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Free Friday: Corona Game Jam — Win a Free Corona License

Posted on April 22nd, 2011 IndieGamePod 19 comments

Hey folks,

For those of you into Corona and its ability to rapidly create mobile games…we’re going to have Corona game jam this weekend and will give away a free PRO subscription to Corona to the winner as well as an indie subscriptions to the 2nd and 3rd place winners.

Here are the details. You have this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday to make a game in Corona. You must submit by 8 pm on Sunday, PST. Games are submitted and the winner will be chosen by Monday at 8 PM.

The goal is to make a fun mobile game. We’ll also be releasing some free code during the weekend to help you reach that goal 🙂

In any case, you can download the Corona SDK here…
http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/

Enjoy 🙂

IPhone Game Development, iphone game development, Mobile Game Development Ansca Mobile, Corona SDK
19 responses to “Free Friday: Corona Game Jam — Win a Free Corona License”
- JeremiahNunn April 22nd, 2011 at 21:24
  
  What are the rules for submission? Who/where do we submit to? Also, where do we get the free code?
- IndieGamePod April 22nd, 2011 at 22:58
  
  The rules are…make an app/game that people can use on their mobile/tablet devices. You need to use Corona to develop the app.
  
  You can submit in the comments below 🙂 As for the free code, I’m working on it…I’ll have some stuff on Saturday…but it’ll be more complementary stuff rather than core gameplay code.
  
  Here are some quick game tutorials for Corona…
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEMGcy-mizM
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idrug4vHSgg&feature=related
- JeremiahNunn April 22nd, 2011 at 23:02
  
  When you say “in the comments”, are you meaning to upload files to the comments? Or do we post our entries somewhere on the web, and link to them in the comments?
  
  Also, are you wanting the corona project files? Or a binary (or whatever Corona produces)?
  
  (Sorry if I’m being obtuse).
- IndieGamePod April 23rd, 2011 at 01:03
  
  Hi,
  
  Clarification is good 🙂
  
  We only need the binary files.
  
  You can post a link to the .apk in the comments…no upload necessary 🙂
  
  If you feel that’s too much, you can e-mail support with a private link to the .apk 🙂
- J. A. Whye April 23rd, 2011 at 04:59
  
  Cool! I wish I had known from the minute this contest started, but what the heck, pressure is good for focusing, right? 🙂
  
  Now, after several hours, I’m kind of wishing I hadn’t started something that requires so much “R&D” on my part, but at least by the time this weekend is over I should be a much better Corona SDK developer!
  
  Jay
- jeff April 23rd, 2011 at 14:33
  
  just found this guess ill try to pull a all nighter and see what happens
  does it have to be android, iphone, either, or both
- jeff April 23rd, 2011 at 14:43
  
  also does it have to be all original or can we use premade graphics and sounds
- IndieGamePod April 23rd, 2011 at 18:45
  
  It can be for iPhone or Android…but the final version sent for testing should be an Android build.
  
  You can use premade graphics/sounds/code…the Corona community has some nice libraries to speed up coding…like the Director class, Sprite class, etc.
  
  http://developer.anscamobile.com/code/
  
  As long as the game is fun regardless of artwork/sound/code borrowed, it’s an acceptable submission 🙂
- JeremiahNunn April 24th, 2011 at 22:00
  
  Oops! Just realized (when I went to build) that I needed the JDK, downloading now. My submission will be at: http://nerdnightgames.com/stuffjumper.apk
- Eduardo Lopez April 24th, 2011 at 22:06
  
  I didn’t have time to finish it completely, but here it is:
  
  http://www.mediafire.com/?8tlnulmxxeqa5js
  
  I’m still on the trial version, so I don’t know if that will be a problem.
- IndieGamePod April 24th, 2011 at 22:09
  
  Cool,
  
  I’m going to check it out later tonight.
  
  Also, let me know if you had to do anything else aside from the JDK download to generate a .apk on your computer.
  
  It’ll help other developers that also want to generate their mobile apps in Corona 🙂
- JeremiahNunn April 24th, 2011 at 22:43
  
  All I needed was the 32 bit JDK to build. It did, however, give a message saying only I would be able to run it, due to my version of Corona being a trial and it was using a debug keystore. Not sure if everyone using the trial has the same keystore or not.
- J. A. Whye April 25th, 2011 at 01:58
  
  Argh! I apparently didn’t read the fine print and had it in my head that midnight was the deadline. Oh well, I’ve been in a mad scramble and probably wouldn’t have made it even if I had known. 🙂
  
  On the plus side, I have a good head start on a game that’s gonna make me rich once I release it. 😉
  
  Jay
- IndieGamePod April 26th, 2011 at 17:14
  
  To the folks that submitted to the contest, make sure you get me the e-mail account associated with your Corona account so you can be credited. I need that by 8 pm PST, Tuesday night 🙂
- JeremiahNunn April 26th, 2011 at 19:12
  
  Working on making a video, meanwhile, try the newer build attempt.
  
  http://nerdnightgames.com/StuffJumper.apk
- Fu May 1st, 2011 at 08:01
  
  Here is mine. Working on the video too.
  
  http://www.fu-design.com/alpacadown/AlpacaDown.apk
- Fu May 1st, 2011 at 08:12
  
  Here is the video. : )
  Do I need to send anything else?
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmBmDXw0nHM
- IndieGamePod May 1st, 2011 at 18:48
  
  Fu,
  
  The game jam was last week…the winner was already decided last Tuesday…be on the lookout these next Fridays…there may be some more good free stuff 🙂
- Fu May 2nd, 2011 at 07:51
  
  Oops! Thank you for noticing me that!!
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