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bouncer80
Member
Hi all,
First preview of our upcoming SuperHero action game is out. Thanks for Ricardo on wonderful work on cocos2d. It was a great base to build on.
Website is live at http://www.traplightgames.com.
Thanks for this community also. Found lot's of great info on these forums.
wow, incredible video!
The game looks awesome too. congratulations!
eshirt
Member
The game looks great! I love the art direction and the gameplay looks fast-paced and fun!
That being said, (I'm swear I'm not trying to be a debbie-downer here) I was playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance the other day and noticed in the opening credits that they indicated "Super Hero[s]" is a registered trademark.
It's discussed a bit here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_hero#Trademark_status
In this atmosphere of ridiculous and arbitrary Apple rejections, I'd hate to see yours get held up for something like that. It's worth looking into if you haven't already.
I wish you luck and I can't wait to play it!
I remember seeing your initial video on the game months ago and it looked like it had potential. It looks like you met that potential in the finished product. I'm glad you didn't rush it out the door because it looks like the time you put into it to publish a quality product is going to resonate with players. Can't wait to play.
neobamboom
Member
The more and more games I see being produced with cocos2d make me feel that this is the best 2d engine-esque for the iphone out there. I honestly don't even know where to begin. :(
For titles when it comes to superhero games- you can usually name it the name of the hero itself- or attach an attribute to the title... er- 'The Radiating Adventures of Radioactive Man.'
eshirt
Member
bouncer80 - yeah, I was a bit shocked, too. I was playing my PS3 and chuckled a bit because found it funny that someone owned the word - since it's so commonly used. Then I happened to see your post and it triggered my memory. Sure enough, if Wikipedia is to be believed, it's trademarked - although it seems that it's not a very well established one.
You may not have to change the name at all, but if you're not too far along, it might be a good idea to think of some alternatives just in case.
I like neobamboom's idea of naming your "super hero" and using that as the title. Good luck!
bouncer80
Member
shaunti: I basicly use cocos for scene management and for the texture classes (loading and basic quad handling). I wrote all the other stuff myself. Sprite engine, font engine etc... mainly because of the speed. I needed to minimize all overdraw, which easily kills framerate on iphone. Especially when you have a background with a lot of parallax stuff. You want to build geometry on the fly and only draw stuff that can be seen.
Cool. Thanks for the reply. Please let us know how the downloads go.
I'll be wrapping my current game up in a few weeks and will post a new thread here on it. But another game I started will have a very wide scene that need's to scroll rather quickly back and forth at times. When testing the cocos parallax scroller I wanted a 4 layer type of effect that was a little too much it seemed.
Yours looked nice and smooth over a large area.
looks amazing! Really nice trailer. If it hadn't been for the computer style voice, I'd have guessed it was made by one of the big studios!
Graphics look great, especially the parallax (as others have mentioned).
Are you using pngs or pvrs for most of it? Your texture memory must be pretty high if its pngs, even with the minimized overdraw & tweaks you mention?
Have you got any other tips/hints on how to render large backgrounds like that? Thats currently my biggest bottle neck in my main project. 4-5 layers of parallax on a level 2x the width & height of the screen eats up nearly 25-30fps.
Looking forward to your release, good luck with it!
congrats on the touch arcade post ; )
http://toucharcade.com/2009/11/12/so-you-want-to-be-a-superhero/
Just bought it, excellent! Congrats!
bouncer80
Member
It's finally out, as MrMojo already noticed!
Thanks for all the people behind cocos2d! It was really easy to start developing for iphone with it.
The game took quite a long time to finish, but we finally made it!
Now I'm just hoping it sells something so I can make a next game maybe in a bit shorter time :D
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