Corona Labs is pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new, updated Google Play Games Services plugin. This plugin in a complete rewrite of the version one of the plugin using the latest GPGS core libraries and dependencies.
One of the key reasons for the GPGS v2 plugin, besides stayin…
First, we would like to take this opportunity to let you know about a new tutorial on implementing advertising in your Corona apps. The tutorial covers code and common code to implement an ad plugin in your app. You can view it here!
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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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Corona Labs is pleased to announce early beta testing for Linux builds. With this feature you can use the Corona Simulator either on Windows or macOS to produce a Corona build that should run on Debian and generic x86-64 Linux platforms.
This feature is currently in a limited beta test. You will n…
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.
Lama ChefThis is a new…
One of the struggles with building simple “casual” free-to-play (F2P) games is how to keep the player engaged and playing for the long term. Having a lot of initial downloads is great, but you need the app users to keep playing your game so they engage with your advertising and take advantage of y…
One of the challenges in building successful games comes down to one simple, but hard to answer question: Is it fun? We all need to know that answer. Compounding the problem is the fact that what you might find as fun, someone else may not enjoy.
In this blog post by Joost van Dongen, a lead progr…
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.
AppsFlyerAppsFlyer is …
We all want to make successful apps, but how do we get there? There are many different ideas of how to reach success and many different ways to get there, but it’s a challenging path. Think about Fortnite’s “Battle Royale” format. You start with 100 players and at the end only one person has climb…
Some game designs make it obvious as to how you should play. Some games are so complex the entire game may feel like it needs a constant guide to play. But in most guides a simpler tutorial is usually called for.
The staff at Game Career Guide has produced a handy tutorial guiding you through some…
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.
High Climb 2018 – Cool …
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Every app and game developer needs an online presence if they expect to have success. Aside from a website, social media is a huge area for helping market your app. Getting started is simple enough, c…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Going Indie?Many Corona developers start out as solo developers. Some may start as artists, others as programmers and some with skills in both. But when is it time to…
Content scaling can be a mystery even for some seasoned developers. Let’s try to demystify it.
First, forget pixels. You are going to create a virtual content area that is measured in values that make sense for you to use. Your content area could be 1 x 1 if you want. Of course to position somethi…
Everyone loves 5-star ratings for their apps and games and hates getting 1-star ratings. Bad ratings and reviews are a death sentence for a new game. One way to help prevent these bad ratings is to thoroughly test your app. Many new developers are in such a rush to get published, they don’t spend …
Corona is of course popular for making 2D games. But it takes more than a great engine and a great idea to be successful. There is a lot that’s needed to bring that great idea to a complete product that will be well received by your audience.
In this blog post on Gamasutra, R…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Life BarsMany games allow the main hero (or the enemy spawn) to take incremental damage and as a game developer you need to communicate the current health of the char…
Corona Labs is pleased to announce the availability of our latest public release of Corona: 2018.3326. This build contains significant bug fixes and new features that we hope you will appreciate.
Google PlayOne of the biggest changes in this public build is addressing changes required by Google. …
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Need really big numbers?Lua supports numbers up to 2^53 in value. That’s 9,007,199,254,740,990 or 9 Quadrillion. While this may be plenty for most apps, it creates a …
Corona can be used to make many different kinds of apps, but undoubtedly it’s a great tool for games. There of course are many different types of games too. We would like to introduce you to OverRapid, a musical puzzle game.
OverRapid, created by Byeong-Su Kang of Team ArcStar, is a mobile rhythm…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Custom TimersSeveral Corona developers are starting deep discussion topics that you may find interesting. This topic dives into taking an OOP (Object Oriented Program…
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the finalists of this year’s Young Game Designer competition: http://ygd.bafta.org/winners-nominees/2018
Three students taught by Corona developer Ian Masters entered their Corona-made apps and all three were selected as Top-10 …
Corona Labs has updated the 2018 roadmap for Corona. You can view it here!
We have added a section to include completed items and those that are currently in an open beta test which should be complete soon. We’ve juggled a few items around and also marked items as started that a…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Custom runtime eventsForum super-star @roaminggamer has been bringing up some great topics of discussion in the forums lately. This topic covers a cool item called cu…
Tomorrow, May 25th, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becomes legally enforceable. Basically, for app users in the EU, you have to allow them to choose if you can collect private data on them.
While you might not personally be collecting information, the services you a…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Do you use a game module?Corona community developer extraordinaire @roaminggamer, posed an interesting but simple question in the forums: “Do you use a game module?” …
Great news Corona developers! Starting with daily build 2018.3286, metrics collected by Corona-made apps are now GDPR safe. We no longer collect any ID’s or data points that would be considered personal data under these data regulations.
We will be updating our privacy policy to reflect these chan…
Today, Corona Labs is pleased to announce that our new Marketplace is online and ready for use. Since opening our original Marketplace in 2016, hundreds of plugins and assets have been submitted to the store and is powering many Corona made apps.
In addition to an all new look, the new marketplace…
Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Console log themesIf you’re a Mac user, you can create custom themes for the Corona Console Log window. This is a somewhat hidden feature, but Corona developer @LeoAp…
GDPR – or General Data Protection Regulation is a requirement from the European Union to assure that user’s data is able to be managed by users. This requirement becomes legally enforceable on May 25th, 2018. There are many questions about what data Corona collects and how that data can be managed…
