Any chance Corona will support the new GameKit APIs in iOS 5? We really need this.
GKTurnBasedMatch supports turn-based gaming with invites and matching:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/GameKit/Reference/GKTurnBasedMatch_Ref/Reference/Reference.html [import]uid: 295 topic_id: 16731 reply_id: 316731[/import]
I dont think so. We dont have even Game Center! 
The problem, IMHO, is Corona is cross-plataform. I dont realize an App with unique features and dont do the SAME thing in android. Of course, some things is exclusive from each platafform, but I think this is too specific, unless Ansca do something similar in Android (the same if was the opposite).
I mean, if its a feature from Game center, for exemple, it is a plataform thing, so, its ok. Its a external service and I dont care to be avaliable in iOS only. But if its something in API level, must be avaliable in both plataforms. [import]uid: 9133 topic_id: 16731 reply_id: 62640[/import]
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I think it was stated before that updates will not be universal anymore. Meaning some platforms will get features before others. This really is the only way to proceed since the gap between IOS and android feature sets is widening. It has been a long time and android has not made their own gaming social network. I think its clear that they want to leave this to 3rd parties.
I personally think not directly supporting game center is hurting corona over all especially with the features Apple keep adding to game center: match making, cross promotion within game center, ability to purchase games from within game center, and now turn based games.
Adding game center support and turn based game support would be a great feature to add to corona as this eliminates the need for external servers for multiplayer turn based games, one element that may prevent indie developers from creating multiplayer games. This feature would open up a whole new environment and market sector to corona developers. Previously developers would have to spend large amounts of capital on the set up and infrastructure to make these apps possible. This feature cuts all those costs and builds it directly into every device. This seems like a feature too good not to support. [import]uid: 10192 topic_id: 16731 reply_id: 65292[/import]
I’m going to chime in on this. I’m researching porting my WP7 games over and creating new ones. I want to do this on a middle layer tech where I can implement the most popular API’s of each platform (Game Center, IAP, Open Feint, sensors etc).
Not having Game Center in corona is a huge ding on my research and I may not purchase. We need all the visibility we can get and of course simply read reviews of various games… “4 stars because no game center support” etc…
Corona’s value is not strictly cross platform feature parity but just as equal, if not more valuable is getting to write LUA in one codebase for two platforms vs. ObjectiveC and Java with two codebases. [import]uid: 102184 topic_id: 16731 reply_id: 67886[/import]
It’s great to see that some of the Game Center features are available in Corona now, but access to the turn-based gaming API would be my number one imperative absolute top priority must-have request.
Eventually I expect I’ll need to have my own game hosting service to support non-iOS or non-Game Center players, but at launch I was planning to focus on iOS only and lean on the Game Center for user management and game hosting.
I’ve just about ported all my game logic from Unity/Javascript to Corona/Lua on the mistaken impression that Corona supported all Game Center features. Now that I am once again at the point of having a working pass-and-play game, I need to get remote turn-based play working for my game to be marketable.
I don’t want to have to port my game to Objective C after all that. Is there a time-frame for when we can expect the turn-based gaming features of Game Center/iOS5 to be supported in Corona? [import]uid: 131885 topic_id: 16731 reply_id: 94156[/import]
I agree on the importance of turn based Game Center. I hope it gets done soon too 
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Even standalone game center is only available in daily build for now, so I am guessing we wont see turn based game center till near the end of year.
Sorry to hear that you ported from unity to corona for game center features, must be alot of work! I am just wondering why you didn’t go with unity since they do have 3rd party plugins for game center multiplayer?
price maybe? unity pro is expensive… [import]uid: 49513 topic_id: 16731 reply_id: 94258[/import]
+1 for turned based support in Game Center. [import]uid: 52771 topic_id: 16731 reply_id: 105480[/import]