cocos2d for iPhone

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

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   abitofcode
   Moderator

   We're just in the process of submitting our first cocos2d based game 'Super Turbo Action Pig' to the app store. The site goes live tomorrow over at http://www.joystickgenerals.com where there are more details but in the meantime here is the trailer and some screenshots. I'll stick up some Promo codes once its up there.

   Thanks to the whole community for helping to make the learning curve and development process enjoyable. A big thanks to Riq and the contributors putting their time and effort into such a great engine and Steve for removing a lot of pain with CocosDenshion :)

   Super Turbo Action Pig is a 'Pick up and Play' endurance game with a number of features;

   * You get to fly a pig!
   * Limitless endurance gameplay.
   * Stunning 2D cartoon graphics & animation from Mike at Fully Illustrated.
   * Open Feint enabled.
   * Achievements.
   * Online leaderboards.
   * Multiple skill levels.
   * Play your own music when the in game loop finally sends you mad.

   Opening

   

   Butcher Bill!

   

   The instructions

   

   Rocket attack!

   

   There's no hiding at the top or bottom

   

   The trailer gives a better idea of the Pig in action, its pretty much impossible to fly the pig avoid the mines and take a picture at the same time :s

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Tim
   Member

   Great looking graphics and trailer. It's unusual that you're flying right to left...was there much of a decision process with respect to why you chose to do that?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   reedjsmith
   Member

   Awesome looking game, I agree on the right to left issue. Makes me feel funny looking at it.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   hactar
   Member

   Micheal Heald sure knows his stuff. Great look!

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   abitofcode
   Moderator

   Cheers!

   The direction came down to a right/left thumb thing. It seemed right to use the right thumb for thrust which then obscured the bottom corner of the screen, having the mines come on from the left meant a little more advanced warning.

   It plays quite naturally, it may be the absence of a finger on the button that's making the trailer feel a little funny. I had an initial attempt at a trailer with a pigs trotter pushing the button but fortunately Mike decided that it just looked freaky and created the trailer above :)

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   abitofcode
   Moderator

   @hactar Mike's been getting a lot of iPhone related work recently check out his portfolio at http://www.fullyillustrated.com

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   alien_ken
   Member

   Holy cow, that's the best trailer I think I've ever seen for an iPhone game. The game looks fun and the graphics are amazing. Congrats. What are you pricing it at?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Questor
   Member

   Game looks great. Really outstanding graphics.

   Nicely done!

   Regards,
   Q

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   abitofcode
   Moderator

   @alien_ken $0.99

   The website is now live http://www.joystickgenerals.com yay!

   Posted 1 year ago #
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    zombie
    Member

    Great Trailer and awesome graphics. Congratulations. I will get the game as soon as it hits the app store!

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    hactar
    Member

    @abitofcode: yeah, I know, I had chat with him back in January, unfortunately he was pretty booked out at that time (and I wouldn't have been able to afford more than a week of his time ;)), and I can see why ;)

    Good luck to the both of you, though I'm sure you wont need it, again great stuff! ;)

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    abitofcode
    Moderator

    Thanks @zombie! Looking forward to the release of ZombieSmash, really enjoyed beta testing it.

    The trailer seems to be getting positive reviews so far, just need to get through this app submission process :S

    http://nodpad.com/2010/03/05/exclusive-hands-on-preview-with-super-turbo-action-pig/

    http://touchaholics.com/main/2010/03/super-turbo-action-pig-preview/

    http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/iphone-software/when-pigs-fly-super-turbo-action-pig-hitting-the-app-store-soon-iphone-apps

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Knighty
    Member

    Nice Graphics and Trailer!

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Techy
    Member

    If you dont mind me asking, how much do you pay michael heald?

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    abitofcode
    Moderator

    @Knighty Ta v.muchos

    @techy 50% it's a partnership for these kinda games. We used to work together in one of those office things building other peoples stuff and thought it may be nice to build the kind of games we might play. We both work day jobs, effectively freelancing but Mike is experiencing a fairly busy period at the moment, I get this auto response every time I mail him about the game;

    "Hi there,

    Thanks for the email.

    There may be a 1-3 week delay in my response time as..."

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    manicaesar
    Member

    Looks really great! Congratulations!

    How long did you work on this game?

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    abitofcode
    Moderator

    @manicaesar too long ;)

    Ironically we chose this particular type of game because we thought it would be a pretty quick build.

    We started in June last year, it's been a fit around the kids and in the evening kinda thing. The initial gameplay was finished beginning of July and then we started on all the other bits Intros, preloading, sound, resume etc. I was fortunate enough to be at Flash on the Beach 2009 in Brighton last September where I saw Keith Peters presentation as I was starting to question my sanity.

    "ARCHITECTURE FOR CASUAL GAMES - How to finish coding a game without despising it."

    http://www.bit-101.com/blog/?p=2402

    Ever since then its been implement a bit, learn a bit, build a bit more, learn more, chuck a big lump then rinse and repeat.

    I've tried lots of variations within cocos2d 0.82, I think the biggest regret was not having initially gone with sprites. It seems everyone who used sprites got this magic speed increase when they moved over to spritemaps, I felt a little hollow having started with spritemaps. Also took a detour during the process to try and speed up the whole spritemap building process and then I found Zwopple (that was a happy day).

    The next game shouldn't take a fraction of the time this one took but thats the beauty of the learning curve. I have an early prototype of the pig game from last year somewhere I may stick up sometime in the future.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    asinesio
    Member

    This game looks brilliant. Excellent into movie, excellent graphics, and Canabalt-simple gameplay. It's perfect for iPhone.

    I'm totally buying it when it hits the app store. :)

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Techy
    Member

    how did you randomly place the items... I need to make some clouds that scroll slowly on my menu scene

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    ddeaco
    Member

    Just want to congratulate you on a great looking game, the trailer looks ace.

    cant wait to see it up on the app store :D

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    abitofcode
    Moderator

    @Andy Thanks for the comments

    @Techy Hope this helped http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/4865

    @ddeaco Cheers, Looking forward to it hitting the store too! Paranoia's kicking in that its going to get rejected for something I've forgotten. Next time I'll submit after the weekend :)

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    jerrodputman
    Member

    Game looks awesome!

    Any tips on making a trailer that looks even half as good as that one?

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    abitofcode
    Moderator

    @jerrodputman I find producing a really bad trailer with a pigs trotter at the control and then sending it to Mike (fullyillustrated.com) as a suggestion has the desired effect ;) I'll stick a link up to it sometime. How he manages to pull the stuff together at the level of quality and in the amount of time is still somewhat of a mystery to me.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    jerrodputman
    Member

    @abitofcode: Ha, nice! Looking forward to grabbing the game once it gets through the Apple gatekeepers.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    renderplace
    Member

    wow, looks like a Doodle killer - Congratulations!

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    PhilM
    Member

    Love Mikes work. Trailer looks great, as does the game! Wish you all the best with it ;)
    Hope it makes it through approval very soon!

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    abitofcode
    Moderator

    It seems that Mike can't sit still while we wait for apple to review the game!

    Get your free pig here;

    http://joystickgenerals.com/news/free-super-turbo-action-pig/

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    pfg2009
    Member

    Nicely done both on the game front as well as on the promoting front! Looks really sweet - best of luck to you guys!

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    Tim
    Member

    LOL, Nice...am going to dump to photo printer as I bet it'll look nice. Kids should get a kick out of it.

    Posted 1 year ago #
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    invulse
    Member

    Best game name ever...

    Posted 1 year ago #

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