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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

Networking your apps


When you have completed developing your main game framework, it's good to think about how to network it if you decide to do so.

We all have used some kind of networking tool during some point in our lives, such as Twitter and Facebook. Maybe you currently use these applications, but the point is you've read updates from other users about a new game that came out or someone is spreading the word to download a game and compete with them. You can be that developer and develop the game they're talking about!

Incorporating networking mechanisms in your game does not have to be a hassle. It only takes several lines of code to get it working.

Posting to Twitter

Tweet, tweet, tweet… Twitter is a networking tool that connects you to the latest information that appeals to your interests. It is also a great tool to share information with others about your business and of course your game. Reach out to the game development audience by promoting your application.

In order for posting...