I recently read the news over at GameSalad, and I can say that I’m leaving. If there are any GS users here, my GS forum name is iDeveloper-Is-Leaving-GameSalad (previously just iDeveloper).
Hope to get enough money to buy Corona.
I hope Corona doesn’t go GS on us. [import]uid: 9959 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 302614[/import]
Dear Ansca…
Be prepared for a mass migration of devs to Corona from GameSalad. They just committed suicide today by converting to a revenue sharing model combined with big brother publishing control.
If you guys can get a GUI in place sooner than later…those devs will come by the 100s and you can put the final nail in the coffin. [import]uid: 9492 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7431[/import]
I agree. Corona should get working on that GUI NOW. [import]uid: 9959 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7447[/import]
A GUI is somewhat of questionable value and needs too much resources to be built. Besides this, most 2d games have dynamic level setups, so a GUI would be of no extended usage, since the developer must create/handle/remove the objects programmatically, according to user behavior and difficulty management.
Better documentation, current issues resolving and features enrichment is what I would propose. [import]uid: 7356 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7448[/import]
Hi !!
Welcome to Ansca Mobile, to the Corona forums, and the Corona community.
Ansca is a company founded by developers for developers and strives to stay true to our vision of being the best tool to make mobile apps for everyone who has an idea. Borrowing from our About page on our web portal, “We are a company that understands the fast-changing mobile marketplace so that you don’t have to — our founders and engineers have built world-class products at Adobe, Apple, and Pixar.”
My commitment and the commitment of each and everyone here at Ansca is for you, our developers, our community.
If you have any questions about Ansca, about our thoughts, or just want to introduce yourself, please feel free to contact me directly at cicaza @ anscamobile.com even if you have support questions, or general inquires about Corona, that’s my direct email address. I look forward to hearing from you.
Carlos.
ps: also known as the co-founder…
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Wow… I’m impressed!
An actual staff response? I’m not used to staff communicating this rapidly. The “staff” (or who ever they are) over there at GameSalad are more like teens.
My rant:
Someone posted this: (a member)
"Well, they can’t just blurt out a response. They have to all talk it over, talk to the money men, talk some more, have lunch, talk some more, decide what they are going to do, talk to the money men some more, then get the decision approved, written up, approved, talk some more, and then finally come to a decision.
Then the decision has to go through a 3 stage approval process where each part is approved, stamped, approved again, sent back for review, and finally, after everyone agrees that we in fact do not need to put hamburger mix into the gasoline engine, they go to sleep. A job well done."
Then one of the “staff” posts this:
“Something like this, only completely different. And without the sleep and the lunch.”
Rant:
OK… Wait… WHAT!? This is no time to be joking around! Members are pissed, and this is how you handle it!!! If you can’t handle something this small, then HOW are you gonna handle 1000’s of developers???
You can see the “staff” response here: http://gamesalad.com/forums/topic.php?id=11808
The post is in yellow. (aka “Yellow Post”)
Once again, thanks for replying, Carlos 
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Thank you Shane.
Cheers
me. [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7511[/import]
Hi,
I also wanted to extend a warm welcome to potential converts. I think you’ll find an active, engaged and supportive community here. I’m continually impressed by the passion that developers have for Corona, and the fun they have creating with it–not to mention the success they have bringing those creations to market. And that passion and fun shows not just in regular forum postings, but in donated UI frameworks and libraries, copious code samples, code editor extensions, export utilities, and more.
So have a look around, download a trial, and thanks for the interest!
Tim [import]uid: 6650 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7513[/import]
Hey iDA checking out options glad to see some familiar names here
Just getting started looking around here again looking for a good tutorial for beginner got a little novice programming knowledge
Looking for a bunch of small tutorials that show one small step at a time
Well anyway looking forward to seeing a lot more gs pol here [import]uid: 7911 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7514[/import]
Oops, was logged in as “regular” Tim not “Ansca Tim” for that last post. [import]uid: 8196 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7515[/import]
@jstrahan, I would start with “Corona in 5 minutes”:
http://developer.anscamobile.com/content/application-programming-guide-tutorial-introduction
-Tim
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Thanks my mind is running all over the place cause I’ve got 3games in the works in gs that I slowed down on two months ago just incase I didn’t like what gs was doing so I got my answer today and here I am so if u could and I think this would help a lot of gs users who come here is a start here then this, then this,… Just to help get our feet good and wet cause y’all gonna have some who are coming from a visual mindset of programming [import]uid: 7911 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7518[/import]
Are there any step by step guides for something like a breakout or pong game complete with score and levels and scenes think this would be very helpful so we could get a hands on experience of how to Structure the code for a real working game [import]uid: 7911 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7519[/import]
@jstrathan
Take a look at our code pages http://developer.anscamobile.com/code where developers submit code and our sample code pages at http://www.anscamobile.com/resources/samples/
If you think we need something additional, or have any suggestions, please post away or email us at support @ anscamobile.com
Carlos
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I almost forgot,
Join our twitter and facebook to keep abreast of what is the latest Ansca and Corona happenings.
http://www.twitter.com/ansca
http://www.facebook.com/ansca
and videos at
http://www.youtube.com/anscamobile
Carlos [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7521[/import]
Thanks Carlos also I need to have my trial reactivated if you could I’ll b dl cge later
I’m going to check out the code section in a minute but if you know of any tutorials like I mentioned above a link would b great
Not that I’m making a game like thoses but thought it would b a simple game tutorial to understand if it was commented
Again thanks
One thing that I would like but understand if u can’t or won’t would b a no time limit or longer time trial licenses [import]uid: 7911 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7524[/import]
I dnt undrstnd twitter spk.
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LOL
Hmm… Looks like after our redesign, we dropped the Samurai Kitchen sample and our pong sample. I will zip them up and send them to you.
Carlos [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7528[/import]
Thanks that would be great [import]uid: 7911 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7529[/import]
Hi everybody:
To tell you the truth, I was scare. After yesterday’s news I said well that was a hello and good bye for me since I just recently started this game making thing since june and as a hobby. You have to put a lot of time and effort to create a good game and lets face it the general idea is the dream of hitting the right spot to get rich, like hitting the jackpot. After the GS news I said, I cant do this any more. Because if I am going to leave half or more than half of my revenues between apple, GS and the government, it just not going to be worth it. Not worth the time. I have my own business and have a family so if I was going to sacrifice some of their time, creating apps it should be for a good reason. For me I think that reason ceased to exist in GS. I couldn’t sleep last night, I was really depressed. Today I see the Carlos post in Photic website, then I come over here and see the welcoming and some familiar faces and I have to admit that I can see a ray of light, hope…
I will definitely give this a try.
Thanks a lot Ansca staff for the welcome I really appreciate it. [import]uid: 9979 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7583[/import]
Expect A LOT more people in the coming days/weeks… This just might be a really great time to get involved with Corona.
// red. [import]uid: 7143 topic_id: 2614 reply_id: 7585[/import]