cocos2d for iPhone

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

1. 

   coolman
   Member

   I can't hold with Apple guys, I submitted Jun 15th, rejected, done a quick fix and submitted the same day, and I'm still waiting for approval.

   Anyhow, I expect very soon Apple will approve:

   An in-game video:

   Get the Video Player

   And more info here:

   http://www.pr2studio.com/georain

   Come on Apple .. approve it .. :)

   Posted 2 years ago #
2. 

   Acceleroto
   Member

   Good luck! (with both Apple & the rest of the world!) It looks great - I really like your background choices. Hubble photos?

   I included a photo of the Orion Nebula that I took in my next game. Space rules! ;)

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. 

   coolman
   Member

   Thanks.

   They are for NASA/JPL Caltech site. Yeah space rules ;))

   Posted 2 years ago #
4. 

   Codemattic
   Moderator

   Good luck in the AppStore! What was the reason for the rejection?

   Posted 2 years ago #
5. 

   coolman
   Member

   Thanks Codemattic,

   Rejection was due to this things:

   - Putting the price in the AppStore text. I changed to 50% OFF
   - Having an option that ask for vibration. Apple told me that I must detect the hardware model or remove vibration. I went for the fastest and removed vibration by now ;)

   Acceleroto the backgrud pics came from

   http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

   Posted 2 years ago #
6. 

   ob1
   Member

   Not my kind of game, but it looks very nice. Congratulations.

   Posted 2 years ago #
7. 

   jptsetung
   Member

   It looks fun and it's very polished. Nice to have a different background for each level.
   You've set an online score system on your own server ?

   Posted 2 years ago #
8. 

   coolman
   Member

   Hi JPS, thanks.

   Well I'm not a graphic designer and I think the graphics are the weakest part of GeoRain.

   As for the scores I use this

   - For the normal mode. Scoreloop. That also gives you buddies, challenges and scores
   - for the time attack. Cocoslive, but I'll move this to Scoreloop

   Posted 2 years ago #
9. 

   coolman
   Member

   Many people says that X game is similar to Y in concept, or that is based in another, and so.

   Do you find any game similar to GeoRain?? (it was not based in no one game, just pulled from my head)

   Posted 2 years ago #
10. 

    Codemattic
    Moderator

    No - it looks very original! Of course that can work against you if the prospective customer cant understand the gameplay from the screenshots. But very original game design - and makes good use of iPhone touch. Did you use Chipmunk for the physics?

    Posted 2 years ago #
11. 

    coolman
    Member

    Thanks Codemattic,

    Yes, I must explain indepth how one must play and make more real videos. And yes, I used Chipmunk for the physics, and what drived me nuts was the collision removing thing.

    Posted 2 years ago #
12. 

    coolman
    Member

    Ah ... the hands in the video that's not me. I play this better .. LOL

    Posted 2 years ago #
13. 

    coolman
    Member

    Just received:

    Your application, is requiring unexpected additional time for review. We apologize for the delay, and will update you with further status as soon as we are able.

    Ouch! That hurts

    Posted 2 years ago #
14. 

    Codemattic
    Moderator

    Think coolman, is there anything in it that could give them pause? Did you use an iphone-like icon? Do you access the internet wo telling the user first? Mention anything to do with price? At any point does the player have to shake a baby for extra points?

    The opaqueness of the process is maddening.

    Posted 2 years ago #
15. 

    coolman
    Member

    >Did you use an iphone-like icon?

    No

    >Do you access the internet wo telling the user first?

    Well it must be this. I have an option "Ask internet" and I'm only asking this in one of my two game modes, in the other I don't ask nothing.

    >Mention anything to do with price?

    Done previously and fixed

    >At any point does the player have to shake a baby for extra points?

    Hecks no. :-)

    mm thinking .. I rated the game PG4, but when you click a bad Geo it seems like an alien ,,, you get a red explosion. Could this be assimilated as blood and not suitable for childrens?

    I getting mad with this . LOL

    Posted 2 years ago #
16. 

    patrickC
    Member

    Nice game!
    Too bad for a second rejection, hopefully it'll get approved soon.
    keep us updated dude, we need to learn from each other's mistakes!
    thanks
    Patrick

    Posted 2 years ago #
17. 

    Codemattic
    Moderator

    coolman, the biggest frustration is that if they just told you what it was that was giving them pause you could change it! Anyway, hope they put you through quickly man!

    Posted 2 years ago #
18. 

    coolman
    Member

    Can be this?

    I put an anticrak in GeoRain, and when itself it's detected as cracked I convert it on the fly to a lite version with just three levels and ads

    I would surprised if that was the cause.

    Posted 2 years ago #
19. 

    Joao Caxaria
    Member

    How do you do that detection?

    Posted 2 years ago #
20. 

    coolman
    Member

    There are some things that could be checked, but this it's a start point

    http://idevkit.com/forums/tutorials-code-samples-sdk/959-iphone-anti-piracy-snippet.html

    Anyhow you musn't ask directly by the string, you must scramble that.

    I'm not for sharing or discussing that techniques in open public. It would great to have a private forum for this and related (anticheat)

    Send me an email to my mail account and I will give you more info. My mail can be sawn at http://www.pr2studio.com/about

    Posted 2 years ago #
21. 

    ob1
    Member

    While the snippet is interesting, all the asumptions the guy makes about the difficulty to break his protections are at best imaginary.

    Check this tutorial for some interesting stuff:

    http://arteam.accessroot.com/arteam/site/download.php?view.308

    Posted 2 years ago #

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