Wow !!!
This is one of the many success stories that keeps the team coming to work each day and ploughing through even when days are dark as today with the iPadGate debacle.
Thank you Joakim. Your story put a big smile on all the team members and it is stories like yours that make us make Corona better each day.
Carlos.
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Very sound advice and a great story, thanks for sharing as there are many of us that can relate! Go get it Joakim! [import]uid: 48203 topic_id: 23438 reply_id: 93954[/import]
Glad to hear of your successes. This is a great inspiration to people just starting out and to those who have been using Corona for a while, but have run into problems.
Wishing you much success with your game when it is ready.
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Thanks for the words of wisdom, Joakim—I’m sure many people will benefit from your advice, and be inspired by your achievements!
Keep up the great work 
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Corona’s the best 
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I hit a slump in my development, but your story re-invigorated me! Thanks Joakim!! Your inspiration is just what I needed. Thanks for sharing too!! [import]uid: 11636 topic_id: 23438 reply_id: 93993[/import]
Really awesome read, I love stories like this! [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 23438 reply_id: 94034[/import]
Yes it it is a nice story.
As a new member I also think this.
Want to welcome you ,jkrassman
Carry on with your success story.
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Many big thanks for you response!
I just wrote down my thoughts from my head, and I am still not sure why? I really hope that I made some sense with my post.
Put all your energy in something that you believe in, and you will get a result! Don’t waste your skills on things that doesn’t matter. Go for it, and you will succeed, especially with Corona!
Even if you are - just you, you can make a diffrence! Keep it going!
Best regards, Joakim
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Seems there are a number of us 45-year-old-started-programming-at-15-former-pascal-programmers-who-fell-in-love-with-Corona types!
Congratulations Joakim on your in-progress projects (I have many of those as well)!
You are absolutely correct! Let’s make a difference!
Cheers,
Brian
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Just want to say thanks for taking the time to write these details to offer encouragement. I am 33yrs old and just starting development. I have never had the confidence to do it before now, and I have absolutely NO previous programming knowledge (apart from print “hello” on the spectrum 48k (rubber keys!!!))
So I am very scared and nervous, often have feelings of “why bother when so many talented developers out there already able to program any ideas you can think of”. sometimes those feelings get the best of me, but I just love technology and have been a huge computer and video games player literally all my life since the age of around 5/6. This love is now transferred to code because I get more satisfaction from making my own games work than I get from completing a game made by someone else!
So no matter how long it takes, and no matter how many of my ideas have already been thought of somewhere else… I vow to keep learning until one day that one idea comes through.
Thanks to team corona this program and all its friendly staff and followers make my dreams possible!
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Pretty inspiring, especially for us, the new members [import]uid: 109558 topic_id: 23438 reply_id: 96854[/import]
I got an email and twitter earlier about what other stuff can motivate you guys?
Well, don’t know much about motivation in the sense of the word motivation, but how about in entrepreneurship in general? thought it is going to sound like a shameless plug… but the twitter today, a blog yesterday and an email made me think i could post this here as well…
ten commandments for entrepreneurs.
http://www.carlosicaza.com/2010/11/22/carlos-ten-commandments-for-entrepreneurs/
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@Carlos Just would like to thank you for doing that very sincere video.
Gracias por vos ser este empresario “diferente”! Usted no tienes idea como eso es algo muy especial.
Saludos hermano,
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An absolutely awesome video presentation from Carlos. +1
Don’t forget it’s also available in Spanish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ylw7bBJsJs [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 23438 reply_id: 97033[/import]
Got it Mrs. Peach!
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Sharing is Caring.
Being in my early 40’s and having spend most of my life working with SQL, PHP, VB, C; I was starting to believe that I wont be able to learn and do some serious stuff in Corona after few unsuccessful attempts.
After reading your experience with Corona/Lua I found new strength and hope and will definitely put in more efforts to deliver some serious apps/games.
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This is somewhat related to the previous posts RE entrepreneurship although it takes a slightly different direction, still, it’s worth sharing here; http://www.carlosicaza.com/2012/03/29/10-crucial-lessons-learned-from-running-a-startup/
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Hi Joakim, Thanks for this story! Although a little lengthy I was happy to read your experience, especially because I am going through it as well.
I always hear on podcasts how “easy” it is to develop apps in Corona / LUA and how non-programmers could just all of a sudden make apps. So I was intimidated at first because when I saw myself struggle with (memory leaks, modules and scene changing), I began to feel crappy.
I am a web developer and to hear that a non-programmer could just get an app up in a week is very scary to me! But I sometimes don’t give myself enough credit.
Anyways, thanks again, and I do agree, never give up!
btw, I have to give much credit to PEACH, as she has been a source of inspiration and help ever since I contacted her via forum. She quickly convinced me that posting to the Corona forum was the BEST thing to do, and now I understand why! [import]uid: 129334 topic_id: 23438 reply_id: 98995[/import]
So, four month later - who stoled all the time? Corona did!
I just want to get back and fill you in what I have done or where we are now. We are still in the development progress and the game has recently been tested by children. One test occurred in a kindergarten and we got some nice feedbacks from there, we are on the right track!
The animation engine I have spoken above is now finished to 99,9% and it works like a charm! I haven’t touched that part for 2 months so I guess that it means success I have some issues with the “eyes” of some animals, but thats just a minor issue and it will be solved over one day of debugging…
The game is almost done and we are only missing some animations and I guess that we will hit the market by this fall. This will be our first game and we don’t except anything. We don’t except a great success and we don’t except to be millionaires over night. This is just the first step to build our brand. A brand that will positioning us among the best - thats one of our goals. Aim high, you will get halfway. Thats our internal…I don’t know it in english…
I am about to reach my goal, it has taken its time. As I said before - never give up! If you give up, you will never reach to the goal - simple as it is. I know, sometimes its hard and it all feels like going uphill but it will change, I can assure you that - so keep it up and work with your goals, and reach them.
So, keep it up - and aim for your goals - as I am!
Regards, Joakim
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