Corona SDK for 4Square Hackathon

Corona SDKThe RAD Tool for Building Location and

Social Mobile Apps

Rad BatnagNovember 21, 2012

Saturday, November 24, 12

Radamanthus Batnaghttp://github.com/radamanthushttp://twitter.com/radamanthus

Corona Labs Ambassador


http://github.com/radamanthus

http://github.com/radamanthus

http://twitter.com/radamanthus






Corona SDK

Wut?Saturday, November 24, 12

Cross-platform framework


For building games

Magic Defenders

Critter QuitterSaturday, November 24, 12

But also useful for other mobile apps


Lua


Basic Challenges in Building Location/Social Apps

GPS API

Compass API

Facebook, Twitter, 4Square API, etc.


GPS

/Applications/CoronaSDK/SampleCode/Hardware/GPS


Compass

/Applications/CoronaSDK/SampleCode/Hardware/Compass


Twitter

/Applications/CoronaSDK/SampleCode/Networking/Twitter


Facebook

/Applications/CoronaSDK/SampleCode/Networking/Facebook


Something barebones?

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


https://github.com/radamanthus/corona-game-template


http://github.com/radamanthus/nakor


Bonus Hackathon Tips

Start with a story

Make it an interesting story

Optimize UI

Make it pretty


Corona SDK Users Group - Manila

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

NEXT MEETUP: November 28, 2012






More Corona SDK resources


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










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/


http://www.lostgarden.com/2007/05/dancs-miraculously-flexible-game.html

http://www.lostgarden.com/2007/05/dancs-miraculously-flexible-game.html





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