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Announcements, stories and industry interest posts for users of Corona, the 2D game engine from Corona Labs.

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CoronaRob
June 30, 2017
From the Forum – Issue #159

Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.

Removing words

Many apps need to work with data and sometimes developers need to get values from the middle of a string. In this post, learn how to use the Lua string …

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CoronaRob
June 29, 2017
The Business of Apps: June 2017

Making games and apps can be fun, but what’s more fun is when other people play your games or use your apps. In many cases, you build it, publish it to the various app stores, and then watch those installs… not pile up. Equally important as your artwork, your clever design, or your awesome coding,…

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CoronaRob
June 27, 2017
Featured Game: Cowboy Gold Round-Up Platformer

Cowboy Gold Round-Up Platformer was released recently by Corona developer Mike Hempfling of Crave Creative.  In this game, you must navigate through the levels, collect gold, and kill or avoid various monsters and traps.

What’s noteworthy is that the game was built using the free Sticker Knight P…

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CoronaRob
June 23, 2017
Corona Marketplace – Recent featured products

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.

Firebase Auth

Need anoth…

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CoronaRob
June 21, 2017
Welcome to the new Corona!

We have some very big news — Corona is completely free!

Starting today, when you download Corona from our daily builds page, you will get a combined package that includes the standard Simulator-based product and the native-based product (formerly Corona Enterprise). And naturally, the next public …

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CoronaRob
June 17, 2017
From the Forum – Issue #158

Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.

Drawing lines

In this forum post, the original poster (OP) wanted to draw finger-paint style but found that the lines were not “connecting” properly. While forum super…

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CoronaRob
June 14, 2017
Great game design tips: June 2017

Today we present to you several articles on a range of game design topics which can help you build better, more compelling games!

11 Tips for Making a Fun Platformer

In this post, the author covers topics like handling collision boundaries, managing jumps over gaps, and more. The article also disc…

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CoronaRob
June 09, 2017
Corona Marketplace – Recent featured products

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.

Grunge UI Vectors Kit

T…

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