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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

Choosing a text editor


Corona does not have a designated program editor to code in so you will have to find one that suits your needs.

For Mac OS, TextWrangler is a good one and free too! You can download it at http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/download.html. Other text editors such as BBEdit at http://www.barebones.com/thedeck and TextMate at http://macromates.com/ are great, but you will need to purchase those in order to use them. TextMate is also compatible with the Corona TextMate Bundle: http://www.ludicroussoftware.com/corona-textmate-bundle/index.html.

For Microsoft Windows Notepad++ is recommended and can be downloaded at http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ or Crimson Editor at http://www.crimsoneditor.com/. Both editors are free.

Any text editor, such as TextEdit for Mac or Notepad for Windows, that is already included in each operating system works as well, but it'll be easier to work with one that is designed for programming. For Corona, using an editor that supports Lua syntax highlighting will work the best when coding. Syntax highlighting adds formatting attributes to keywords and punctuation in a way that makes it easier for the reader to separate code from text.