corona sdk for 4square hackathon
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Talk given to SMART 4Square Hackathon pre-meetup November 21, 2012TRANSCRIPT
Corona SDKThe RAD Tool for Building Location and
Social Mobile Apps
Rad BatnagNovember 21, 2012
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Radamanthus Batnaghttp://github.com/radamanthushttp://twitter.com/radamanthus
Corona Labs Ambassador
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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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/Applications/CoronaSDK/SampleCode/Networking/Twitter
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/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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