Monthly Archive for September, 2010

cocos2d v0.99.5-beta2 is available for download:

• cocos2d-iphone-0.99.5-beta2.tar.gz

Release Notes:

• v0.99.5-beta2 Release Notes

API Reference:

• v0.99.5-beta2 API Reference

Full ChangeLog:

• CHANGELOG

Highlights:

• Added support for Mac. Your cocos2d / CocosDenshion game can be ported to Mac with minimal changes

Regarding the Mac Port

cocos2d for Mac works as excepted with the following exceptions:

• CCParticleSystemPoint is not supported. Use CCParticleSystemQuad instead.
• CCTexture2d / CCLabelTTF don’t support FontLabel
• CCRenderTexture doesn’t support “save image” yet
• It doesn’t work with garbage collection yet
• It doesn’t support fullscreen mode yet
• It doesn’t support touches yet.

To port your cocos2d / CocosDenshion game to Mac, you have to:

• Modify the way you initialize / create the CCDirector and the OpenGL view.
• Replace the touches and/or accelerometer events with Mouse and/or keyboard events
• The rest is the same.

The cocos2d-mac.xcodeproj includes several tests that show how to support mouse events and how to initialize the CCDirector / OpenGL view.

The game Sapus Tongue was already ported to Mac. You can find some details about how it was ported in this thread.

Are you porting your game to Mac ? Let use know when the game is finished!