"Powered with love ..."?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#61

Last time I checked (3-5 months ago) the free version had “Personal Edition” below “Made with Unity” which added quite a bit of extra incentive to pay for the Plus version. Similar to “with love” but without the cheesiness. Just less “pro” :slight_smile:

I’ve never really considered releasing something with the default screen but I actually liked the previous “Made with Corona Labs” when I saw it. It was clean and with less potential to ruin the visual consistency of the app compared to Unity’s ugly gradients.

#62

I think the splash screen’s main point of value is to attract people to Corona, who don’t know Corona yet (or hardly).

As such, I think it would be good to add, as they do in marketing, express a benefit and/or reason to believe. And to pull in new users, it’s probably a good idea to talk about how easy it is for beginners - while still being great for power user.

So, why not say something like:

Powered by Corona

  • Quick and easy coding
  • Powerful game engine
  • Great community
  • Free for all!
#63

Hi the above forum entries mention corny and cringeworthy. I’ve sadly had the same experience, every serious developer I show my apps to when I’m trying to get them to convert to Corona, made a face when they saw the splash screen. It starts the app off on the wrong foot since it’s the first impression. Please change it back to ‘powered by corona sdk’. That looked a lot more hardcode and professional… like we’d see in console games…

The feedback I’m always given is ‘With love’ is just too campy (most definitely for business apps)

Corona is an amazingly impressive platform, it’s hard for people to take it seriously as a hardcode gaming platform when it’s showing us love :slight_smile: It just doesn’t go together with the image of a harcore gamimg platform (it pushes it down a few levels in developers’ perception)

Please have a survey if need be, then please strongly consider changing it back. I think most developers will agree. The ones I showed it to do. (or, very worst case, please give us a choice between the two so we can use with love maybe on the kids games, and powered by corona on the business apps and more hardcode games) Thanks so much, we appreciate your consideration of this.

#64

Hmmm, sorry i missed it the first time around… on reading the next page of forum entries for this topic I see Rob mentioned the ‘with love’ may be removed in the next release? so maybe this is already done? If so, thank you so much!!

#65

The “with love” was removed in the last public release (2017.3184) and later daily builds.

Please update to 3184 or later.

Thanks

Rob

#66

Will do. Thanks! sorry I missed that post. You guys are awesome

#67

I sort of miss the love now. I do casual games. “love” get it a softer feeling.