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Why not releasing a game on sunday :) ? It's a beautiful sunday here in Paris.
My new game is out, it's called Mozzle. It's a motion puzzle using all the inputs of the iDevices (accelerometer, camera & microphone).
Universal binary.
I had to learn many OpenGL & sounds tricks to make this game, and this wouldn't have been possible without the cocos2d community, thx!
iTunes link http://t.co/TSkfywc
Gameplay video
Smart idea:) The bending towers looks like the game world of goo:)
Nice effects! Are those rainbow ribbons generated?
Thx.
@abitofcode, yes it's a custom class. I had done it before the new CCMotionStreak was released by @manucorporat. It's very similar. I know you've done something simular too :)
@BlueGooGames ahah yes it's actually from my first iOS game Moonlights which has a physics engine similar to World of Goo.
By the way I have promocodes left and will give them on demand (PM) , don't hesitate to ask.
On my 4.0.1 iPhone the game crashes when I hit the Gamecenter button. Should instead just do nothing or tell the player that there is no GC on this device.
There also seems to be a setup problem with the Twitter sharing.
Other than that its pure AWESOME! Many nice ideas :)
it's an iPhone 3GS. Maybe its confused, because I had developer beta versions on it, and somehow sometimes it still shows the "Welcome back, ..." popup from Gamecenter in some games (albeit, the old grayish look). But Gamecenter itself is not on the device, no Gamecenter.app, no functionality in apps. I had a bit of trouble myself to get this situation right in my game. You gotta be extra careful ;)
I second Codemattics comment about the screenshots in the store: They're missing the point. None shows a scrambled screen, no one will have a clue what the game is about from looking at them. Be quick and exchange one or two of them.
Oh, and somehow I can't write a review in iTunes, I'll try again later. Probably just a hickup.
Thx.
I've uploaded a screenshot with scrambled scene this morning but iTunes is showing only 4 screenshots now. I guess it's a bug in iTunes or I have to wait. Maybe I should erase them all and upload again my 5 screenshots, it will not hurt.
[edit] The new screenshot just appeared now. The update took a few hours to appear.
Another issue I found: when you play the game first and no music is playing already, then switch to iPod and play some music, then come back to the game, it'll stop your iPod. That's fine when BG music is enabled, but it's not, when just sound effects are enabled.
The problem goes away, when you play music first, then start the game. I suspect this is because of cocosDenshion, which checks for playing background music and decides on a audio category.
I had the same problem with the first version of Hemispheres, but luckily I have no music in it at all, just sound effects, so I went and changed cocosDenshions startup code to always set the audio category to SFX only.
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It works fine for me on 1G with 3.1.3. Amazing graphics and animation. This is very good app showing what can be done by talented programmer even on 1G!
The easy level is not so easy :)
What I would add is more easy puzzles on the "easy" levels - I straggle a lot and have to use the hint button more often than I would like :)
Nice navigation buttons! Very intuitive app. If possible I would add settings to adjust the the speed of animations. @jptsetung congratulations on great app!
no speed adjustment, please. that would take out the challenge. part of the strategy is, to wait and observe patiently and make the right moves when it became clear how the order of the parts seems to be.
speaking of which, I have to say that every now and then I can't move the part I want to drag. even trying repeatedly doesn't help. I end up doing another move or instead of dragging A to B, I drag B to A instead.
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@lws - I see nothing wrong with having such option at all!. It can be even more fun if the speed movement is increased. This is definitely more gentle approach than using brute force hint button. Hint button is for a reason for those who want to use it. And speed decrease/increase slider could also serve its purpose for many. Why not to give users more options?
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@Codematic - valid observation. Mini-screen is frequently abstracted when you make a move.
Of course, moving mini-screen up requires to move all the control buttons up. I wonder what was @jptsetung motivations to not to do it in the first place?
Alternatively the easy improvement is to move mini-screen to the very left. Than right handed people would see it all the time.
I'm glad iTunes finally let me rate the game. Blingbling :)
Meanwhile, I'm on difficulty level 3, but forced myself to stop playing for a while :p
On the iPad it just crashed after the last level of difficulty 2. Have to play that level again now. And this is not exactly my favourite ;) (The one with many circles floating around)
Btw. about the highscore: Since the iPad and older iPod touch don't have a camera, I see you just skip this level. But it also takes away some easy points (as I tend to find that level particularly easy, but quite cool).
Thx so much for the in depth feedback.
The crash is certainly due to memory leaks, I admit I didn't test with instruments.
About the menu, that makes sense to display it at the top, but I didn't even ask myself this question.
About the score you're right, if you don't have a camera, you will never be in pole position on the leaderboards. Maybe I should add an average score for the devices without the camera, but this is not very satisfying.
I just noticed a little typo: http://snapplr.com/gabz
The Lite version just got approved.
This looks awesome! Great job! How did I ever miss it?
Now, of course, I'm going to bombard you with questions. Brace yourself...
How do you split up the original image into tiles? Do you render your animation into a RenderTexture and then use it as the source texture for your tiles? If so, how about the round edges of your tiles? Do you overlay each rectangular tile with a black border that has round edges and the middle missing? I'm out to get all your secrets... :)
Nicely done!
Thx @pfg2009 :)
You're right about the animation being rendered into a CCRenderTexture.
About the rounded tiles, it's not an overlay. Actually it's a custom cocos2d object that I called CCSpriteShape, that behaves a bit like a CCSprite but that can extract custom polygons instead of the square used in CCSprite. I also added the ability to add borders with fading opacity to the shape to soften the edges.
Such an object would be cool to share but the code is really too dirty (specifically the border feature).
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