Mixed thoughts came to mind when I read the post, but I am going to be optimistic and support Corona as we transition into the next phase for our beloved engine 
. Love the helpful posts by Rob and others in the community so really hope everyone stays on
That metal support is really needed so keep at it Vlad (also the github sponsor things says that my contributions won’t be matched at this time, maybe some criteria needs to be met still for it)
You guys! Thanks so much for kind words and support. I am glad we are now on kinda same page about Corona, and its future.
Your support is overwhelming and is a great motivation for me. To be honest I wasn’t sure if this model would work until I posted my reply yesterday, now I have full confidence that with your help Corona has bright future.
To be even more honest, now I am more confident in future of Corona than this day year ago, and I pledge to work hard so Corona would stay best game engine as we all see it.
Thank you very much. Your responses are amazing motivators for me and Rob.
There are technical challenges, but not something we can’t do or unachievable. I think we are on track with transition to offline and independent infrastructure.
Have you guys thought of changing the engine’s name now that everything is about to change and the new licenses would allow for it?
Corona seems to have historic baggage, plus a beer company and a virus to compete with. If you guys ever wanted a new name, now is the time!
Thank you for the GitHub Sponsor link Vlad, I’ve added myself as a contributor just to express my interest and support. I’ll gladly increase my donation as we get closer to understanding the future plan.
To you and Rob, and everyone else who worked on Corona SDK but perhaps aren’t as publicly known: thank you, it was and still is a great product.
How do they get the stats ? I believe Cocos should be somewhere on top of the list, but don’t see it.
I have been using Corona for the past 8+ years to build business apps for many clients. Other cross platforms are not so well documented, or doesn’t have features needed for business apps. I have re-checked out others, and their features do not come close to Corona.
I have signed up in github as a sponser.
I am able to help out in AWS S3 and EC2 as i have a bit of experience in them.
I lived with the language “Lua” with the “autoplay studio” application.
And I liked it more with the “Corona” platform.
I’m sure many like me love the Corona platform.
Because of this, the Corona platform will remain forever.
I think Corona will see tremendous development thanks to the shareholders.
Sorry, I’m not a good English speaker.
Iirc it’s a mix of automatic detection and manual engine/tool metadata tagging (for tools they couldn’t find a way to distinguish), not entirely sure about the former though. Tools that aren’t already added also have to be submitted manually, so aside from Cocos devs not favoring itch.io enough it could also be a matter of not being detected automatically + users not knowing about manual metadata addition or no one bothering to add Cocos to the classification in the first place. I’m quite sure that Corona actually has more projects on itch too with their owners simply not knowing about the option of adding said tag several sub-menus deep into the dashboard.
Thanks for the clarifications, Vlad and Rob!.
I have more than 50 Corona games generating significant incomes, so I’ll be glad to contribute monthly.
Long live to CORONA!
hey Vlad and Rob, thanks for your effort and clarifications! I am still working on great games with corona. glad that i will be able to continue!
Yes, all this is well. I’m more concerned about the how long this will be maintained/updated.
And what about plugins? I currently use (and pay for) 2-3 plugins. What happens with them now? Are they free? Will they stop working?
Vlad seems happy and committed to Corona, but if your business is relying on Corona then you are essentially relying on one man. He seems a decent, honourable chap but in life anything can happen that’s out of anyone’s control.
For non-reoccuring plugins, we are going to set up a system where they can be downloaded from our servers (likely GitHub going forward) and **stored** locally. That is instead of downloading it every time after we check to see if you have a license for it, we will download it once Corona will use your local copy for future builds. I’m assuming we will check dates and make sure you have the latest.
Several community members are thinking out something and Vlad has some ideas. One option is to let anyone include plugins from a URL, so a Plugin developer could host their own and update their own.
Reoccurring plugins are more of a problem and that’s a detail we are still working out.
Rob
That’s true … BUT … be honest, looking back, wasn’t this the case since probably almost 2 years already and most just ignored this fact more or less consciously?
In addition, since before the new situation was communicated we even accepted the additional risk that Corona might fade away with no change of the license.
So, realistically I’d say the risks are no worse than in the recent past, you can just see them more easily.
Vlad is clearly a competent developer and passionate about Corona. It seems he’s been trundling along on his own for some time now, and now that there’s openness about this he’s gained support and respect for what he’s doing, where until now there’s frankly been a lot of “why hasn’t this been done yet?” posts.
As long as Vlad can stick around and the community has his back, I think Corona has a better future now than it did last month. And presumably over time as support increases, he’d be building up a team again.
In 2020 this is just how businesses should be. Gone are the days of hiding behind a corporate identity, pretending to have more money and staff than you do, and secretly just outsourcing everything.
We’ve been relying on one man for some time now, albeit backed by Appodeal. Now it’s just official and we know to be supportive.
Extremely valid points from Michael Flad and richard11.
Right now, Vlad wants a full time job and the community someone to support the product.
It’s a win win situation and even better days may come.
Always, whatever we do in our live, no matter how big or small a company is, something can go wrong.
So?
Better spending our time thinking of a new name for Corona than trying to predict a gloomy future :p.
What about PHOENIX SDK? I know it is cheesy… but it fits exactly!
All fair points for hobbyists, like most of us are I would guess. No serious business is going to touch Corona while one man holds its fate in his hands though. I wonder what SGS’ take is?
Having said that there are multinational companies using my employers’ software, and only he knows how the current revision is built (in VB.net!). And only I know how the forthcoming ‘next-gen’ version works 
I agree Corona definitely needs a new name though, it’s always been a millstone round its neck.
A nice name but looks like a lot of other engines agreed 
A change of name wouldn’t be a good idea from a marketing perspective. All of the material currently out there discussing Corona and helping with Corona development issues. The Corona tutorials and Corona videos. The #madewithcorona hashtag on social media, etc. There’s a lot pointing here under that label.
Not my call though.
I wrote about the name change in a light mood.
But, if there is a name change, remember that Corona is beer, renderer, now a virus and many other things.
The same mistake shouldn’t happen again.
VladAndRob SDK would be better :p.
Btw Dark Phoenix was one of the biggest superhero flops ever :).