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I just received an e-mail saying that GameAnalytics has released an updated plugin for the Corona SDK. This is great news! In my last game Dragonflies I used the GameAnalytics plugin and was planning to do so in Ice Trap as well. It's an incredibly easy and efficient way to track your users' behavior, and if you're not doing it already I strongly recommend you to have a look at GameAnalytics. I haven't had time to test the new plugin yet, but will definitely do so in the near future. You can  read the full news about the plugin here .

Corona Labs recently announced a new major release of the Corona SDK platform, including a long list of fixes and features as well as iOS 10 support. The release notes state that "In the current development cycle, our engineers have been working hard on addressing infrastructure and core improvements to Corona to make a more stable platform" . This is really good news and I sure hope that it is as true as it is welcome. Making the core platform better in any way possible has to be the number one focus for Corona Labs at all times in my opinion. But what probably caught most peoples' attention was the following paragraph about changes to the splash screen: "One of these features is new “splash screen” controls, a system which will drastically simplify splash screen implementation. Starting with this build, a default Corona-branded splash screen will appear briefly when the app starts. We continue to believe in keeping Corona free to use, but we also need to gr...

Wow! It feels like it was only yesterday that Corona Labs was aquired by Perk Inc. I believe it was somewhere around November-December last year (2015), and now it's time for another ownership change. Perk sells Corona Labs: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160915005710/en/Perk-Sells-Corona-Labs-Retains-Exclusive-Rewards Not really sure if this is good or bad, but I hope and believe that it will be mostly good. The year that's passed since Perk took over hasn't really pushed Corona SDK in any clear direction, at least not from what I can tell. The Corona platform still suffers from many of the same issues as it did a year ago, such as poor performance, not enough focus on core functionality, and bugs that take ages to fix. Hopefully we'll see a more focused and dedicated company in the future, bringing us an even better 2D game development platform. Because despite the flaws that I just mentioned in the paragraph above, I still believe that Corona SDK is a ...