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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

Developing on devices


Apple's developer kit Xcode or the Android SDK is not necessary to download if you only want to use the Corona Simulator. In order to build and test your code on an iOS device (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad), you will need to sign up as an Apple Developer and create and download provisioning profiles. If you want to develop on Android, you don't need to download the Android SDK unless you want to use the ADB tool to help with installing builds and viewing debug messages.

The trial version of Corona Simulator allows building Adhoc (for iOS) and Debug builds (Android) for testing on your own devices. The builds will contain a Trial User message box when the app runs on the device. You will need to purchase a Corona Subscription if you want to build for Apple's App Store or Android's Google Play Store. Corona Subscribers also get the benefit of subscriber-only features such as access to Daily Builds, Subscribers Only areas on the Corona forums and LaunchPad.