High five Nat!

I just bought the kit and I am glad that I did.

These are my suggestion for the kit improvement, which are generic and can make
all users happy since they are applicable for most of the games.

1. In-App purchase – universal feature for many type of apps which can sell add-on content.
User can buy new levels, new weapons, new puzzles and so on.

2. Localization and internationalization.
The world is big – an app should cover other markets! Almost 100 markets:
iPhone Country List: http://aaplinvestors.net/stats/iphone/iphoneintl/

3. Different games require different hero movements.
To make kit applicable to different types of games the kit could show many alternatives, which would cover different user needs.

Some important examples for hero movement:
– “stahlmanDesign’ movement
- Movement for hero base on tilting the device (Rolando style)
- Hero follows path drawn by user’s finger (Flight control style)
- Hero jumps from one point to the other (good for board games – moving pieces)
- Hero is dragged from one point to the other by user’s finger

4. Interaction with social sites: OpenFeint, Facebook…

From my point of view these are the most important and generic improvements, which could benefit many users.

All the best to you and all users!

Hi, I just bought your kit, im very happy using it,
my first game after I finish reading this book
1- soccer
2- also I want to make strategy games

Sounds like a fun game. Keep your end result in mind and start with the smallest tasks you can. You will get there!

Tetris, Whack-a-Mole, Memory, Space Invaders, Pacman to start. Maybe a side scroller like Mario later when I build up the experience.

In the end after I get to understand most of what i need to know, i would like to create simple platform games:)

I’ve always wanted to make an Isometric Tile based game, so when I saw the kit, I had to buy it! Best money I’ve spent in a long time. I just got my first game onto the App Store and am now going to sit down with the kit and read and code and read some more and with any luck, I’ll finally write an ISO game. Thanks Nat, the kit, book and community look great!

Hi Nat,

Here’s a link to the main website:

http://www.imbaentertainment.com/

If you click on Shadows Call on the top left you’ll get to more details.

There is an update currently awaiting approval that adds save/continue to the game, based on code you posted on the Cocos2d forum. (that’s how I found this site, from your post on the Cocos2d forum: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/737/page/2).

To be fair to all the others involved, I only coded Shadows Call, I had nothing to do with the artistic side, or the creative side. I’ll be starting work on the next chapter of the game next week.

I keep getting this error message when trying to load the pig or my own enemy character

/Quexlor/Classes/Enemies.m:339:0 /Quexlor/Classes/Enemies.m:339: warning: ‘Enemy’ may not respond to ‘-initWith:life:strength:dexterity:’

what am I doing wrong

Nice work Nat,

Now downloading the game kit.
Read the book. It looks, complicated.
I am a designer/artist – I was using flash with As3 to make my game but it was impossible to get a decent frame rate with full screen scrolling of tilemap.

Anyway,
I will make some very simple games at first – probably Pong, space invaders etc. to get a feel for the sdk and objective C.
Then I will attempt to do something more interesting….

i just bought the game kit and will start reading it ASAP. i was just wondering will this guide help me make text/touch based RPG apps like imobsters? please will you reply quickly, thanks

i just bought the game kit and will start reading it ASAP. i was just wondering will this guide help me make text/touch based RPG apps like imobsters? please will you reply quickly, thanks NAT

Hi everyone

I want to make a simple touch based game…. no moving around a level…

Been ages since I developed anything (ex-dev here). So I’m scratch my head a bit… Plus there’s a lot of concepts I’ve got to get my head around.