Who else is/has used Sapus Tongue as a base for their project?

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Who else is/has used Sapus Tongue as a base for their project?

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Started 2 years ago by Salty Piers
Latest reply from bradparks

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Salty Piers
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I have been using it for my game, and buying the source was
DEFINITELY
100%
WORTH IT.

I am curious what other people's impressions/experiences with it are.

I would recommend buying the source to anyone who is serious about making a game using cocos2d for iPhone, especially newbies like myself. I had never touched Obj-C before this (student with a few years of C++ experience, some Java) and in less than a month I have put together a nice little game that should be finished soon (programming wise it is 90% finished, still waiting on art/audio).

Let me put it this way: it took riq (someone who actually knows what he is doing) 2-3 months to put Sapus Tongue together. I don't even want to imagine how long it would take me or some other clueless person to do that same work on their own. I also don't know why anyone would spend 1-3 months figuring out how to do something they could pay a couple hundred bucks to have done instantly. If you are a professional and you could do all the basic stuff (physics, audio, scores, menus, buttons, etc.) yourself in a week or two, your time should be worth more than the amount the source costs.

Hopefully if you were on the fence about purchasing the code this will encourage you to bite the bullet/dive in headfirst with your project. My game is going to be way better/full featured than if I had tried to do it all myself, assuming that I eventually could have figured it all out on my own (which I doubt).

Daniel Piers
http://www.saltypiers.com

Posted 2 years ago #
jonathan0382
Member

I considered buying the source, and probably will to support riq when my game goes live. But...

"I also don't know why anyone would spend 1-3 months figuring out how to do something they could pay a couple hundred bucks to have done instantly"

... for me half the fun is learning and seeing the results of my work, not just taking somebody else's and changing it (though I've no problem with anyone doing this if that's what floats your boat). I'm not in this for the money :D

Just my $0.02

Posted 2 years ago #
sunsu
Member

I purchased the code a while back as well. It was a great learning tool for me and I highly recommend it. Definitely worth the money.

Posted 2 years ago #
LongJohnnyE
Member

I put my vote in to supporting riq :).

Posted 2 years ago #
marcotronic
Member

Hi,
I, too, purchased the code a while back. I haven´t done too much with cocos2D and the sapus tongue sources yet as I had to do a lot of other stuff and originally I wanted to wait until cocos2D 1.0 is available - so that I have a solid foundation and can concentrate on that version (I´ve been trying to get the hang of it since version 0.5.x and still haven´t got it since there are so many changes with each version and I´ve only had very little time to delve into it yet. (And when you try to get into it once a month or so and there are permanent changes it´s really quite hard - but of course the changes are necessary ;-) It´s a framework heavily in progress - and this is great!

But from what I have learned from the sapus tongue sources so far - they are great and worth every buck. I highly recommend them to anybody who wants to save a lot of time when developing a game with cocos2D. Documented very well with lots of tips - an invaluable resource!

Marco

Posted 2 years ago #
AlienInvader
Member

Would be great if there was a bit of a preview of what exactly you would be buying.

I am not saying release entire source files, but just listing the features you get is not enough for me. I want to see a small snippet so that I can judge for my self
whether or not I will be learning to use cocos2d-iPhone quicker or not.

PS. I have been programming games in C/C++ on consoles like Xbox, 360, PS2+3, Nintendo DS for years but is a total noob to Mac/ObjC/iPhone. I grabbed a copy of cocos2d-iphone and run through the examples and was amazed at how quickly I could get an animated sprite on my iPhone with this excellent framework. Great job riq!

Posted 2 years ago #
jd
Member

If I could do it over again, I would have purchased it at the beginning of my development but I was trying to keep my costs down. When I was 70% done with my game I bought it. I can't say I drastically changed my code from it but if I had it at the beginning it would have given me a proper, solid understanding of how to design and execute my game. If you plan to use cocoslive, it's a huge timesaver as well. My game was too different to bother rewriting at the point I bought it. There are also some undocumented things riq does in there and usually a comment about why. I planned to donate to cocos2d either way, so buying the source code helped both efforts.

Posted 2 years ago #
bradparks
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I think buying the source is a great idea, and I hope to be able to afford to do so soon! As an aside, I just spent 10 minutes trying to find it on the cocos site, and had to go to sample games, then and found it at the bottom of that page... I think it'd be a great thing to add directly to the "Readme First" post that's stuck to the tops of the forums. I wouldn't be surprised if alot of people don't even know the option exists to buy the source, and why they should consider it!

http://www.sapusmedia.com/sources.html

Posted 2 years ago #

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