Cocos2d 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

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