When I first started messing with Corona SDK, I started with plans to do a Balloon game based on Whack-a-mole type game. I gave it a few interesting twists then got hung up on artwork.
But it seems to me in reading the forums and helping others that everyone is trying to do a balloon game to start.
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I think that the 8 Minute Game video on YouTube about Corona probably helped; then the fact that Float has been so popular - and people like balloons!
Just don’t try to make a bubble wrap app - at least not using the word “bubble wrap”.
Peach 
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Hahahaha, I’m learning Corona by making balloon game and I guess “8 minute game” video had the biggest influence on me.
Actually I hadn’t plans of making game with balloons, I started with a simple shooter, but I realized it’s yet too complicated for me. So now I’m learning coding by making balloon game at first 
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