cocos2d for iPhone

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   dolor
   Member

   Though it's not a game, it has been created with Cocos2d so i thought it'd be appropriate to post it here.

   Boreas was created from the philosophy that the weather shouldn’t be expressed in just numbers. In most forecast sources, the weather is displayed through data as if it were generated by machines. However, the weather as we experience it is not generated by machines but by nature. Boreas aims to visualize tomorrow’s conditions the way they will be visible in the outside world. We do this through our most discernible feature: a continuous weather animation. Besides the more obvious stuff like rain, clouds and snow, it also shows the sun rise and set, the phases of the moon and a background that changes by the season. All of this is dynamically rendered using the graphics engine Cocos2D. Boreas gets its data from World Weather Online (worldweatheronline.com). Boreas can be found in the App Store right here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/boreas/id476286608?l=en&ls=1&mt=8.

   
   

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   We have also recently founded a company under which we are distributing Boreas: Hephaestus. The name Hephaestus comes from the Roman god of technology and craftsmen. You can find us at http://www.hephaest.us, where you can find more information about us and Boreas.

   I hope you guys like it. I'm still having some issues with the new devices, but that should be fixed soon.

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   renderplace
   Member

   Congrats! Just bought it. I really like the general visual style, and the weather animation for selected day is just superb - unique.

   The only concern I have is that it seems a bit too much buggy. On my 3GS I got a lot of crash reports ( if you need them let me know, I can PM them ). Don't know if that's coincident, but I had to turn the location ON to get it running at all.

   Too bad you haven't fixed all the major bugs before releasing the app. It sure has a lot of potential, good luck on the store!

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   dolor
   Member

   Thanks a bunch! I'd love to have the crash reports.

   But did you have your location services turned off? That might explain why people are crashing so much... Another problem was me blocking the main thread while waiting for location permission on first startup; Somehow, in my debugversion it asked for permission before blocking, but the release version blocked before it could ask. I'm working really, really hard to fix it all now though. They were some problems that didn't show up debugging on my device but only if i run the release version without xcode.

   I knew there were a couple of other bugs, but we thought most were not that serious. One of the first things on the list is to get the app working without providing your location; at the moment that would cost a lot of rewriting parts.

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   renderplace
   Member

   Yes, I had my location service turned off. After I couldn't start the app, I remembered from description that the app is actually using it, so I gave it a try ... then it worked, but on another try I also got a crash, so maybe not directly related... Will send you crash reports in a minute.

   Hope you'll fix it soon, might really be anoying for someone else ;)

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   dolor
   Member

   Awesome, thanks for the reports! An update which addresses problems specific for the new GPU devices (iPad 2, iPhone 4S) has just entered 'in review' status, and i almost finished the update that should fix mos tof the other crashes occurring. I am seriously wondering how it got past Apple now though...

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   laserlars
   Member

   Wanted to check it out since im working on my own weatherapp using cocos2d. (Don't worry, it's a local weatherdatabase for my country only:))

   It loads the splashscreen then freezes, and quits after 10 seconds.
   My locationservice is on, but the app never asks me for permission to use it.

   iP4 iOS 5.0

   Edit: It suddenly worked after reboot and 3 more tries :>

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   dolor
   Member

   @laserlars: Hehe, competition ;) Let's see who sells more in your country!

   Anyway, that's a known issue and the fix has been sent to Apple. Problem is, those Americans are still asleep... So will probably be later today ^^ Thanks for giving it a try and reporting the bug! :D

   Posted 6 months ago #
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   dolor
   Member

   Boreas has been updated and works relatively well now; I'm currently making a new grabber/parser and rewriting almost all of the database classes, so i hope i can make it even faster and more stable after the holidays :)

   Posted 6 months ago #

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