Corona SDK Mobile Game Development Beginners Guide

Corona SDK Mobile Game Development Beginners Guide - Second Edition, 9781783559343 (1783559349), Packt Publishing, 2015

Learn, explore, and create commercially successful mobile games for iOS and Android

About This Book

From game physics to successful marketing, learn the fundamentals of Corona SDK for game development
Integrate your games with social networks such as Twitter and Facebook
This is a pragmatic guide explained in a step-by-step manner to create and deploy games quickly and efficiently

Who This Book Is For

This book is for anyone who wants to have a go at creating commercially successfully games for Android and iOS. You don't need game development or programming experience.

What You Will Learn

Learn how to script in Lua and get a better understanding of command flow, functions, and objects
Load images and add a background image to your games
Apply more functionality to your game using more APIs
Use sprite sheets and create more complex game logic for the game
Track your data and save the scores of your games
Make your game socially aware by sharing messages and scores on Facebook and Twitter

In Detail

Corona is a software development kit to build mobile applications for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.

This book will take you through the journey of developing games right from installing Corona SDK and creating Hello World as your first app. Going further, you will learn how to script in Lua and learn some techniques to apply this in Corona SDK with demonstration. Towards the end of the book you'll build the final game, which involves physical objects and also uses features such as the accelerometer. Moreover, learn to make your game socially available on Twitter and Facebook.

By the end of the book, you'll learn to deploy your iOS and Android games to the App Store and Google Play Store.

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