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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

Time for action – downloading and installing Xcode


In order to develop any iOS application you will need to enroll in the Apple Developer Program, which costs $99 a year, and create an account on the Apple website http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/.

  1. Click on the Enroll Now button and follow Apple's instructions to complete the process.

  2. When you have completed your enrollment, click on the iOS link under the section marked Dev Centers.

  3. If you are using Snow Leopard, scroll down to the Downloads section and download the current Xcode. If you are using Lion, you can download Xcode in the Mac App Store.

  4. Once you have fully downloaded Xcode, double-click on the .mpkg Installer package (icon is an open brown box). By default, Xcode will install in the folder /Developer. You will be asked to authenticate as an administrative user.

  5. Aftr you have entered your credentials, click on the OK button to complete the installation.

  6. When you have installed the Xcode developer tools, you can access the documentation by launching Xcode and choosing any of the items in the Help menu. Developer applications such as Xcode and Instruments are installed in /Developer/Applications. You can drag those following app icons to your Dock for convenient accessibility.

What just happened?

We just went through the steps of how to install Xcode to Mac OS X. By enrolling in the Apple Developer Program, you will have access to up-to-date development tools on the website. Remember that to continue being an Apple Developer you have to pay a fee of $99 annually to keep your subscription.

The Xcode file is quite large so it will take a bit of time to download depending on how fast your Internet connection is. When your installation is complete, Xcode will be ready to go.