Create Mobile Games with Corona: Build with Lua on iOS and Android

✍ Scribed by Silvia Domenech

• Publisher: The Pragmatic Programmers
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 258
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Develop cross-platform mobile games with Corona using the Lua programming language! Corona is experiencing explosive growth among mobile game developers, and this book gets you up to speed on how to use this versatile platform. You'll use the Corona SDK to simplify game programming and take a fun, no-nonsense approach to write and add must-have gameplay features. You'll find out how to create all the gaming necessities: menus, sprites, movement, perspective and sound effects, levels, loading and saving, and game physics. Along the way, you'll learn about Corona's API functions and build three common kinds of mobile games from scratch that can run on the iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, Nook Color, and all other Android smartphones and tablets.