Building a Candy Crush Style Mobile Game in Under 1 Hour

Casual mobile games, such as King.com's Candy Crush Saga, are setting monetization records and attracting a huge audience. Walter Luh of Corona Labs will show mobile developers how they can use Corona SDK (http://www.coronalabs.com/) to build a Candy Crush-style game, with sophisticated effects and gameplay, in under 1 hour!

Walter will do a code walkthrough and cover how to work with a physics engine, handle touch events, implement game logic, provide score keeping, and make use of in-game audio. He'll use only 9 functions and just over 500 lines of simple code to create an impressive end result.

As background, Corona SDK is a popular development platform for building cross-platform 2D games for mobile devices. Blockbusters include Fun Run (20M+ downloads), Blast Monkeys (12M+ downloads) and more. Check out the Corona Hall of Fame (http://coronalabs.com/halloffame) for more app and game spotlights.

Schedule:

6:30 - 7:00pm - Registration, food, and welcome remarks

7:00 - 7:45pm - Presentation by Walter Luh

7:45 - 8:00pm - Q&A

8:00 - 8:30pm - Networking and refreshments

Speaker: Walter Luh, CEO of Corona Labs

Bio: Walter Luh is Founder and CEO of Palo Alto-based Corona Labs and the creator of Corona SDK, the company's flagship product. Used by over 250,000 developers and designers worldwide, Corona SDK is the leading platform for mobile app and game development. In a previous life, Walter was Lead Architect for Adobe Flash Lite, a mobile runtime that has shipped on over a billion devices. During that time, he led the engineering team, pioneered advanced mobile graphics, and jump-started key strategic relationships. Prior to Flash, Walter shipped several industry-standard products for creative professionals including Adobe Illustrator and Apple’s Final Cut Pro. Walter holds an undergraduate degree in Physics from Swarthmore College and a Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University.

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