with accelerometer
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Ball collision with paddle
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Time for action – making the ball bounce against the paddle
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Removing objects from the scene
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Brick by brick
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Time for action – removing the bricks
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Directional changes
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Time for action – updating the ball
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Transitioning levels
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Time for action – resetting and changing levels
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You win some, you lose some
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Time for action – making win and lose conditions
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Activating event listeners
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Time for action – adding game listeners
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The results are in!
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Summary
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Animating our Game
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Animating our Game
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Panda star catcher
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Let's get everything moving
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The value of timed functions
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Movieclips or sprite sheets. What's the difference?
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Movieclips
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It's sprite mania!
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Game time!
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Time for action – setting up the variables
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Let's start the round
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Time for action – starting the game
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Poof begone!
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Time for action – reloading the panda on the stage
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Earn some points
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Time for action – tracking the score
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When the game ends
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Time for action – displaying the game over screen
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Background display
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Time for action – adding the background elements
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Heads up!
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Time for action – displaying the timer and score
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Time after time
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Time for action – setting up the timer
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It's so glowy
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Time for action – making the power shot
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Pandas!
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Time for action – creating the panda character
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Starry skies
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Time for action – creating star collisions
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Screen touches
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Time for action – launching the panda
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Organizing display objects
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Time for action – reordering layers
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Create stars
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Time for action – creating stars in the level
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Starting the game
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Time for action – initializing the game
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Summary
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Playing Sounds and Music
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Playing Sounds and Music
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Corona Audio System
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Time to play
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Time for action – playing audio
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Time to take control
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Time for action – controlling audio
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Memory management
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Alterations to audio
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Performance tips
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Summary
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Physics: Falling Objects
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Physics: Falling Objects
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Creating our new game: Egg Drop
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Time for action – setting up the variables
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Time for action – moving the character
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Time for action – setting the score
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Time for action – drawing the background
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Time for action – designing the HUD
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Time for action – counting the lives
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Time for action – creating the character
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Time for action – creating the egg collision
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Time for action – adding the egg object
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Time for action – making the egg drop
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Time for action – calling game over
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Time for action – activating the game
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Summary
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Operation Storyboard
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Operation Storyboard
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Continuation of Egg Drop
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Data saving
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Time for action – saving and loading the high score
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Pausing the game
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Time for action – pausing the game
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Storyboard API
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Time for action – altering the game file
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Organizing the game
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Time for action – adding the new main.lua file
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New game transitions
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Time for action – changing screens after the game is over
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Creating a loading screen
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Time for action – adding the loading screen
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Creating a main menu
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Time for action – adding a main menu
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Creating an options menu
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Time for action – adding an options menu
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Creating a credits screen
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Time for action – adding a credits screen
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Summary
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Handling Multiple Devices and Networking your Apps
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Handling Multiple Devices and Networking your Apps
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Return to configuration
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Networking your apps
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Time for action – adding Twitter in your apps
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Time for action – adding Facebook to your apps
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Facebook Connect
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Time for action – posting scores using Facebook Connect
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The wonders of OpenFeint
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OpenFeint in a jiffy
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Time for action – setting up OpenFeint leaderboards and achievements in Egg Drop
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Summary
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Optimizing, Testing, and Shipping your Games
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Optimizing, Testing, and Shipping your Games
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Understanding memory efficiency
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Distributing iOS applications
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Time for action – setting up your distribution certificate and provisioning profile for the App Store
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iTunes Connect
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Time for action – managing your application in iTunes Connect
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Building an iOS application for distribution in Corona
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Time for action – building your application and uploading to Application Loader
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The Google Play Store
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Time for action – signing your app for the Google Play Store
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Time for action – submitting an app to the Google Play Store
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Summary
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Implementing In-App Purchases
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Implementing In-App Purchases
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The wonders of In-App Purchase
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Corona's store module
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Create an In-App Purchase
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Time for action – creating the In-App Purchase in iTunes Connect
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Time for action – using the Corona store module to create an In-App Purchase
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Testing In-App Purchases
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Time for action – testing the In-App Purchase with the Breakout In-App Purchase demo
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Summary
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Pop Quiz Answers
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Pop Quiz Answers
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Chapter 1, Getting Started With Corona SDK
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Chapter 2, Lua Crash Course and the Corona Framework
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Chapter 3, Building our First Game: Breakout
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Chapter 4, Game Controls
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Chapter 5, Animating our Game
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Chapter 6, Playing Sounds and Music
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Chapter 7, Physics: Falling Objects
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Chapter 8, Operation Storyboard
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Chapter 9, Handling Multiple Devices and Networking your Apps
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Chapter 10, Optimizing, Testing, and Shipping your Games
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Chapter 11, Implementing In-App Purchases

Chapter 9. Handling Multiple Devices and Networking your Apps

Allowing your application to integrate with social networks is a great way to promote your finished product. Many games enable the player to upload their high scores and share them among other users playing the same title. Some provide challenges that need to be completed successfully in order to unlock achievements. Social networks enhance the gaming experience and provide great exposure for the developer.

We'll also go into more detail about build configuration since we're getting more accustomed to programming. Understanding the importance of configuring your device builds is mandatory for cross-platform development. This is a capability that Corona SDK can handle with ease across iOS and Android devices.

In this chapter, we will learn the following topics:

  • Revisiting configuration settings

  • Posting messages to Twitter

  • Posting messages to Facebook

  • Adding achievements and leaderboards with OpenFeint

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