Isn't the price of Corona a YEARLY RENTAL price, and not the price to buy the application outright?
Currently it's $350 to "purchase Ansca Corona", and "Purchasing Corona includes a one-year subscription to all the software updates." ... http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/faq/
So can I continue to use my version of Corona to develop, compile and publish apps after one year?
For me the only big pluses in Corona over GS are Openfeint, and engine speed. Games that would suffer in GS would run as intended in Corona. For me, making games is more of a hobby and an opportunity to make some pocket money because my band is my priority, so learning any coding isn't really on the table at this stage. I can't wait to see GS incorporate some of Corona's features, and most importantly MASSIVE improvements to the GS engine.
I thought 0.9.0 of GameSalad was supposed to have significant improvements in performance, but I didn't see it. With the video loading screen, it seems to have gotten worse.
Meanwhile... Corona still doesn't have support for iAds. I think Game Center is more important than OpenFeint. So, those are two big iOS features that are missing.
This is an old thread though. I don't think this is a good place to discuss Corona.
For the time being, I intend to stick with GameSalad. However, as others have said, I think it is imperative that GameSalad implement features such as the iPhone/iPad keyboard, the iPhone Camera, as well as shrinking the size of projects to at least under 20 MB on average. I LOVE the fact that GameSalad uses a GUI to design scenes, but to really eliminate any and all competition out there, GameSalad NEEDS to add the features mentioned previously.
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Currently it's $350 to "purchase Ansca Corona", and "Purchasing Corona includes a one-year subscription to all the software updates." ...
http://www.anscamobile.com/corona/faq/
So can I continue to use my version of Corona to develop, compile and publish apps after one year?
Perhaps someone can clarify this for me.
Meanwhile... Corona still doesn't have support for iAds. I think Game Center is more important than OpenFeint. So, those are two big iOS features that are missing.
This is an old thread though. I don't think this is a good place to discuss Corona.