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Corona Labs Digest March 2, 2015 This week we have two very big announcements: First, Corona SDK is now FREE. Everyone using the Corona Simulator now gets the functionality that used to be included in Corona SDK Pro. Second, we are soon going to support building Mac and Win32 desktop apps. Read more about both, our presence at GDC this week and an update on Fuse Powered's (our parent company) monetization engine in the blog post! And, as usual, read on below for some great tutorials and resources for your apps and games. Have a great week! The Corona Labs Team   Download Corona Corona Geek Corona Geek #130: Game Project Organization, Using Globals and Handling Debugging Statements Upcoming Events Game Developers Conference 2015 (March 2nd-6th) Jon Walsh will be presenting "Player Centric Live Ops Monetization". Stop by booth # 1244 to learn more about Fuse & Corona products. 3 Ways to More Effectively Re-engage your players A guest post by Long Vo, co-founder of GameThrive, on how to best re-engage your players. Tutorial: Formatting Strings in Lua In this tutorial learn how string.format() comes into play when formatting to your specifications.   Tutorial: Using Coroutines in Corona An advanced tutorial on Lua coroutines by Steven Johnson. Tutorial: Inputting text in Windows Phone 8 When creating a Windows Phone 8 app using CoronaCards, porting an existing Corona SDK app is easy — here is a tutorial for one of the items that might be a bit harder. . From the Forum #61 In this week's From the Forum: Timers and their queries, handling URLs like a Pro and the moon! Corona University Make sure to visit Corona University regularly. We have a huge number of tutorials and videos to get you started, with new ones every week.