Corona Labs Corrals A Cloud

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Thomas Claburn.

Corona Labs, maker of the cross-platform mobile development framework Corona SDK, has acquired backend cloud service provider Game Minion to help game developers more easily create apps that integrate with server code. No price was disclosed. Game Minion is a Dubai-based company that relies on Amazon Web Services infrastructure, with funding from Draper Investment Company. Game Minion, which will be renamed Corona Cloud, is presently in closed beta testing and is expected to be made available in the first quarter of 2013.

Corona Cloud relies on a RESTful API, meaning that communication between a developer’s app and the remote server can be coded in a way that’s standardized and portable. This makes it easy to reconfigure a cloud-connected app to communicate with a different backend host if necessary. Mohamed Hamedi, co-founder of Game Minion, said in a statement that his company is focused on offering simple backend services to developers. "Through this acquisition, we will provide the most complete end-to-end mobile development platform on the market," he said. "Features that would normally require the integration of half a dozen SDKs will be offered by Corona Labs in just one, neatly packaged API."…

Simplicity, however, isn’t necessarily the best option in all cases. Some developers using Corona SDK — Corona Labs says there are over 200,000 of them — have been asking for a way to include only specific services in their apps, rather than the current all-or-nothing approach…

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