Baseball GM

General (non-technical) New Apps / Works in Progress
#1

In Baseball GM, you become the general manager of a franchise in a city of your choosing. As the general manager, you control the fate of your franchise. Make fair trades, sign valuable free agents, and draft high ceiling draft picks as you look to etch your name in league history. You will compete with 29 other CPU teams as you attempt to build a dynasty in this simulation game. Be careful though; injuries and other catastrophic incidents can derail even the best of plans, and get you fired.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.playaction.baseballgm

http://www.amazon.com/Play-Action-Games-Baseball-GM/dp/B00RVRZ2OO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1420726352&sr=8-3&keywords=baseball+gm

#2

I see you have a lot of text in your app. Have you had any difficulties working with the font/text capabilities in Corona?

#3

@Rick

The text manipulation/creation process in Corona SDK is really easy and comparatively enjoyable! In other apps where I didn’t use Corona, it was really difficult to get the text layout correctly. I’m personally not a fan of Eclipse’s drag and drop UI layout because it is buggy and lacks intuition.

What’s been especially helpful in Corona has been the ‘anchor points’ feature. By setting the anchorX and anchorY of a text to .5, you could easily position text at the center of the screen. Programming this in Java or C would be considerably messier.

#4

I see you have a lot of text in your app. Have you had any difficulties working with the font/text capabilities in Corona?

#5

@Rick

The text manipulation/creation process in Corona SDK is really easy and comparatively enjoyable! In other apps where I didn’t use Corona, it was really difficult to get the text layout correctly. I’m personally not a fan of Eclipse’s drag and drop UI layout because it is buggy and lacks intuition.

What’s been especially helpful in Corona has been the ‘anchor points’ feature. By setting the anchorX and anchorY of a text to .5, you could easily position text at the center of the screen. Programming this in Java or C would be considerably messier.