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

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 🙂

Co-Founder of Corona Talks About Rapid Mobile Development

Carlos, co-founder of Ansca Mobile, talks about the benefits of Corona and mobile game development…

You can download the podcast here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/corona-podcast.mp3

Or listen to it here…

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Float — The Story Behind 1 Million Installs on the iPhone

Brock, founder of Crawl Space Games, talks about developing iPhone games…including Float, the game that got over 1 million installs…

You can download the podcast here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/float-podcast.mp3

Or listen to it here…

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This Week is Corona Week on the Podcast Show ….

Hey folks,

As you may have noticed, there have been more mobile game dev interviews in the past few weeks and months. This is partially due to the interest by smaller game developers to make games/apps for their iPhone and Android devices.

As I’ve been interviewing indie mobile game developers, I’ve noticed that some indies are beginning to use the Corona SDK by Ansca Mobile

Of course, there was the 14 year old that used the Corona SDK to make the #1 free iPhone game…and the artist that used Corona to make his first iPhone game. This week, we’ll also have an interview with the developers of Float…the team that used Corona SDK to develop their game and get over 1 million installs.

Additionally, we’ll have an interview with the CEO of Corona about the future features on Corona.

Corona allows small developers to use the Lua programming language to make iPhone and Android games. Granted, the Android version still needs some additional features to make it feature complete, I’ve seen developers successfully deploy games to both iPhone and Android using Corona.

Enjoy and feel free to post questions/suggestions you have related to Corona 🙂

Podcast Show on Vacation This Week…

Hey folks,

The podcast show is on vacation this week.

Next week, we’ll start airing the GDC interviews and have some other new and interesting events planned….cya then 🙂

Developing an Indie Zombie Shooter, Part 2

The founder of Secret Base studio talks about developing an indie zombie shooter…

You can download the podcast here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/secretbase-part-2.mp3

Or listen to it here…

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Developing an Indie Zombie Shooter, Part 1

The founder of Secret Base studio talks about developing an indie zombie shooter…

You can download the podcast here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/secretbase-part-1.mp3

Or listen to it here…

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Hey folks,

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Free Friday: Royalty-Free Music For Your Game

GianMarco Leone has been nice enough to create free music that game developers can use in their game…enjoy 🙂

You can download the podcast here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/prelude.mp3

Or listen to it here…

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The Challenges of an Indie Shoot Em Up Studio, Part II

Matthew from Xona Games talks about their journey as an Indie Shoot ‘Em Up Studio

You can download the podcast here…
http://www.indiegamepod.com/podcasts/xona-games-part-2.mp3

Or listen to it here…

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