So you have some art but don’t know how to properly size it for the iPad or iPhone in their 2 versions (retina and non-retina display)! Let’s learn about image sizing and how to use these images in animations for your game objects (player, enemies, power ups or simple eye candy). Before we even get into creating animations, we need to clear up the sizing issue. Currently there are 4 screen sizes: iPhone NonRetina = 480 x320 iPhone Retina = 960 x 640 iPad NonRetina = 1024 x 768 iPad Retina = 2048 x 1536 This means that when creating art for a game, you will go bonkers sizing images… Read More
Continue ReadingCocos2d Tips: How to design a game coding strategy
Know you know quite a bit, enough to make a game. Do you know how and where to start? Let’s look at how to start coding your action layer, what code to put in what methods and how to keep your update method clean and tidy. When I started coding, and unfortunately most of my current projects are still coded that way, I simply opened up Xcode and started coding. iOS apps are a bit better because you can use the “hooks” methods they come with such as viewDidLoad and cellForRowAtIndexPath etc. Games are a bit more confusing because you are given an empty slate. At least in Cocos2d you… Read More
Continue ReadingHow to Read iOS or Mac OS Programming Documentation
The toughest part for me to get started was reading the Apple Documentation on iOS or MacOS. When I got into more APIs it got more complex. You need to understand how to read API or proprietary code documents in order to understand how to create a piece of code, connect to web services or debug changes in code. You will very often see the term DEPRECATED, which means a particular method name is no longer used. This is very important so let’s take a look at Apple Docs first: This tells us that the object of type NSArray has many methods that you can call on it. They may… Read More
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