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Greetings! I've built my first iPhone game with cocos2d and I'm planning to submit it for approval early next week. Basically, the game concept is that the ocean is being trashed by polluters and you've got to eat up all the junk. I've got a web page for it up at http://habel.net/litterfin
Here's a gameplay trailer and some screenshots...
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Thanks for a great game framework and very helpful community forum!
The f means it's a float number. Not always required, but in certain situations will resolve ambiguity, so it's safer to use the f.
You can do those bars even easier by doing a graphic that's 1 pixel wide, by however high, and adjusting scaleX from 0.0f to 480.0f (480.0f to fill the entire width)...that's exactly what I did in Alien Keeper (if you click my name on the left you can see the youtube vid of the timer in action, I think it looks good).
Hey bubba. I played the game for about 10 minutes while waiting for a friend. There is on huge issue for me - you cannot see the fish because your finger covers it. I wanted to see the fish eating the trash like in the video but the game becomes: move finger over trash - trash go bye bye. I think you should make the touch area under the fish so you can see him, which wouldn't be that hard to implement. The fish eating animation is really great but nobody can see it. Otherwise the movement, graphics and animation are very nice.
hey jd, thanks for the feedback. i'm going to think about what you suggested. the weird thing about it would be that the fish wouldn't be swimming to the exact location you touched but to a location slightly above where you touch. im not sure if that would feel weird. As it is now, it works pretty darn good if you keep your finger on the screen most of the time and sort of just move it around to guide the fish. See video below...
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Actually, I didn't read the instructions because I was in a rush. I was dragging the fish around the screen which seemed natural and the best way to get precise controls to avoid mines. I didn't even try touching points and letting the fish swim there. Sorry about that. It might be good to offer both control methods (touch or drag). And if it's drag you can keep your code which works well, but put the touch under the fish.
I'll try it again later and try the touch method.
The fish will swim to any location on the screen that a ccTouchesBegan or ccTouchesMoved event occurs. So, yes, you could hold your finger over the fish and try to drag him around but I wouldn't recommend that ;-) Also, you can double tap anywhere for a bried burst of speed. Enjoy!
@Codemattic lol, indeed
Thanks for the code!! I love the game!! The game in a whole is simple to play, intuitive, and easy to navigate the menus, which makes the game fun and addicting. If you use the double tap to make him swim you can clearly see him swim and eat trash. I think the fish's movement is good the way you have it. Also, I have three questions if you don't mind:
1. How long did this game take you to develop?
2. I love the fish's standing animation. How many frames do you have for that animation?
3. And, did you wrap the animation in a speed action to make him swim faster when moving?
Thanks again, and I will drop a review in the app store!
@enivid Thanks for your comments I'll try to answer your questions...
1. It's hard to gauge the amount of time it actually took. I have a day job and so I worked on it a little bit after work most weekdays. It probably took about 1.5 months total-time on the project but in real-time that was spread over like 4 months.
2. The fish's idle animation has 9 unique frames (although several of those are used twice in the actual animation because of the way his body moves back and forth)
3. I didn't use any actions for character animations. I manually implemented animation using the schedule mechanism and setDisplayFrame. I did this because I wanted total control.
@thomasjt Thanks! I programmed the whole game but the art was a joint effort. An animator buddy of mine drew the awesome character animations. I colored everything in the game including the character animations and items. I did some other miscellaneous things like created the mine explosion animation. I also created the background image and all the game menus (home,help,gameover screens, etc).
Litterfin Louie Update 1.3 went live today. Changes include...
- Added 6 new levels
- New "mega mine" obstacle. Mega mines blow away surrounding trash when they explode.
- Added save & resume. Games will now resume from the last level you were on unless you choose the "quit" option from the game over screen.
- Completing a level now grants bonus points based on the percent of trash you collected.
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