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#101

My name is Daniel Swanson. Though I’m one of the original “baby boomers”, born in 1950, I’ve remained young and inquisitive.

My first exposure to programming was a friend’s “Trash-80” when I got a genuine thrill after telling it to print “Hello” on the screen in BASIC.

That same friend also bought one of the first 128K Macs in 1984, and he let me play with it.

From then on I was hopelessly hooked on the Mac and have been using it as my artistic “brush” ever since. Freelance illustration using Adobe tools, Helix database, and Strata and Luxology 3D tools for photo-real 3D have been the ways I’ve made my living over the years–all exclusively Mac.

Tiring of the job-to-job grind, I found out about Cocoa/Objective-C on the Mac, and later, Cocoa Touch for iOS with the dream of publishing software with my aesthetic stamp and with an educational focus.

A friend told me about Corona, and I decided to subscribe to learn it and hopefully with it I can get some apps built and published to buy me time to learn more of what I want to learn. [import]uid: 106561 topic_id: 5909 reply_id: 69880[/import]

#102

LOVING Corona!! Can’t wait to know it better. Looking forward to the days ahead. Thanks so much. [import]uid: 115955 topic_id: 5909 reply_id: 84858[/import]

#103

Dan Swanson here.

I’ve been a technical illustrator for 25 years, and with the advent of the Apple iPhone and the iOS SDK I’ve wanted to become a developer, studying Objective-C and Cocoa Touch, but finding the documentation very lacking.

Corona promises a faster path to finished apps, and I’m enjoying the beginning end of that learning curve.

I’m going to make educational apps for all ages with the added touch of my photo-real 3D aesthetics.

Next up is revamping Van-garde Imagery, Inc’s website using Adobe Muse, then VGI Software’s site, and hopefully a few apps made with Corona!

vgis@van-garde.com [import]uid: 106561 topic_id: 5909 reply_id: 84862[/import]

#104

Funny thread, I missed this.

Well, to old to learn new complicated stuff as C or any lower binary or hexadecimal language, made me browse around to see if there where any other options for developing stuff for iOS. Did some things in Appcelerator but it wasn’t good enough. Stumbled into Corona and fall in love with LUA on our first date. Straight forward with a well known syntax! No surprises here!

Have been programming since 1982 and started out with the commodore 20 (VIC 20) and many other systems since that time. Pascal is my native spoken language and I have been in love and married with Borland Delphi for a long time, but we divorced some years ago (10 years) when the web 2.0 came into my life. But nowadays I have given up the web and having a affair with a girl called Lua, she is awesome.

It’s almost like when I had Delphi, create threads that I lost control over and crashed my computer. But Lua has her own way to thread stuff, controllable timers that doesn’t end up in a loop of death - just love it! It is maybe not comparable but this must be da shit.

Just now, 2 games in development and goal is to release at least 4-5 this year.

I will be back!

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#105

Hi all, I’m Chris. I’ve been around here for a while but only just got round to introducing myself.
I first started coding in BASIC on the zx81 and Spectrum back in the day but never did anything with it. I wrote my first proper game about 10 years ago using Flash, and although it was playable I never got around to finishing it. I first picked up Corona about 18 months ago but never did anything with it, messed around with GameSalad for a while but quickly realised just how restrictive it is and then just started messing with Corona again after finding it sat in my Applications folder. For my first project I kind of bit off rather more than I could chew as I was new to the language and learning as I went along. During my time off from work over the new year I started on a new project and hopefully it will be hitting the app store within the next couple of weeks.
You can get a bit of information about it at my website - http://www.aquietspace.org
As for me, by day I’m a senior laptop repair engineer with 14+ years experience under my belt. I’m also a family man with a gorgeous wife and daughter. Coding is a hobby that I really enjoy. I wouldn’t say I’m particularly good at it, but if I can make a bit of money then yay me!

While I’m here I’d also like to thank everyone here for the amazing help and support that is available through the forums, as well as all the staff for making Corona so flippin’ awesome :slight_smile: [import]uid: 7841 topic_id: 5909 reply_id: 86621[/import]

#106

Hey everyone!
I’m Nenad, living in Valencia, Spain, where I founded no sheet design studio.
I’m an architect turned interaction designer turned game designer.
So far I only published one game, it’s Foosball Hero, a hyper-realistic 3D foosball for iPad:
www.foosballhero.com

I am also about to publish my first Corona game, Spin Up, hopefully end of Febrary/early March.
www.spin-up-game.com

Been working with Corona for about a year now. Although being fairly familiar/experienced in a range of languages from the good old Z80 assembler to AS3 and C++, love the flexibility of Lua and very very smart set of APIs from Ansca Mobile. It allows me to focus on game design itself and development follows very smoothly.

Cheers
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#107

I’m lakeviewhotel. Got my name from a area in the game silent hill 2. I thought I would use corona sdk for publishing iOS apps. Experimented with different languages, but thought I would use corona to get my foot into the door for app development. Also wanting to sell a couple of simple games. If I can get it done in time, the release of my first game will be next month or three weeks. [import]uid: 128294 topic_id: 5909 reply_id: 87756[/import]

#108

Hi, I’m Peter. I have been here for quite a while, but just now saw this thread. I am 14, and am the only member of our dev company, Blue Spruce Games. I have just published my first game, Sharks Vs. Subs. I am also working on another game, probably for release later this spring or summer, and doing an app for a company.
I love Corona SDK for the ease of use that allows me to come in and make an app in just my spare time outside of school, even with no programming background. I want to thank all the people here for their help on the forums putting up with all my simple questions from my first days here!
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#109

Hey Peter, congrats on your first game! (Looks great!)

Looking forward to seeing more cool stuff from you in the future :slight_smile:

Peach [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 5909 reply_id: 91656[/import]

#110

Hey everyone! I haven’t Introduced myself yet! I’m Roy from New Jersey and I think i am the only developer in New Jersey or even on the east coast! I am part of a duo called Mt. Everest Games and our website is Play Mega Online I wear many hats for our “company” as lead designer, lead artist, and for our latest two projects, lead programmer. I have been having a lot of fun with Corona and released Smashing Cans on May 22nd and have RoyMan’s ninja Trainer in the review process right now.

Here are some links for you to check out my stuff, I love feedback!

Smashing Cans Facebook

Smashing Cans iTunes

Mt. Everest Games Facebook

My Portfolio

Theres plenty of information on me at all those places! Hope to see you guys around!

Also if there are any Jersey corona devs let me know, I’d love to start some sort of meet up out here! [import]uid: 50511 topic_id: 5909 reply_id: 108416[/import]

#111

Hey Sean! I’ll gladly trade likes with you. We all could use exposure! What’s your Facebook addy? Mines here. Smashing Cans.

If anyone else has a Facebook page let me know. I would be glad to give some support and like your page! Social media is a powerful tool we as a community should embrace! [import]uid: 50511 topic_id: 5909 reply_id: 108661[/import]

#112

Why hello there everybody. My name is Sean and I am pretty much the sole member of the team that is Never Recycle. I started using Corona recently after I getting frustrated with converting my apps from iOS to the Android platform. I hated it enough to completely switch languages to a cross platform system.

Currently my released Corona projects have just been me converting over my musical education apps. Not very exciting but that’s okay. I do have some higher caliber projects which I look forward to sharing as soon as they are ready.

As far as personal info I live in Cocoa Beach, FL but work for a small, non-mobile software company in Orlando, FL.

Feel free to check out my site(www.neverrecycle.com). I’d be happy to trade ‘Likes’ on Facebook fan pages if anyone is interested. I currently don’t have a twitter account but since Corona seems to use it a lot I may open one up!

Facebook: Facebook page [import]uid: 147305 topic_id: 5909 reply_id: 108650[/import]

#113

Done, also edited my post to add the FB page. [import]uid: 147305 topic_id: 5909 reply_id: 108662[/import]

#114

Hi My name is Boali.
Just wanted to drop a line to say Hi and introduce my self.
I am really excited to be part of corona community.
I am the director of CGBlueplanet.com ,a 3d/2d outsourcing company from canada.
and recently formed zoolax Inc.(a game company).
I am a commercial artist and director for over 10 years,
(if you like you can check out some of my work at www.bdbros.com)
I have pushed myself to learn Lua and corona recently,and I love it.
I am hoping to make a lots of friends around corona community.
Thanks

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#115

Some how I managed to miss this thread.

Hi, I’m Rob Miracle (and yes, that is my **REAL** last name) and I’m one of your Corona Ambassadors.

By day, I’m the Senior Digital News Trainer for the interactive division of the McClatchy company (parent company of the Miami Herald, Charlotte Observer, Sacramento Bee and 27 other daily news papers around the USA). To do that job, I have to be an excellent Web Developer (HTML, JavaScript and CSS) to be able to support everyone who needs help. As a side to this, I’ve become a pretty good expert in WordPress as well. All of my personal web development (I do that on the side) is done in Wordpress where practical.

I’m also a professional photographer (http://www.robmiracle.com) and I’ve been doing that for well over 30 years (only a couple of years longer than I’ve been programming).

Prior to my current Day job, I had a wonderful job working for company that did online games. My forte was the backend side of things (Unix/Linux, C, PHP, MySQL and socket level programming). So I have a lot of experience with interprocess communication, chat, message passing, game theory and such. I was using the Internet before it became the Internet and have been making computers talk to each other since the mid-1980’s.

I came into the Corona SDK family about 15 months ago and have released 5 apps on my own, helped several others and now do contract work “in my spare time” for people. I’ve tinkered with Java (the online gaming company used Java Applets to draw our graphics and game play) and I’ve tried to wrap my head around Objective C, but I’m glad I found Coronaland. This is a happy world.

I also like to share my info, ergo I blog goodies for you from time to time when I can find time. I’m also a cutting edge guy, so I will almost always be running the latest build and tinkering with new features before others get to them.

I like to think I’m pretty humble though I know I come off as arrogant at times. But then sometimes you have to be arrogant in the fields I’m in or you won’t get anywhere.
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#116

Hey zoolax, I’ve seen your site before although I can’t remember what it was in relation to - your artwork is stunning!

@Rob - You contribute so much, you should allow yourself a little arrogance at times :wink: [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 5909 reply_id: 113316[/import]

#117

@ Peach Pellen
Thanks:)
Hi ,I have seen your awesome tutorials as well,they are great source of learning:)
I mostly done concepts for games and tablet games,and also adventure games,our other site is cgblueplanet.com which consists of mine and other staff member’s works.
I am still working on lunching zoolax Inc website.
I am working on couple of games at the moment by corona :slight_smile:
talk to you later:)

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#118

You have a bunch of amazing art there too - looks great! (Makes me wish I were more artistically gifted.)

Hope to see you around the forum! :slight_smile: [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 5909 reply_id: 113450[/import]

#119

I’m new to the Corona community and I wanted to introduce my game assets site which has free graphics and a growing store.

Visit IndieGameDesigner.com for all my free game assets so far.

I’m producing one free game asset set every Monday so check back regularly. [import]uid: 161143 topic_id: 5909 reply_id: 113949[/import]

#120

Hey everyone, Ken here, hoping to learn Corona to make some kickass apps. I’m a graphic designer and illustrator so Corona will hopefully be an awesome platform for me to use my artwork.

Great to see such a happy and helpful community.

you can see some of my stuff at http://www.theloop.com.au/kensmith [import]uid: 158138 topic_id: 5909 reply_id: 113992[/import]