Love2D is already trouncing Corona in the SEO stakes - probably not a good idea to give them even more of a push!
Hi,
Unless something has changed recently, good luck deploying a Love2D app to a mobile device in any capacity that Corona can.
-dev
Perhaps someone from Corona can shed a light as to why this has happened and if it is a permanent change?
Well, quite. But that doesn’t change the fact that a google search for ‘2D Game Engine’ will show Love2D and many other inferior engines on page 1 with Corona hiding away on page 2 or 3.
Corona will only succeed long-term if people know about it. My overwhelming experience of meeting people at conference, meetups and interviews over the past six years is that virtually no-one does. I just landed a contracting role with a mobile game development firm with a turnover of over $20m. Surprise, surprise, they hadn’t heard of Corona, even though it would be perfect for the sort of games they make.
I agree this is somewhat subjective, but the “with love” part makes the whole message outright cringeworthy and makes one wonder what Corona’s target audience is.
Hi,
@nick I’m in complete agreement with you, and not being a SEO specialist, I can only imagine it’s a difficult thing to do, especially when going against open source projects, which generally proliferate well on their own merits.
My comment was mostly a reminder, or perhaps a warning, that Love2D being more “known” by the search engines does not make it a competing, nor superior product.
-dev
Honestly, I think the best Corona could do as far a communication goes is have a video landing page like this one:
That page should show all the coolest games made with Corona running at full blast, interspersed with some footage of people developing and doing cool stuff (like particle emitter testing). Really a missed opportunity in the last redesign of the site, as nothing convinces potential devs like seeing cool visuals of what theycould do.
I second thomas6 idea above.
The new corona design leaves much to be wanted and personally I struggle with seing it as an improvement over the old, more established one.
Perhaps its in the loop and we dont know about it :rolleyes:
I wasn’t involved in the decision to change the wording on the splash screen, so I can only provide conjuncture. I know many of you complained that you didn’t like the previous one, so perhaps this was an attempt to make the splash screen more friendly. Since I wasn’t involved, I have no clue if we considered our competitor or not. However “with love” means we care. It’s not “with LÖVE” i.e. some other product. The splash screen is a graphic embedded in your app, so it’s never going to get picked up by any SEO.
Is it permanent? It’s software, we can always change it. Will we? Who knows. I’ve already brought the “community dislike” of this up to the team, but I’ll probably have to bring it back up again.
What do you want it to say?
Rob
thomas6 might be onto something. The more ppl developing on this platform the better for all of us.
This thread will be picked up by search engines though…
Just seems like you guys need to stop messing around with random stuff like this and get out there (real world and online) and market the damn thing. Show people what it can do.
Thomas has a good suggestion for the site, but that’s pointless if there’s low traffic in the first place.
Well that spiralled out of control quickly 
It’s only a splash screen. Maybe a positive constructive separate thread about marketing might be a better option.
Hi Rob,
What could possibly be wrong with “Powered by Corona Labs” or perhaps “Powered by Corona SDK”, since its all one product now 
The “with love” part though feels cheezy and lacks corporate credibility.
I like “Powered by Corona SDK”
“Powered by Corona Labs” was fine, but it is the name of the company, not the product.
The product is just called “Corona” now and not “Corona SDK”, so just “Powered by Corona”.
@Rob For now it’s only in the splash screen, but if people hadn’t brought it up here then perhaps it would’ve made it’s way into other places such as the website. Then it would have an impact on SEO so I think it’s worth mentioning here.
It’s not “with LÖVE” i.e. some other product.
True. But given that it is the name of a direct competitor (that uses the same language) that appears higher in a google search of 2d game engines, it’s reasonable to assume that it’s more widely known and so it would be easy for someone to think that Corona is something that was built using LÖVE.
Admittedly the smallest bit or investigation would make it clear that’s not the case, but I thought I’d play devil’s advocate on the subject
Powered by Corona is what I usually am during a football game on Sunday afternoons.
Yes, let us not forget the beer, which I’d imagine has powered some amount of game development.
-dev
It still bothers me that corona sdk is now just corona. It really hurt search visablity and brand.
Man asks: “What engine do you use?”
Developer says: “corona”
Man search “corona” on google later and only finds corona beer pages.
I don’t know who’s idea it was to change the name but I bet it was a foreign corona staff member who does not know corona is North America beer.
In terms of the splash screen:
I don’t understand why corona does not copy unity’s splash screen. With “Made with Corona Sdk” (or corona framework).
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-PlayerSettingsSplashScreen.html
We are going to drop the “with love” from the splash screen in the next public build.
We hear you about the branding change, however, we felt that “SDK” was too limiting. The name “Corona” and our use of it was vetted through our trademark lawyers. I understand that it appears to be bad from an SEO perspective, but I would hope we are ranking on keyword searches where people are looking for “game frameworks” “2d game engines” etc. Beer companies won’t show up there.
If you’re specifically searching for Corona, I would hope most people (at least here in the US) would understand that if they know what Corona is (the 2d engine), they would either skip the beer hits (and the references to the sun’s Corona, or one of the 12 other definitions: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/corona) or refine their search criteria to “Corona game engine” or “Corona framework” or similar.
Rob
I didn’t mind the old one. The powered with love is/was a little strange but no complaints so far from any of my users (and trust me I get enough random complaints about colors, buttons and other random things that have nothing to do with the gameplay). Just have to remember when I get that error on the next native build that it is time to switch out the image again.