cocos2d for iPhone

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

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   Sven
   Member

   HI guys and gals.
   I've got a need to allow some touch based keyboard style entry into a word game I'm working on and wondered what others have done in the past.

   The game its quiet visual and I figure I need to generate a basic layer and sprite based keyboard to allow text input (for single chars no need to edit strings etc.)

   Is there any existing cocos2d keyboard implementations floating about that I can just use a texture atlas or do I need to roll my own? I know not a particularly onerous task but I'm lazy ;)
   Maybe the Menu class could help out?

   I'm a bit surprised there isn't a basic CC one in the api but hey cant have everything.. Maybe we can make one.

   Ps: cocos2d community rocks :D

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   hm50
   Member

   I made a simple num pad using CCMenu aligned in columns and rows. Works great!

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Sven
   Member

   Cool. I had considered using CCMenu with images but of course it can just use simple text/labels too.

   I've been thinking about a custom entry method rather than just a grid of letters, of course the problem with custom is it may put players off as they know where the letters on a keyboard are so why have them different?

   Its a basic word type game where you have to fill in the missing characters so I'm considering the following..
   * Basic a-z keys in a,b,c... or q,w,er?
   * a 9key old phone style (abc) (def) (ghi) etc.
   * a custom keyboard which is a couple of circles around the entry point.
   * a custom keyboard which is gesture driven, maybe a semi-transparent loop that cuts through the block and you dial by rotating in circles.. Or up and down to cycle through the letters.

   hmm so many ideas..

   The real problem I have is I'm not utterly convinced in the gameplay on a phone. (words? whats that about!! ;) ) but its for a partner and I'd like to do a good job.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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