Entries for the #CoronaDefoldJam are starting to show up! Today we preview one #MadeWithCorona candidate that’s still in development but looks amazing so far, Heavy Vertical.
The theme of the jam is “Running out of power” and, in this case, Corona developer Santi is translating the theme literall…
If you haven’t peeked into the Corona Marketplace recently, it now offers dozens of plugins and assets, from art packs to audio tracks to useful utility plugins. Periodically, we will highlight a few exciting products which can help you develop your dream app using Corona.
Mobile Game AudioThe Mo…
An area where #MadeWithCorona apps shine are educational apps. Frequently, when talking about educational apps, we think of apps for school-aged children, but there are other types of educational apps as well. Today, we explore The Ukulele App by Jon Howard.
Since launching the app on December 16…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Optimizing your graphicsMost Corona developers are happy with the performance of our engine and never give a thought to what’s going on under the hood, but there are …
Color — or even a lack of color — impacts every game ever created. Color is one of the primary emotional cues a designer can use to set the mood of a game and thus the player. In fact, understanding how to use color properly could be the difference between a hit app or one that gets almost no down…
Our current Facebook Audience Network (F.A.N.) monetization plugin was originally created as a “revenue-share” plugin where a small percentage (5%) of your Facebook Audience Network ads are credited to a Corona Labs account.
Now, just like we did with AppLovin earlier this year, we offer the Faceb…
If you haven’t peeked into the Corona Marketplace recently, it now offers dozens of plugins and assets, from art packs to audio tracks to useful utility plugins. Periodically, we will highlight a few exciting products which can help you develop your dream app using Corona.
Builder Game Audio
We want to remind you that we’re hosting a game jam with 10,000 installs as the main prize, along with a bunch of other cool stuff! If you’re working on a new game in Corona, this is a great way to get additional promotion (and a bit of motivation, of course).
Also, we are planning on featuring so…
Similar to the recent updates we made to the Google IAP plugin to help combat “App Not Responding” (ANR) reports in the Google Play console, we have released an updated Facebook v4a plugin to reduce the incidence of ANR errors. Here’s what you need to know…
Why a new updated plugin?The last revis…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Filter those hashesCurrently on Android, if you want to do numeric entry with a decimal place, you have to select the “phone” keyboard, but you may not want all of th…
Today, Apple sent out notices to iOS developers that, starting with the release of iOS 11 next month, only 64-bit apps will be supported. Several people are curious as to what this means for apps made with Corona.
The good newsCorona has been fully 64-bit since build 2015.2543 which was released …
When it comes to making a game, whether it be for mobile, desktop, or console, we know how important art is, but for many people (in particular those with a limited budget), audio tends to take a back seat and many developers turn to the Internet to hunt for free sounds.
Here are a few tips for ma…
If you haven’t peeked into the Corona Marketplace recently, it now offers dozens of plugins and assets, from art packs to audio tracks to useful utility plugins. Periodically, we will highlight a few exciting products which can help you develop your dream app using Corona.
Mailgun Sender
Our engineers have updated the Zip plugin to provide standard Zip 2.0 password protection. Simply include the password as a key-value pair in your options table for zip.compress() or zip.uncompress(). When compressing, the zip file will be encrypted with that password, and existing password-encryp…
BotHeads is somewhat an unrelated follow-up to Hanger World from A Small Game, an independent game studio in Stockholm, Sweden. Imagined by Richard Åström and Christian Östman, BotHeads was designed to be a simpler, easier-to-play game than its older sibling while still capitalizing on the experie…
Today we present several articles on game design topics which can help you build better, more compelling games!
Make your game difficult but not punishingIn this article, Ricardo Valério from medium.com discusses various factors in what makes a game challenging yet not punishing. The article star…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Look up in the sky…It’s Coronium SkyTable! We welcome awesome community contributor Develephant back to the forums and he comes back with a bang, releasing not one bu…
Dragons, fireballs, pit-traps — Drag n Zip has all of this and more!
Drag n Zip is a new Corona-built game from Cluck Eye Tea. The game is about a thief named Zip on a quest to conquer the five kingdoms. Along the way, you collect coins, gems, potions, and more while dodging those dragons, firebal…
Vungle, a Corona Labs video ad partner, has released a new plugin which integrates version 5.1 of their SDK. This updated plugin also brings some new features that you may find desirable, including:
- Vungle now supports multiple ad placements. Instead of a single video asset type, you can now use m…
Just what is #CoronaDefoldJam? GamesJam.org is hosting a game jam to promote Lua as a great language for game development and game jams. For this jam, developers can use either Corona or Defold for their projects.
Details- #CoronaDefoldJam starts on July 28, 2017, coinciding with the Ludum Dare 39 …
If you haven’t peeked into the Corona Marketplace recently, it now offers dozens of plugins and assets, from art packs to audio tracks to useful utility plugins. Periodically, we will highlight a few exciting products which can help you develop your dream app using Corona.
Fabric + Crashlytics
Corona Labs’ engineering team has made an important update to the Google In-App Purchase plugin that you need to be aware of.
Starting with Corona daily build 2017.3105, the store.init() call for Google IAP is now asynchronous. This means that it will return immediately while it continues to initi…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Tracking velocityGames usually include objects that move. Knowing when they hit something is a common event to track, but another thing you might want to react to is …
For the past three months, Corona Labs has worked to make Corona a more friendly platform for creating first-class games and applications. This includes:
Corona Labs offers over twenty monetization plugins that we strive to keep maintained and up-to-date. Usually these updates are transparent and we notify you via posts to the Monetization subforum. Occasionally, however, there are breaking changes that we need to make you aware of.
Specifically, t…
You can make stunning games with Corona, but you can also make amazing non-game apps. We would like to introduce you to Starting With Soil from Supertapp Interactive. In partnership between Whole Kids Foundation and the Center For Ecoliteracy, Supertapp worked with Monstro, a video and animation s…
If you haven’t peeked into the Corona Marketplace recently, it now offers dozens of plugins and assets, from art packs to audio tracks to useful utility plugins. Periodically, we will highlight a few exciting products which can help you develop your dream app using Corona.
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With the new unified Corona (Corona + Corona Native), some developers have asked how to include plugins in Corona Native projects. The process outlined here is for iOS only, but we plan to post similar instructions for Android Studio soon.
IMPORTANT: The process outlined herein requires daily buil…
It seems like Corona developers are creating more and more fantastic apps! Neon Poly by Lobster Claw Software leverages familiar gameplay from classic games like Tetris™ and 1010 to create a new twist on the “place pieces” puzzle game genre.
Neon Poly offers three types of pieces: squares, hexagon…
