Corona is certainly an exciting platform for game development. Just 5 months ago the number of tutorials available were counted in tens at most. But today there’s an increasing number of them and so, before it becomes overwhelming i’d like to compile a list of the Corona tutorials that have helped me the most to understand the power of the engine.

Before we start i’d like to exclude the included examples. They are awesome if you wish to learn how to use a specific feature. Keep that in mind.

1.– Make  a Game in 8 minutes

Even though the title is kind of a lie because only the first part is 8 minutes long and the rest in the series varies, this series is the perfect entry point into Corona Development. Going through these series you’ll quickly master the art of creating objects, dealing with physics and even create a simple game, which may not seem like much to you, but a variant of it(Float)  has managed to sell a lot, and i mean a lot.

2.–Rafael Hernandez’s Screencasts

Rafael Hernadez’s screencasts are something you have to do early on to get the best out of them. If you wait too long, you’ll probably be wishing he goes much faster with some of the basics so go ahead and take them right after you go through the above tutorials.

3.–Understanding Lua tables in Corona SDK

If you’re just getting started with Lua and Corona you may not know yet that one of the fundamental aspects of the language are indeed the tables. You are guaranteed to use them at one point or another. So please, understand them before you start on any project because failure to do so might lead you on several paths of unnecessary burden.

The tutorial linked in the title is one of the most comprehensive ones on tables that you will find on the net. So take your time and read it entirely. And you may want to look further on this topic.

This concludes our list of the essential Corona tutorials. IF you really like tutorials you can go down into http://learningcorona.com which is a complete resource of all the tutorials on Corona up to date but a word of advice. Once you go through the basics, start a project, even a simple one and put all you learned into practice and that which you don’t know may be found in the API reference.