cocos2d for iPhone

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   Juntaou
   Member

   Sorry if this has already been asked, I'm sure it has been asked before I just couldn't find it(I did at least try searching though :P). I am working on a puzzle game right now and currently have the game set up using about 10 scenes.
   1) Main Menu
   A) Play
   A1) Level Group 1
   A2) Level Group 2
   A3) Level Group 3
   A4) Level Group 4
   A5) Level Group 5
   B) Options
   C) Instructions
   (Those are all different scenes.)
   Each level group scene has 15 levels, which when selected stores the level needed to be loaded into a global variable. Then the GameScene level loads and loads the correct level.

   It seems to work well enough, but I wasnt sure if there is a better way to do this. Or what if I decided to have 100 level groups, is 100 scenes too many? Should any of my scenes really just be layers? I guess I will find out within the next couple of weeks how well it works, but I was hoping to get some insight from people who have some experience with it. Thanks for the help.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   LongJohnnyE
   Member

   Different game will require different designs, but for StickWars I just created a mainmenu scene, pushed settings and help scenes if necessary, and when a game actually started i would replacescene to a single large gamescene which loaded the parameters based on the current level. Even for the 'cutscene' between two levels, I went ahead and used replacescene since after the level ends, there is no need to go back to the previous level scene.

   I most definitely did not create a different scene for each level, as that would have worked terribly for my game which has 'unlimited' levels :).

   In general, you only want to 'push' a scene when it is highly likely you will often want to revert back to the current scene without losing (or having to reload) state. So you could use it for pause, help, options, and other 'popup' screens, but you dont want to push new level scenes on top of the old ones if it's not possible in your game to go backwards in levels.

   Quick disclaimer though, I'm no expert on the matter, but this is what I found in making my (one) game,

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Juntaou
   Member

   Thanks for the tip I figured it would be as much. I also think I will try to bring the game down from 10 scenes to 5 or 6, shouldn't be too hard to combine them all.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   bsharp42
   Member

   For performance wise, would it be better to do what Stickwars did, which is replaceScene after each level with a new GameScene with new parameters, or

   Just have a single GameScene loaded with a function called

   -(void) loadLevel : (int) level
   {
   // loads level
   // spawns enemies and all that jazz
   }

   and just push a "cutScene" after each level, and when the user pops the CutScene, load the next level via loadLevel...

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   bsharp42
   Member

   or would there be not much a different between the two ?

   Posted 2 years ago #

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