HI Nat, i just yesterday bought your kit, and today i have some grasp on what and how i should develop the game :). My all time favorites is games like old UFO :) would be nice to implement something like this. Some ideas i would like to see in my game:

Action points based movement (more than one player? a team maybe?)
Player interactions: (bubble messages or maybe a scene with players talking)
Map/Mini-map
Usable items on demand: like grenades, health potions
Some activated effects with time limit (force shield, invisibility cloak)
projectile weapons: lasers, bullet guns, power guns

Its likely not a 24h game :D but your kit gave me confidence for doing a bigger project :)

Looking to create a Defender type game, for starters. Haven’t purchased yet, but really close. Any advice would be appreciated.

hello there, im new here..

i bought the kit a couple of weeks ago

i would like to do some space invaders kind of game for start, also i would like to do a side scrolling platformer in the future

Wow. Interesting game topic! Keep us posted on your progress and have fun. :)

Hi Nat! Hi Guys!

Nat, nice kit and writing – I really like the way you wrote your book/guide, hence it is easy to follow. And mainly I appreciate your work and I believed that if it wasn’t for you I didn’t start again to do game development.

By day I’m a rails developer and by night I work on my dragons game. I used to work as a game developer for a few months but since it was Unity3D I didn’t like it – mainly because I didn’t felt that I control very well the unity environment. Anyway, is way more fun to work on your own game!!!

I have some game-dev experience (with Unity3D a bit of SIO2 and cocos2d), but I build this experience on my own without having any guidance (It was so fun) and right now I’m using your kit mainly as an “game architecture example”.

Games I plan to develop:
1. A dragons game – where you have dragon and your mission is to defend a village.
2. An on water tower defense game.
3. many others.

I will come with more details! For the games I plan to use the iphone-gamekit or some parts of it. But like I said, I will come with more details as I have more code written and compileable.

Games FTW!

Hi Nat,
I came across your site and game kit reading APress “Learn iPhone and iPad cocos2d Game Development”. Compared to the bad old days of CPM and DOS when I started out, kits like yours make it so much easier to focus on ideas rather than how to code them. The tools available today are amazing. Limited resource devices like the iPhone are almost like coming full circle from the old 8 bit days, and early web development days.

I’ve been a developer for over 25 years. I’ve got about 6 weeks to put together a game and decide whether or not it’s a viable way of making a living, or continue “working for the man”.

My principal game idea is very loosely built around “Zombieland” or “Shaun of the Dead”. The two most important elements will be a sense of humor throughout and having to solve problems. I think a key element a lot of games lack is a motive. IE: Mindless hacking and slashing is entertaining for 5 or so minutes, after that it becomes a bit rinse and repeat with harder monsters. I’d like to incorporate some of the old times adventure elements. EG: If you run out of the house without picking up the keys, you end up a Zombie brunch in the front yard because you locked yourself out :) It woyuld be nice to have animated sequences where the character realises what they’ve just done to reinforce the humor aspect.

If I manage to come up with something and launch a website I’ll be sure to write an update.

Hi Nat,

I have brought the kit after reading from the forums and etc …..

I wanted to make a strategy game (something like Battleloot Adventure), I wonder if that is possible. I currently have a team of 3 planning to do it.

Hi to all other ppl in the forums and may all game making sparks new adventures for you !!

Cheers and happy coding ….