A fast, easy to use, free, and community supported 2D game engine
As a thanks to all who serve this community I'd like to start posting some 'how-tos' for cocos2d on my blog. The first one is a re-usable pie timer that inherits from CCNode. I'm sure this has been done before but I'm sure someone will find this useful:
http://www.popitandrockit.com/2011/02/opengl-pie-timer-for-iphone-cocos2d.html
I hope I posted this in the right place. I didn't see a place for examples.
Well, I wrote mine first! ;)
CCProgressTimer wasn't around when I first wrote my version. Also, I think it's still worth something to see how to create your own OpenGL based node, even if the mechanics are something you can pull off in the engine already.
The android version of this is also ready now:
http://www.popitandrockit.com/2011/02/pie-timer-for-android-cocos2d.html
Are you sure you write yours first ? CCprogressTimer was created 1 year ago by @Lam http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/2612
It's still a great thing to make it yourself.
My original source is dated 2/13/10.
I guess I'm not here to say mine's better or I got there first. I really just needed it, and it wasn't in the version of Cocos I had at the time. I didn't realize someone else was working on a similar solution and it seems that the other solution is very good as well.
I did not see an Android port of that solution either in the latest Android SDK. The purpose of my blog posts is to expose the process of conversion of game components from iPhone to Android. It just so happens that a lot of my code depends on Cocos2D (because it's awesome!) and that is why it might seem like I am contending with other Cocos developers. But I assure you I am not trying to do that at all.
IMHO There's plenty of room for anyone who wants to take the time to clearly explain cocos2d and openGl. I remember the great documentation drought of 2009 ;)
in 2009, I wanted to get into cocos and IOS, but didn't have time..
I came back a year later and man, this community is full of lovely generous folks sharing blogs, and code, and games... it's all so helpful . I'll be giving back soon as well, but I'm with abitofcode, more the merrier :)
I also fully agree with you about making sure that people know that the engine supports this feature natively. I will update my posts to ensure that this is clear.
Thanks for making me aware of it as well. This engine is getting better too fast for me to even make games with it!
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