Corona Labs, the mobile SDK company that builds rich mobile apps, has announced that Doom and Quake designer John Romero has joined the company on its advisory board. Corona offers Lua-based Corona SDK to mobile developers to help them create games and apps for iOS, Android, Nook, and Kindle Fire.

Romero will assume a role on the advisory board of Corona Labs and will direct Corona’s mobile business and guide the challenges facing game developers today. Romero came into fame having designed seminal FPS titles such as Doom and Quake and is considered one of the bigger names in the history of gaming. Most recently he worked with his wife Brenda at their mobile studio Loot Drop, and the pair also recently began teaching at UCSC.

“The challenges that game developers are facing today in mobile is trying to make a game that hasn’t been made already,” said Romero in a short video interview. “With frameworks like Corona, it make it a lot easier to get your game design on the device. That’s important, especially to people who are excited about game design.”

“Developing with Corona has been something that really supports the way I feel game development should be done: extremely fast iteration and being able to debug.”

The mobile industry is evolving at incredible speed and developers need to deal with increased complexity each day. Corona Labs accelerate the app creation process for all developers, especially Corona SDK users, as they integrate mobile apps with the cloud.

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Romero interest in working with Corona stalks from his rich vast experience in programming mobile games in the early days of the 21st century where developers had difficult time in developing mobile games without much SDKs available.

Corona SDK is an excellent tool development that allows developers to create mobile applications for both Android and for iPhone or iPad.  It is based on LUA – a programming language that is completely user-friendly, similar to actionscript 3.0. Corona SDK is intent to make life easier for developers who want to see made their own app, without having to learn complicated programming languages, such as Java or XCode. The interesting thing about this SDK is that it has a very advanced physics engine allowing developers to create games just by typing a few lines of code.

Corona is optimized to take advantage of the hardware acceleration features, resulting in high performance in games and applications. It has native controls for access to the device hardware like camera, accelerometer, GPS, etc. The real revolution of this framework, however, is the ability to write a single code and make the distributions to radically different device, such as iOS and Android, with development time drastically improved and a final performance that is unmatched with any other product competitor.