Welcome to #GlitchJam!
What is #GlitchJam? It’s a game jam, hosted by long time Corona developers Glitch Games. Early in their past, Glitch games ran their first #GlitchJam’s after some time off and with modern game jam management tools, they are ready to resume this awesome Corona based game jam.…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
HTML5 server awesomenessCorona mega-developer @develephant has gone full overdrive creating some great tools to go along with HTML5 builds. In his latest creation, he…
Our HTML5 team has been quite busy and HTML5 builds are progressing nicely. There is a recent change that we hope you will find exciting. We’ve found a way to get HTML5 builds down to around 1 megabyte. Of course the more art and audio assets you add, the more your app will grow in size.
We’ve acc…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Spamming buttonsSometimes repeated button presses are okay, but frequently they’re not. How do you defend against them? In this thread, our developer community chimed…
HTML5 opens up some great opportunities for developers and one of those is plugin development using JavaScript.
While most Corona developers will only use Lua in a cross-platform manner like they are currently using, it’s super easy to add JavaScript features to extend your app.
You need two thing…
Good news! Today Corona is pleased to announce that HTML5 builds are in “Open Beta”. That means starting with daily build 2018.3238, you can now have Corona output a folder with the various HTML files and content necessary to run your Corona game or app in a web browser.
Simply upload the entire f…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Physics and groupsGroups are a wonderful way to organize your display objects but sometimes this can create issues for developers using physics. @roaminggamer and @ho…
We have made a change to our feedback site where feature requests are made.
Before, you had 15 votes that you could spread among the items you felt were the most important to you. Now, vote limits are gone. When you click the “Vote” button, you will cast a single vote for the feature request. Clic…
Some of our Microsoft Windows customers who run a couple of virus/malware checking software have noticed that our installer was testing positive for a Other:Malware-gen [Trj] alert. Avast and AVG were flagging this. ESET and Fortinet reported a PUP or “potentially unwanted program” for a web-bar t…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Glitches in PhysicsThe original poster wanted to move an object around another like a moon orbiting a planet but the pivot joints were creating glitches in movement. …
After a lot of hard work, Corona is happy to announce the release of the StartApp plugin!
Now, app publishers who use the Corona framework to build their mobile applications will now be able
to easily integrate StartApp’s SDK to monetize their Corona apps.
StartApp is an insight-driven mobile tec…
There are some great resources available on the Internet for just about everything. Making computer games is no exception. Sometimes we come across a great resource that we think you might benefit from.
The site IT Hare offers up their Programming Guide For Video-Gamers. This guide contains links…
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.
Halloween Skeleton Game…
Beasts Battle 2 is the follow up to Beasts Battle from Greenolor Studio, primarily by Sergey Pomorin in Kaliningrad, Russia. Inspired by classics like Heroes of Might and Magic and the King’s Bounty series, Beasts Battle 2 is a turn-based strategy game that operates in one of two game modes: map m…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Building a Reversi-like gameBoard games like Reversi (or as it’s trademarked Othello) are a common target for computer games, but how do you go about making one? The …
In 2015, Kansas City developer Kevin Bradford and art director Luke Lisi put out a beautiful puzzle game The Guides. The Guides received high accolades from many including Apple’s “15 Most Mind-Bending Puzzlers” and CNET’s “Best Mobile Games of 2015“.
The team has followed this hit up with a seque…
Many users love the Appodeal plugin. Having access to many ad providers in one place, getting high fill rates from the best advertisers is an awesome thing. However; that comes at a price. The plugin is large… It has to include the SDKs for every provider in the plugin.
Today we are announcing a n…
Our engineering team would like to take this opportunity to share with the community our development goals for the year. Product roadmaps can be unpredictable. While items may be added, removed or postponed, the following roadmap should give you a general sense of what our plans are, with the unde…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
A Diagonal Slider?The original poster wanted to make a diagonal slider. Several community members came up with possible solutions, but @starcrunch came up with the ma…
There have been several requests for a standalone self-hosted plugin plan. Self-hosted plugins are a method for studios who are making their own native plugins to create plugins, yet still use the simulator for building their apps. Normally if you need to use a custom plugin, you would have to use…
Corona’s engineers have slipped a couple of really cool features into recent daily builds that may have not caught your attention.
Emitter Particles and GroupsPreviously, the particles emitted from an emitter became part of the stage until they expired. This would create problems with the relativ…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Deriving pointsMath is important! In this thread, the poster knows two points on a line but wants to calculate points along a circle for which that line is a radius. …
Elliot Pace at Epace Games LLC can put a feather in his cap. His game Zombie Guard has broken the one million download mark, a dream for almost every app developer. The game also earned the Google Play Editor’s Choice selection!
In Zombie Guard, you defend your city from an onslaught of zombies. …
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Multiple variables for stringsThe original poster was curious how to have multiple variables in a string. Our community developers came up with multiple solutions in …
Corona Labs would like to take a brief moment to wish everyone worldwide a Happy Holidays. We have had a great year and have added many new features to the Corona suite of tools:
- Make Corona Enterprise free by merging it with Corona SDK into one product (Corona)
- Made Corona Native available for Wi…
Corona Labs is pleased to announce the latest public release of Corona. This new build, 2017.3184 contains many bug fixes and important new features that move Corona forward.
Corona Native builds are now supported on WindowsStarting with this build, Windows developers can now use Android Studio t…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
JSON for a database?In this forum tread, the poster was curious about using JSON to hold database data. Our great community chimed in with several answers.
Timeout on…
PayPal is back. Marketplace vendors can once again request payouts via PayPal. Also for those purchasing the plugins that are part of the Corona Professional Bundle, including the Splash Screen Control plugin, you can request to pay via PayPal by emailing info@coronalabs.com.
Corona Labs’ engineers have completed the process of updating to the latest versions of the various support libraries that other Android plugins depend on . The updates include:
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- Google Play Services – 11.4.2
- Support libraries – 25.2.0
Plugin developers should be able to take advantage of these u…
