Corona SDK for 4Square Hackathon

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Corona SDKThe RAD Tool for Building Location and

Social Mobile Apps

Rad BatnagNovember 21, 2012

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Corona SDK

Wut?Saturday, November 24, 12

Cross-platform framework

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For building games

Magic Defenders

Critter QuitterSaturday, November 24, 12

But also useful for other mobile apps

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Lua

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Basic Challenges in Building Location/Social Apps

GPS API

Compass API

Facebook, Twitter, 4Square API, etc.

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GPS

/Applications/CoronaSDK/SampleCode/Hardware/GPS

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Compass

/Applications/CoronaSDK/SampleCode/Hardware/Compass

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Twitter

/Applications/CoronaSDK/SampleCode/Networking/Twitter

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Facebook

/Applications/CoronaSDK/SampleCode/Networking/Facebook

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Something barebones?

Corona Game Templatehttp://github.com/radamanthus/corona-game-template

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Bonus Hackathon Tips

Start with a story

Make it an interesting story

Optimize UI

Make it pretty

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Corona SDK Users Group - Manila

http://www.facebook.com/groups/coronasdkphilippines/

NEXT MEETUP: November 28, 2012

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More Corona SDK resources

http://github.com/radamanthus/nakor

http://github.com/radamanthus/radlib

RadLib - Lua helper functions for Corona SDK

Nakor - Game skeleton generator

Corona Game Templatehttp://github.com/radamanthus/corona-game-template

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More Corona SDK resources

Planet Cute - free graphics for prototyping http://www.lostgarden.com/2007/05/dancs-miraculously-flexible-game.html

IGDA Manila chapterhttp://www.igda.org/manila

http://www.facebook.com/groups/igdamanila/

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