Pinko's Tale Written by a 12 year old Author!

Hello Everyone! Nearly a year ago I posted on Corona Forums I was interested in learning Programming and I must say at first I thought it was impossible. I always saw my brother program his apps and I would help him with game ideas and always was interested in creating my own apps. Well about a year ago I began taking interest in Programming and my brother thought me the ropes around Corona he showed me tutorials that helped him out such as videos from Cheetomoskeeto and great tutorials from Peach Pellen. I also want to thank great classes that made it many things very simple such as Director Class and Beebegames and of course my brother Chris from LeivaGames.

On 2006 my baby brother died (R.I.P) he was only 9 months old and at that time I was only 6 years old but I will never forget during his time alive he was always in hospitals due to his illness and he had a favorite toy, which was a stuffed animal (a baby alligator) It was such a sad moment in my life I will never forget. I remember seeing my mother and family very sad and I always wanted to do something in memory of my baby brother and make my mother happy.

About a year ago I took interest in programming and I wrote a story using my baby brother’s favorite toy as the Main Character in the story. When I read the story to my family and friends everyone seemed to enjoyed it and I asked my brother for help in creating my first E-Book. I must say it was a great learning experience and even if my brothers did most of the programming part I learned so much and with what I learned in the process I am now making my very first Game App and im so excited to be able see friends and family play games I create and read my story, but none of this would had been possible without Corona SDK!

I want to thank Ansca and the whole community everyone that shares amazing codes and help out in the forums, all of you have been so amazing I am very happy to be part of the community and I apologize for not helping out much but im learning on my spare time since I have school. But as soon as I am an experienced programmer I will share any knowledge I have and if anyone needs help and I can help you out I will gladly help! I also want to thank my brother for helping me out so much and I am very excited seeing my first E-Book on iPad and iPhone and we are working to releasing it on other platforms like Android/Kindle/Nook!

If you have read this entire post I am very grateful and ask you to please download my E-Book and give me good ratings! :slight_smile: I will also post my Twitter and Facebook if you want to follow me or add me and I will follow you back and add you! Thank You everyone so much and im giving out 6 promo codes below!!! 3 will be for iPad Version and 3 for iPhone Version I hope you all like it and I appreciate any feedback as I look to improve in this field.

Pinko’s Tale HD (iPad Version)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinkos-tale-hd/id586522044?ls=1&mt=8

Pinko’s Tale (iPhone Version)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pinkos-tale/id586520923?ls=1&mt=8

Promo Codes FREE
iPad Version: PPEJHNFL4T7R 7EKRRWEWWH3K K9ARXJY6HNLH
iPhone Version: EA3HRMP34E3X EHFXYPYWME9N XXKPW4AEXMTW

My Twitter: https://twitter.com/RyanLeiva28
My Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ryan.leiva.9
LeivaGames Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeivaGames
LeivaGames Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/LeivaGames/126821094089862

Thank You Corona Labs and the entire community! I am so grateful and excited to have turn this dream into a reality! I have been interview in the radio and I must say this experience and journey wouldn’t be possible without Corona SDK it is such an amazing product and my sincere gratitude goes out to the Everyone at Corona Labs! [import]uid: 39667 topic_id: 35143 reply_id: 335143[/import]

Congrats!
Your baby brother will be remembered… [import]uid: 70847 topic_id: 35143 reply_id: 139713[/import]

Congrats! It’s beautifully done. And thank you for sharing your your story.

Naomi
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Ryan - congratulations on getting your app on the app stores! That is a great accomplishment and you should be proud. Please let us (Corona Labs) know if we can help in any other way. My email is david@coronalabs.com

David
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That’s very awesome Ryan! I’m sorry for your family’s loss, but you are making something beautiful out of it. I love the art work and think you’re doing an incredible thing. It’s amazing how may young developers there are in the Corona community. I’m thinking about putting together a Corona Geek episode around “Young App Entrepreneurs” where a panel of young developers like yourself would come on the show and share your experience with everyone. If that’s something you’re interested in let me know. Email me any time, charles@coronalabs.com to discuss it.

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Congrats Ryan! Thanks for sharing such an inspiring story with us! [import]uid: 26 topic_id: 35143 reply_id: 140099[/import]

Thank You everyone so much for your kind words! I am truly grateful to Corona Labs and this great community without you guys this would not had been possible. This has been amazing I never thought I would be able to see my own book available on the App Store or any mobile market. But I continue to say that Corona SDK is truly amazing ! I tried Game Salad to avoid coding because when I saw my brother programming seeing so many codes felt so confusing but it’s all a matter of time and patience and once you start to understand a bit everything else just clicks to you. I will always be very grateful to Corona Labs, the community, my brother, everyone thank you so much for your kind words!

@ DavidRangel - Thank You very much and I will definitely be in contact with you!

@ Charles McKeever - Thank You so much and that would be an honored to be part of an episode on Corona Geek! I will email you and once again thank you very much for considering me!

Everyone else once again Thank You so much for all your kind words it means so much to me! [import]uid: 39667 topic_id: 35143 reply_id: 140142[/import]

Congrats!
Your baby brother will be remembered… [import]uid: 70847 topic_id: 35143 reply_id: 139713[/import]

Congrats! It’s beautifully done. And thank you for sharing your your story.

Naomi
[import]uid: 67217 topic_id: 35143 reply_id: 139761[/import]

Ryan - congratulations on getting your app on the app stores! That is a great accomplishment and you should be proud. Please let us (Corona Labs) know if we can help in any other way. My email is david@coronalabs.com

David
[import]uid: 10668 topic_id: 35143 reply_id: 139803[/import]

That’s very awesome Ryan! I’m sorry for your family’s loss, but you are making something beautiful out of it. I love the art work and think you’re doing an incredible thing. It’s amazing how may young developers there are in the Corona community. I’m thinking about putting together a Corona Geek episode around “Young App Entrepreneurs” where a panel of young developers like yourself would come on the show and share your experience with everyone. If that’s something you’re interested in let me know. Email me any time, charles@coronalabs.com to discuss it.

[import]uid: 208407 topic_id: 35143 reply_id: 140037[/import]

Congrats Ryan! Thanks for sharing such an inspiring story with us! [import]uid: 26 topic_id: 35143 reply_id: 140099[/import]

Thank You everyone so much for your kind words! I am truly grateful to Corona Labs and this great community without you guys this would not had been possible. This has been amazing I never thought I would be able to see my own book available on the App Store or any mobile market. But I continue to say that Corona SDK is truly amazing ! I tried Game Salad to avoid coding because when I saw my brother programming seeing so many codes felt so confusing but it’s all a matter of time and patience and once you start to understand a bit everything else just clicks to you. I will always be very grateful to Corona Labs, the community, my brother, everyone thank you so much for your kind words!

@ DavidRangel - Thank You very much and I will definitely be in contact with you!

@ Charles McKeever - Thank You so much and that would be an honored to be part of an episode on Corona Geek! I will email you and once again thank you very much for considering me!

Everyone else once again Thank You so much for all your kind words it means so much to me! [import]uid: 39667 topic_id: 35143 reply_id: 140142[/import]