cocos2d for iPhone

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

1. 

   xozyain
   Member

   Try Amazing Breaker, #1 ice-smashing game at the AppStore!

   The aim of the game is to blast the ice sculptures with bombs. The trick is to destroy not just the sculpture, but also any small shards of ice left over. The acceptable minimum is 90%, but to score three stars requires a perfectly neat cleanup of every sliver of ice.

   
   
   
   

   Amazing Breaker Trailer (YouTube)

   iTunes link: Amazing Breaker ($0.99)

   FEATURES:

   + Full high resolution Retina Display graphics

   + Addictive “Aim and Shoot” Gameplay

   + Game Center & Achievements

   + 80 Awesome Levels

   + More levels coming

   + Easy to learn but hard to master

   + Explosive Excitement - create cascades of exploding crystals

   EARN MORE STARS:

   1 STAR = 90% of level cleared

   2 STARS = 95% of level cleared

   3 STARS = 100% of level cleared

   BUILD YOUR WINNING STRATEGY:

   + Spike Bomb – simply aim and shoot

   + Ghost Bomb – goes through ice, rub the screen to control it

   + Helicopter Bomb – tap to deploy violet crystals

   + Split Bomb – tap to split into 3 green explosive crystals

   iTunes link: Amazing Breaker ($0.99)

   http://www.AmazingBreaker.com

   Posted 1 year ago #
2. 

   mobilebros
   Moderator

   Wow, interesting concept; I like the graphics/animations style.

   Posted 1 year ago #
3. 

   Codemattic
   Moderator

   Really nice ice special effects. I like how they crack. Impressive.

   Posted 1 year ago #
4. 

   xozyain
   Member

   Codemattic

   its a proud for me to hear those words from _you_ :) really!
   Thnx!

   Posted 1 year ago #
5. 

   jptsetung
   Member

   Great great game. Love the style. Each level is a unique bitmap?

   Posted 1 year ago #
6. 

   xozyain
   Member

   simply 2 words: toucharcade.com review :)
   http://toucharcade.com/2011/07/01/amazing-breaker-review-ever-seen-an-ice-sculpture-and-wanted-to-bomb-it/
   

   Posted 1 year ago #
7. 

   xozyain
   Member

   jptsetung
   

   Each level is a unique bitmap?

   yes, with separated color data & transparency data. Thats why it is only 18Mb and not 60Mb as it seems to be for 80 1024*1024 transparency PNG images:)

   Thanx to riq and all cocos2d team! You made a basis for us:)

   Posted 1 year ago #
8. 

   jptsetung
   Member

   @xozyain congrats! Not sure to understand what you mean with "separated color data & transparency data" , why does it allow to save about 70% of the bitmap size?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   lws
   Member

   I got this game yesterday, really nice! It has, for some reason, no "Done" button in the Leaderboard view :o (in iOS 5). Quite peculiar, since this is supposed to be a view that should be the same for every app.

   Also, I noticed that there is some choppyness in between the levels, where it looks like the game switches between CCDirectorProjection2D and CCDirectorProjection3D and back again.

   But overall, awesome puzzler, with great atmosphere :)

   Posted 1 year ago #
10. 

    xozyain
    Member

    choppyness ??? its really surprise me. And Leaderboard View is standard GameKit View, so i dont know why it is happens in your case :( we`ll check it out!

    Thank you for congrats anyway!

    @jptsetung:
    768*768*32 PNG with transparency = 460kb (in one of examples)

    the same compressed JPG = 60kb
    + PNG with alpha information only = 15kb
    in loading time i re-create texture with color information from JPG and alpha information from PNG (because i need sharp edges).

    so: 460kb in classic mode & 75kb in "mixed" mode.

    p.s. English is not my native language, so feel free to re-asking me in cases of bad explanations:)

    Posted 1 year ago #
11. 

    lws
    Member

    @xozyain: so, you have a low bit alpha mask stored in the PNG? Maybe 2 or 4 bits? I assume that 1 bit alpha wouldn't look half as good.
    Anyway, thats a clever technique to tackle the size issue for so many textures. Great!

    Posted 1 year ago #
12. 

    Kronon
    Member

    Very nice game, I love how there's some strategy involved with the linking of various bombs. And of course, really gorgeous sprites and slick explosion effects.

    I'm a bit curious as to how you did the linking effect though. Did you just use ccDrawLine, or just a simple line sprite that you scale and rotate accordingly? Only if you feel like sharing, of course. ^^

    Posted 1 year ago #
13. 

    xozyain
    Member

    Kronon
    it's simply glDrawArrays(GL_LINES, 0, 2); inside -(void)draw{}

    Posted 1 year ago #
14. 

    lws
    Member

    What's more interesting in terms of graphics: How did you do the nice "reflecting stripe" that moves across the image every once in a while? Bonus question: How did you do the "blinking stars" that only seem to appear on the rim or on very bright spots. Are the possible blinking positions encoded, or is there some nice magic? :)

    Again, only if you like to share.

    Btw, done with all the levels. Such a joy! Gotta write a review now.

    Posted 1 year ago #
15. 

    jptsetung
    Member

    @xozyain Thx a lot for sharing the way you compressed your images. Did you try the PVR format ?

    Posted 1 year ago #
16. 

    riq
    Key Master

    Nice game!

    Posted 1 year ago #
17. 

    lws
    Member

    "Sublime Technique!" haha, I liked this :)

    Posted 1 year ago #
18. 

    max9xs
    Member

    Wonder full game...! llooks great !

    Posted 1 year ago #
19. 

    Birkemose
    Administrator

    I love the "#1 ice smashing game" ... I think I will make "#1 hit the laundry basket with your dirty sock game"

    Personally I dont think the explosions are very "icy", to me they look detached, but the ice artwork is absolutely gorgeous, and the way it breaks down is impressive. All this only judged from the video.
    If you have a spare code, I would love to give it a spin.

    Posted 1 year ago #
20. 

    xozyain
    Member

    jptsetung pvr makes "blury" edges - obviously, i need sharp edges - thaths why i cant use pvr.

    lws oooh:) its a long story about "reflecting stripe":) - 4 draw passes: shadow teture, image texture, magic stripe, and last texture is... floor! realy not trivial blendings and self-made buffers:)

    "blinking stars" - are pre-calculated positions during initial texture "assembling" whith ((point.r > 0xAA) && (point.g > 0xAA) && (point.b > 0xAA))

    Posted 1 year ago #
21. 

    xozyain
    Member

    @riq thanx!
    I'll donate you great work for sure!

    Posted 1 year ago #
22. 

    lws
    Member

    @xozyain: I'm impressed by your crazy OpenGL buffering! And the stars are made just like I thought, nice :)

    Ok, I'm back to work on my 3-star scores :D

    Posted 1 year ago #
23. 

    zombie
    Member

    I just downloaded your game. Its amazing. Finally a new game I can spend some time on. Thanks!

    I very impressed by your method to reduce the app size. Do you mind opening a new thread explaining this in more detail?

    Thomas

    Posted 1 year ago #
24. 

    xozyain
    Member

    zombie it is very simple :)
    i use perl-script to separate color data to JPG with selectable quality (in my case of color and not sharp images i can use rather low quality) and PNG with alpha - 1bit or 8 bit image.
    My CCSprite modificztion contains -()SpriteWith2Files method(filename), where i load both files (filename.jpg & _filename.png) and create new texture using great CCMutableTexture by adding aplha to color information & clipiing "garbage" JPEG data where i dont need it.

    Thats all!

    Posted 1 year ago #
25. 

    zombie
    Member

    Thx xozyain: We will try that in our upcoming title. Hopefully this will make it a bit easier to get it below 20MB.

    Posted 1 year ago #
26. 

    adamk77
    Member

    I saw your game on #25 on the top paid chart! Congratulations!

    Would you mind sharing some of your marketing and PR wisdom? It's one area that I'm still struggling with :)

    Posted 1 year ago #
27. 

    cocoBavan
    Member

    It took 4 months to this great App to reach the top. Magic of the old school step: A free version release.
    Lesson: Never give up, if you believe in your app :) Congrats xozyain and team.

    Posted 1 year ago #
28. 

    letmeknow
    Member

    wow, top already ? congratulations!!!

    I just know the free version is always in top 50 free apps for a long time, like months.

    (HouseofMice lite is also in top free apps for a long time, however... - I believe there is another hidden marketing magic which you might never know, like an article..)

    Posted 1 year ago #
29. 

    cocoBavan
    Member

    hmm... I dint know that there was a free version existed until last week. It seems, It has been there since July. Anyway, this is a novel idea. It deserves this success. I have no idea how people come up with such ideas and eventually find a way to implement it. The memory deduction technique using JPG and PNG mixed is extra ordinary.

    Posted 1 year ago #
30. 

    yadongliu
    Member

    @xozyain The space reduction trick on sprite images is awesome. Thanks for sharing.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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