How are your projects going? Now is a good time to update your itch.io page (or create one if you haven’t) and share some screen shots, play video, runnable prototype, etc.
We are not looking for finished projects but we want to see your progress. Submissions may get a shoutout on social media and if you’ve got a cool concept, we may feature you on the blog! So let’s get those pages updated!
If you have not joined or started your #CoronaDefoldGame jam project yet, there is still time to get started.
A work in progress. But more or less the framework is working and I got two levels to play around, so far so good! I will be uploading a play video on my itch.io page soon, so long as the build times will be good to me.
I am still having that crazy looong build times… sometimes timed out. I only get a successful build in about 1 out of 4 tries, and that is anywhere between 5-12 minutes!!
I have done all your suggestions and still getting this problem. It’s very intermittent. Sometimes I get a successful build (4-5min) though it’s very rare.
Anyway, to answer your question, I am not using any plugins, I live in Philippines, and I am using Corona 3068 on a Win 7 Ultimate.
Thanks Rob. Yes i have setup my itch.io page, but it’s currently in Draft mode. I didn’t feel setting up to “Published” until something can be downloaded, what do you think? Can you (and others) see it while it’s in Draft mode?
We cannot see the page. If you could make a game play video available, that would be enough to let you publish it. One of the cool features of itch.io is that it supports the idea of developer blogs and showing progress. You can even publish early versions of your game.
I’m working on a game for the jam, hopefully I can show you something at the end of this week.
Currently I’m working alone on this project, and I don’t really have marketing knowledge, so I thought a publisher would be a great help. Whatever the outcome of the jam will be, I would try to publish my game. Finally the question: is it possible to have a publisher before or after the jam ends?
I am working alone on my projects too, typically on my spare time. I don’t have any experience about getting help from publishers or the procedures involved. When I launched my first-ever game last year, I only launched a small Facebook ad campaign, running for about two weeks where it got most of the installs for an affordable cost.
If you happen to get more information about publishers I would love to know too :)
I’m excited to see your jam game development progress!
Having to have an internet connection to build is becoming increasingly inconvenient and outdated. It somewhat made sense when Corona was $450 a year and it was to prevent people hacking it to get a free ride, and you didn’t have far more powerful engines like Unity3D available for free and with offline builds.
When I entered the Kenney Jam, there was a questionnaire that asked which engine you were planning to use - Corona must have been 50th in the list, somewhere between QBasic and C64 Assembler. It just wasn’t in the conversation and things like this aren’t helping!
I love Corona for what it is. Yes, there are always limitations and there are many great and powerful tools out there (I for one is eyeing at learning C# and Unity3D) but for the type of 2D Projects I make I am very much at home with Corona.
The only issue I’m having now (recently) is the failed builds with error #5 which I think must have something to do with poor connectivity from where I am. Yes, it would be very cool if we can make builds offline.
@Santi I’ll let you know if I’ll have some experience contacting publishers :) I like your development log!
Have you tried LiveBuild? It’s a great feature, so that you don’t have to build every time you change something.
@nick_sherman Personally I don’t have problems with Corona. The build is fast (I live in Hungary, so maybe I build when nobody else does), and most of the time I don’t even have to build again thanks to LiveBuild.
I tried Game Maker, Unity, Cocos 2dx, Defold before, and for my current game, Corona proved to be the best engine for me. Maybe other engines have better marketing and more tutorials.
I agree that Corona is a great engine, although I personally find despite five years experience with Corona and just six months with Unity, I can actually iterate a lot faster in the latter already.
The marketing is where they have failed, hence why they were so far down the list in the Kenney jam, below the likes of Love2D. Type in ‘lua game development’ into google and Corona doesn’t feature until page 2. Even worse, ‘2D game engine’ ranks on page 3. Defold has been out for 5 minutes and has a number 1 ranking.
They don’t really seem to be taking any steps to address this, I mean these forums are hardly alive with activity - it’s the same three or four posters responding to most questions.
I agree LiveBuild is a great feature but has stopped working for me, my project is 150MB+ and it just doesn’t seem to like that.
