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  • Free Friday: Corona Cross-Promo Tool (Beta)

    Posted on April 29th, 2011 IndieGamePod 5 comments

    Hey folks,

    Here’s the code I mentioned last week…a little belated…but we would be releasing some code for Corona developers…here for indie devs to help cross-promote their Corona games with other developers.

    It’s in beta form…
    you can download it here…
    http://www.indiegamepod.com/promotool.zip

    You can also sign up for the service here…
    http://www.indiegamepod.com/crosspromo/creditsystem.php

    You’ll get a “promo id” via e-mail…put that in your promo .lua file…so all downloads through your game give you credits…and then your game gets promoted in other people’s apps 🙂

    Feel free to add feedback + comments 🙂

     

    5 responses to “Free Friday: Corona Cross-Promo Tool (Beta)” RSS icon

    • Aapo Tanskanen

      Stupid question, but what this is?? Can you explain it clearly? All i understant is that this has something to do with promotion.

    • Sure,

      Basically…this is like a link exchange inside Corona apps.

      If you’re using Director in Corona…you can place this inside your app on its own screen…and the code calls the server and displays the relevant apps by other devs.

      As your players download them, you earn credits…these credits let you place a promo for your game in other dev’s game…

      Basically, it’s a link exchange 🙂

    • Me and a friend are expanding on the game I submitted last weekend, I’ll definitely look at adding this in.

    • Cool,

      Let me know if there are any issues. I’ll look into providing a sample way to use the code 🙂

    • Aapo Tanskanen

      Pretty cool! But there is yet one big problem: as now nobody is using this. So it is not very usefull yet, but if it gets popular, i think this is very good tool.


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