cocos2d for iPhone

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   meboz
   Member

   Hi All,

   Id like to start my game, with the initial game play layout as the background, with a buttons layer over the top with maybe 'Tap to start' and a high score etc.

   and similarly, when the game finishes, id like to just 'pause' the final game play layout and overlay a game over menu of sorts.

   I tried calling [[CCDirector sharedDirector] pause] as the last line of the appDidFinishLaunching which didnt seem to have any effect.

   Is there a better way trying to do this? I dont really like my initial approach.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   slycrel
   Member

   The way I've considered doing this is recording a movie of my gameplay and then playing the movie in the background. If you do get the other method to work I'd be interested in hearing about it.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   meboz
   Member

   Yeah my current implementation has a background image of a screenshot of the game in play.

   What im aiming for is to have the game initialized ready to go (is starts slightly different each time) and when a user clicks 'Play', the menu disappears and they start playing.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   pabloruiz55
   Member

   i don't understand what keeps you from doing that. i don't know what kind of game it is. but suppose it is a pong game.
   When it starts, init the stuff and put 2 ai playing. and a layer with a menu. when pressing the button, game resets and player takes control.
   When quitting, save state.
   Pausing the director won't make your state be saved when quitting. you have to use some of the known methods for saving state.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   meboz
   Member

   @Pabloruiz55

   I dont want the game to be reset when the player clicks to take control. and I dont really care about game state. The thing that was stopping me from simply pausing the game was that the call to pause on the shareddirector in appdidfinishlaunching didnt pause.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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