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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 – setting up your distribution certificate and provisioning profile for the App Store


We have focused on creating development certificates and provisioning profiles to test and debug our apps on a device. Now we have to create a distribution version of them in order to submit an iOS application. Please be aware that Apple can change the design of their website at any time. So don't get frustrated if the steps and screenshots do not match up.

  1. Log in to your Apple Developer account and go to the iOS Provisioning Portal. Select App IDs. Create a new App ID that pertains to your application so you can identify it. If you have an existing App ID that you have been using during development, you can disregard this step. You can use an existing Bundle Seed ID if you choose to, otherwise select Generate New if this is your first in the bundle or if you simply want to create a new standalone application.

    In the Bundle Identifier (App ID Suffix) field, specify a unique identifier for...