Does Corona SDK support Amazon GameCircle?

Solar2D Android
#221

Well, I never said Google is “evil”.  And I hope I am wrong, and Google really strives to help and promote indie developers.  But while you used your solitary example as proof of their commitment to indies I know of many examples of games with great art and gameplay ignored and buried.  I don’t pin that all on Google since there are 100s of apps launching each day and many gems are bound to be lost in that frenzy.  I think luck and timing plays a much bigger role than you allude.  So congratulations to you for successfully beating the odds!  I will now download your game so I can see for myself :wink:

Personally, I’ve had mixed success with Amazon apps. But with their current Amazon Coins promotion, Amazon ads promotion, Developer Select program, practically giving away their fire TVs and Fire Phones, and having a huge installed base of customers who are pre-conditioned to actually spend it seems like a platform that is indeed indie-developer friendly and shouldn’t be ignored.  This thread of concerned developers is testament to that. 

Looking forward to good news from David!

#222

Hi everyone - it actually looks like we are very close on the plugin, although there is still some testing going on.

If anyone here *REALLY* wants access ASAP, I may be able to give you access. But bear in mind that there still may be some issues with it and you would essentially be helping us to test. I’d prefer to keep this to only a small handful of people for now.

So if you want to do so, shoot me an email: david AT coronalabs.com

#223

Ha, volunteers, one step forward!

I’m on a business trip till Friday, but I can implement and test GameCircle at the weekend.
But maybe all the contributors here will beat me to it. :smiley:

David, I just sent you an email.

Best from Germany, home of the GameCircle soon,
Andreas

#224

Hey everyone - 2 developers have now successfully implemented GameCircle with the plugin. We are still waiting for the person who made the plugin to clean up a few things in the documentation. But it is definitely working well.

So if anyone here wants early access, just shoot me a quick email: david AT coronalabs.com

#225

Excellent!!  Very glad to hear - I’d love to get my hands on this ASAP, but I don’t have Enterprise, only Pro…  will have to wait until a daily build has it.  David - any idea how soon the plugin and docs will be integrated into the next daily build?   Thanks.

Nate

#226

Nate - you can use it now with Pro. Just shoot me the email.

#227

Will the GameCircle plugin only be available for Pro licenses?

thanks

Marco

#228

Marcotronic @ Yes, as per my understand it will only works for Pro and Enterprise licenses. Hoping soon it will be available for Basic license.

Does any one incorporate Amazon inapp purchase and Amazon Ads in the Enterprise licenses? Please update me. Thanks!

#229

THIS IS AWESOME, I cant wait to get my grubby hands on it for my next amazon app.

Larry

#230

Hi,

both versions of “Freeze!” are now live in the Amazon App Store featuring GameCircle Leaderboards & Achievements:

http://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Gun-Games-Freeze-FULL/dp/B00A1SL8SE  (FULL version)

http://www.amazon.com/Frozen-Gun-Games-Freeze/dp/B00A1SYM0K (IAP version)

I had problems to share the same Leaderboards & Achievements between these apps, but I think this is because of some bad profiles in the Amazon Developer Console (we developers cannot remove or change profiles, and the profiles are dated back to the year 2012).

But when I gave each app its own set of Leaderboards and Achievements it worked without a problem. And this was not much work, I just exported all the data from the one app and imported it for the other.

Both versions are now accepted for “Developer Select” and the marketing campaigns are scheduled for Nov. 1 to Dec. 1.

BTW, it is nice that I get the developer select impressions for two versions of the same game, doubling the exposure. :slight_smile:

Thanks to Coronalabs & David for making it happen,

best,

Andreas 

#231

That’s great to hear Andreas. Congratulations!

Everyone - just wanted to do two things:

  1. the plugin is being further updated to include Amazon’s friend functionality. That will hopefully be ready in the next day or so. At that point I believe we will “officially” release it.

  2. we now have a forum specifically for GameCircle here:
    http://forums.coronalabs.com/forum/644-amazon-gamecircle/

David

#232

Hey everyone - check out today’s blog post:

http://coronalabs.com/blog/2014/10/22/announcing-amazon-gamecircle-support/

#233

woohoo! Windows Phone and GameCircle in the same week…ya’ll are on a roll