cocos2d for iPhone

A fast, easy to use, free, and community supported 2D game engine

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   jptsetung
   Member

   The gamejam will start next tuesaday, and it's opened to all. Who will be in ?

   http://gamejam.360idev.com/

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   patrickC
   Member

   I'd love to give it a go, although here in netherlands it would run between 2AM and 3PM.
   If the game theme sparks an interest and I don't pass out sometime during the morning I'm well up for it

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   riq
   Key Master

   I'll try to participate!

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   fabiorodella
   Member

   Just to be clear, do they usually allow the use of libraries such as cocos2d in these? :)

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Benihana
   Member

   Just to be clear, do they usually allow the use of libraries such as cocos2d in these? :)

   Yup! They even mention cocos2d specifically on the blog: http://www.360idev.com/blog/2010/03/360idev-touch-arcade-game-jam

   http://iphonegamejam.com/index.php?title=Announcement

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   jptsetung
   Member

   Here in Paris that will start at 2am I think. I'll try to wake up at 5 or 6 and see if the theme inspire me.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   rolando
   Moderator

   I'll be on too! :-)

   it'll start at 11pm on my country, but it sure will be fun :-D
   any irc channel for the game jam?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Matt Rix
   Member

   I'll be doing it... but I have to go to Montreal at 10pm so I'm only gonna have a couple hours... should be interesting!

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   karnak
   Member

   I'm in if I don't fall asleep before :)
   It will be 0h in my country.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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    sndwav
    Member

    starts at 4am here, but I'll try to participate

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    UseCase
    Member

    I'm in! Codename: Smokey Sharp

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    fabiorodella
    Member

    The theme is out: "Change the world". What do you guys think?

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    jd
    Member

    I have an idea that I think I can implement in the 4 or so hours I plan to spend. Nothing amazing, but fits the theme and should be simple yet fun. If anybody wants to join my team, PM me and I can fill you in. You can decide if you want to participate.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    sndwav
    Member

    I really liked the interpretation I saw on the first post there...
    "CHANGING THE WORLD: ONE DIAPER AT A TIME"

    Time to think now :)

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    jd
    Member

    If anybody is interested. My entry with brief description:
    http://gamejam.360idev.com/greenearth/

    Direct link to gameplay video:
    http://screencast.com/t/i4PbD655bln

    I spent about 6 hours on my entry which is far from complete. I probably spent 2 hours on graphics stuff (not that it looks like it) because I'm not good with graphics or gimp. Before heading to bed (I'm at my real job now), I spent a while trying to figure out how to get the color or alpha of the pixel at the touch point. I read posts on here but didn't understand enough to make it happen at 3AM.

    The reason I need to find the pixel value at the touch point is the "world" image is a fullscreen image that is a zOrder higher than color squares. The ocean on the world image is blue which covers the color squares behind and the continents are transparent part of world image. The color squares are just a 1px white image that I scale at creation time and then change the color during gametime. What I wanted to do was detect which squares were untouchable due to being behind the blue and eliminate them from the equation. If anyone can shed some light on getting the pixel value at a point on an image, I would be grateful as I hate leaving things incomplete. I can't do anything now anyway, but it would be fix it up later.

    This was totally from scratch with no prior code or ideas used - and I haven't been actively coding for about 6 months. That's the power of cocos2d. I used version 0.99.5. I can post the source code if anyone wants it. This was a fun exercise. I wanted to do it so people would realize cocos2d is a great game engine.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    riq
    Key Master

    Our Game Jam entry:
    http://gamejam.360idev.com/amused-to-death/

    We spent about:
    -2 hours discussing the game.
    - 4.5 hours of coding / graphics / sound / music
    -1 hour sleeping
    - 4.5 hours of zombie coding / graphics / bug fixing

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    abitofcode
    Moderator

    Is there a similar event running anywhere else in the near future? I could do with a jumpstart back into game development.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    rolando
    Moderator

    @abitofcode we could organize a cocos2d only game jam :-)
    hopefully during the day, or a Saturday

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    abitofcode
    Moderator

    @rolando Great idea! A Saturday would give more people a chance to take part and there's enough cocos2d users now to give a reasonable turnout.

    Maybe we should start a new thread :D

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Benihana
    Member

    I'm in for a weekend game jam. Perhaps 24 hours so everyone has equal time regardless of time zone?

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    abitofcode
    Moderator

    Earliest I can do is December, though we should probably allow plenty of time rather than rush it and have it flop.

    Not sure how far off version 1.0 we are but it'd be a good way to celebrate and promote at the same time :D

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    pfg2009
    Member

    I can't believe I missed this! What a cool idea. I'd totally be game for the next one, especially if it's specific to the Cocos2d community. Let me know if something like this ends up happening. I'll definitely keep an eye out for it.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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