cocos2d for iPhone

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

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   itlgames
   Key Master

   As most of you already know, we created the cocos2d games tab a few weeks ago, it's growing pretty fast, so I would like to everyone to know all other features we have, cos I am not sure they are too obvious (I'm working on it):

   http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/games

   1) When you created the game, you had the option to add your forum username, if you did so, then you can log in with your same details here:

   http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/games/cms

   There you will be able to refresh the iTunes info, and add more details, like version of cocos2d used (I would like everyone to fill this if possible), and also you can add youtube videos, and review links.

   2) You can also change/refine the categories, I have seen some games in wrong categories, I understand we don't have all categories you may wish, but if you contact me and we think is ok, we can add any more categories on request. I have seen for example the game WordFactory under arcade. Would be nice if people could review their categories.

   3) If you failed to add your username when adding the game, you can update your record, just go again to the add page section and be sure you do this time, you will be also updating the rest of the information:

   http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/games/add/

   4) Last, we are working on a simple cross-promotion network exclusive for cocos2d games:

   http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/games/network?id=356286001

   Just replacing the 356286001 with your game code, will display a random list of games on same categories. The idea is to use this HTML on a UIWebView, for example, but I will also work on a XML solution so you can personalize and integrate as you wish.

   Any feedback appreciated.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   cublah
   Member

   Can you put an Entertainment section, not every project is a game.

   Posted 2 years ago #
3. 

   itlgames
   Key Master

   Entertainment is very generic, it could mean anything and it means nothing, we want to be a bit more specific, something that defines your game/application, and if possible away for the iTunes categories. We already have non games related categories, like Artistic, Books and Photography, that's the kind of categories we are looking for.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   cublah
   Member

   ok..but I have an App that was featured by Apple last December and it doesn't fit any of the categories.

   http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/christmas-fire/id297374413?mt=8

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   itlgames
   Key Master

   You could perfectly say your app belongs to Music, for example. We just don't think Entertainment is a very descriptive adjective for any game/application.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   sabshire
   Member

   Great idea... I'll add a "Find other games" type button on my game's menu..

   Thanks!

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Kitsune
   Member

   Just some suggestions.

   I think it makes more sense if we rename the categories after the App Store Categories so there's a little more consistency with what potential users see here and what they see on the App Store. Some of these aren't really classifiable as actual game genres/categories such as "Flying Hero" or "Doodle" or "Zombies". Its better if we name the categories to the norm/appstore categories (i.e. Action,Adventure,Role Playing etc.)

   Also I agree with @cublah about adding an "Entertainment" category as well.

   "Entertainment" is an actual category in the app store. Some people look for Entertainment apps specifically. It may sound "vague" or "generic", but it is an actual category which regular iphone users recognize in the appstore... because again, I think the categorization should mimic how your apps/games are categorized in the appstore... not with "Zombie" or "Doodle" or "Flying Hero". You have categories labelled "Artistic" and "Retro" which could mean anything really. So why not an "Entertainment" category?

   Now if you really want to specify your game with specific words such as "Doodle" or be visible after running a search for the keyword "Doodle", maybe we can have a tagging feature on top of categories. (edit: I just realized there is no search feature)

   If you disagree with these it's fine but please add a "Role Playing" and "Adventure" category. I have a few games out that don't fit any of the categories and I'm pretty sure "Role Playing" and "Adventure" are pretty common categories.

   Thanks for all the efforts! I know you guys do this on your free time and you have no obligation whatsoever in complying with my suggestions but what the hey, just my 2 cents. ;)

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   Benihana
   Member

   I'm not a big fan of the app store categories, but I do agree with matching them here. It would be great to have drill down categories (like side-scroller or matching) if that's possible. I really hate seeing those mob wars style games under RPG, so I'd love to filter them out, but that's not an option.

   Posted 2 years ago #
9. 

   itlgames
   Key Master

   Thanks for feedback guys, yes, we do this on our free time and with no monetary interest whatsoever, but we like your input, we have added most of these categories under request of you guys, but we need to keep the list not too long and sorted.

   So let's call them tags, or keywords, but not categories. We like things like "Adventure" and "Role Playing", that's why we were asking, I added them already. But "Entertainment" is still something too generic really. "Artistic" and "Retro" are more descriptive than "Entertainment", if I say my game is "Retro", you would instantly know or expect my game will have this retro-style look (and sorry but if you are in gaming you must know what retro is, and after all cocos2d is mainly used in games), and "Artistic" could mean like a painting application, they really are more descriptive. But "Entertainment", really, all games are "Entertainment".

   Let's keep the word "category" out of this then, will rename the site as I see it's confusing people. Think of these tags as an additional way to describe your game/app. The original idea, which we discussed time ago in the forums, was to create a set of descriptive words we could use to link our games, we can also select more than one category, sorry, tag, so you could say your game is "Retro", "Plaformer" and "Puzzle", you see my point? is not really categories if you like, it's adding more detailed info.

   So that's why when we select the related games we get the list of games we get, so with these tags we can create our own network of games for cross-promotion.

   Posted 2 years ago #
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    cublah
    Member

    But isn't something like Puzzle fairly generic? There are lots of different types of Puzzles genres, Entertainment is not really associated with games, yes they are entertaining. You suggested I put my app in Music but that doesn't really fit either, Entertainment may be a bit generic but you need a category that some Apps don't fit into and Entertainment suits the purpose, otherwise you will have to keep adding all sorts of sub categories.

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    itlgames
    Key Master

    @cublah, Puzzle defines the style of a type of games, you may thing is generic, but that is why is good to add some more tags, like Platformer, or Arcade, or Retro... anyway, 3 posts just asking for that category plus @Kitsune also asking, I suppose is worth to be added, so is done now. I'm not here to fight or alienate people, but we need to keep some sort of discipline/management otherwise we could end with and endless list of tags.

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    cublah
    Member

    Thank you, I'm sorry if you thought I was trying to alienate you that wasn't my intention.

    Posted 2 years ago #
13. 

    itlgames
    Key Master

    It's cool, hope we can cover everyone needs now, if someone still think we are missing some good categories please let me know.

    Posted 2 years ago #
14. 

    VTX
    Member

    I added Push Panic with my name: VTX, but I cannot log into the CMS?

    Posted 2 years ago #
15. 

    jittiang
    Member

    Everyone help!!

    I added my game King&Scum successful and url is "http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/games/game/king&amp-scum/409888448". After that I use this url but it show blank page.

    I thik correct url is "http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/games/game/king-scum/409888448".

    How Should I Do?

    ** sorry about my english language

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    itlgames
    Key Master

    @jittiang, yeah, we were not expecting the &amp on the url, will prepare an update fix and send to Riq.

    @VTX, did you finally manage to get into the CMS? If not PM again and we will try to sort it out. I believe is something to do with the case of your username

    Posted 2 years ago #
17. 

    itlgames
    Key Master

    The game "What are you eating?" is also giving issues, cos the "?", so will also fix.

    Posted 2 years ago #
18. 

    alex_c
    Member

    I'm trying to add my game to the list, but I get this error:

    Warning: fopen(images/396023651/screenshot_1.png) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/cocos2d/games/scraper/iTunesAppDetails.inc on line 249
    An error occured: Failed to open url: http://a1.phobos.apple.com/us/r1000/037/Purple/0f/fc/63/mzl.raetlmqq.480x480-75.jpg

    Application ID is 396023651.

    Is it just me?

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    antoine anim
    Member

    same here! got same error as alex_c

    Posted 2 years ago #
20. 

    itlgames
    Key Master

    Seems like something is broken, as all you guys are getting same error, will check with Riq.

    Posted 2 years ago #
21. 

    itlgames
    Key Master

    Ok, bug fixed, you can now add the games. I also added support for the ? and & characters on the game name, let me know if any further problems.

    Posted 2 years ago #
22. 

    antoine anim
    Member

    yeah!!!! it works! even with & character i have on my game

    thanks itlgames!

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    mattg8000
    Member

    Hi Itigames

    I just tried adding an app to the Games section and got the following error:

    Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /var/www/cocos2d/games/scraper/iTunesAppDetails.inc on line 193 Notice: Undefined variable: INVALID_APP_ID in /var/www/cocos2d/games/scraper/iTunesAppDetails.inc on line 453 An error occured: Cannot match a valid URL to get information from.

    Could it be because the app is only listed in the UK store?

    The app id is: 413913783

    It's part of a large UK Charity (Comic Relief) promotion for the Red Nose Day. Most of the app is standard UIKit but there is a "Pick-A-Nose" game written in cocos2d.

    Comic Relief & Apple are supposed to be marketing the app heavily in the following few days so thought it would be a good app to add to your list.

    Let me know if there is anything I can do to help get it added to your list.

    All the best

    Matt

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    mattg8000
    Member

    Hi again,

    I thought I'd try via the CMS system (http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/games/cms/games) - there appears to be a problem in the left menu section:

    Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in /var/www/cocos2d/games/templates/cms/subnav.inc.php on line 69 Deprecated: Function split() is deprecated in /var/www/cocos2d/games/templates/cms/subnav.inc.php on line 69

    Just to let you know..

    Matt

    Posted 2 years ago #
25. 

    itlgames
    Key Master

    @mattg8000, the games section won't work for Mac apps yet, was done only for iPhone/iPad. I am not sure if we can include Mac games really, will need to investigate, but the way it works, we scrap the iTunes website directly to extract the data, and the Mac Store works differently I believe.

    Will check the CMS error in a bit, it's a deprecated function, so apart from the annoying message, everything else should work, but thanks for let me know.

    EDIT: CMS error fixed.

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    mattg8000
    Member

    @itigames - thanks for the update.

    Just one thing, it's not a Mac App it's an iPhone app.

    I'm not sure why it's not showing up on the iTunes website. It's in the UK App Store but when following the worked out link as usual, instead of seeing the app on the website it just redirects & opens iTunes.

    Worked out link: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=413913783&mt=8

    Posted 2 years ago #
27. 

    itlgames
    Key Master

    Give it a try again in a few days and if not let me know and will take a look.

    Posted 2 years ago #
28. 

    kickflip720
    Member

    Hi

    I just tried adding an app to the Games section and got the following error:

    Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /var/www/cocos2d/games/scraper/iTunesAppDetails.inc on line 223 Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /var/www/cocos2d/games/scraper/iTunesAppDetails.inc on line 223 An error occured: Application information retrieval failed during screenshot parsing: 428765023

    I also get a similar message for my other game.

    Is this just me or is everyone getting the same error?

    Cheers
    kickflip720

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    itlgames
    Key Master

    I will take a look, can you send me the itunes link of both games? I think someone else also had same problem so it may be the case Apple has changed something on their side so the scrapper code is failing.

    Posted 2 years ago #
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    kastrum
    Member

    Hi, I just tried to add my game, and I got the following message:

    Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /var/www/cocos2d/games/scraper/iTunesAppDetails.inc on line 223 Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in /var/www/cocos2d/games/scraper/iTunesAppDetails.inc on line 223 An error occured: Application information retrieval failed during screenshot parsing: 423402946

    It's the same message others have been getting. Below is my itunes link:

    http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/match-4-rainbow/id423402946?mt=8&uo=4

    Thanks,
    Michael

    Posted 2 years ago #

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