Corona - Corona

Corona Product Information

What is Corona?

Corona is an easy-to-learn and powerful cross-platform 2D game engine ideal for rapidly creating apps and games for mobile devices and desktop systems. It supports development for a wide range of devices, including Apple iPhone, iPad, Android phones, and tablets, Amazon Fire, Mac Desktop, Windows Desktop, and connected TVs like Apple TV, Fire TV, and Android TV. The engine is Lua-based, offering an open source scripting language designed to be lightweight, fast, yet also powerful.

How to Use Corona?

With Corona, developers can select from numerous plugins, extend the core features, call any native library, and develop for mobile, desktop, and connected TV devices with just one code base. The engine offers a streamlined development process with updates instantly visible in the Simulator, and it optimizes performance at every core level. The Corona Marketplace provides various project templates, graphical assets, music, sound effects, and plugins, while also offering the ability to find or distribute necessary resources. The open-source nature of Corona allows developers to contribute features and obtain priority support, provided by the engineering team via a community Slack channel and email.

Core Features of Corona

• Cross-platform development
• Lua scripting language
• Plugin support
• Native library integration
• Instant-update Simulator
• Corona Marketplace
• Open source
• Priority support

Use Cases of Corona

• 2D Game Development
• App Development

FAQ about Corona