Hi Nat,

Just got the ‘kit’ and all looks very good so far! I’ve already done 3 apps (business, utility and fun) but really want to tackle a game now. I had taken a quick look at tiled/cocos2d before but your book does a nice walkthrough of creating levels.

For my first game I want to do a top down racing game and just wondered how you would tackle it. I want the road to narrow/widen so I’m thinking perhaps drawing tiles dynamically at the top of the screen and then scrolling them down?

Cheers

Gary

Thanks for that Nat.

Just as an aside do you just copy all the Cocos2D files into your project? I installed one of the Cocos2D XCode templates but when I try and build a simple Cocos2d app using the template I get all sorts of errors, typically where it cant find the paths to the relevant cocos2d directories.

Gary

Hi,
when I start the kit’s xCode project and run it in the simulator i get the following messages:

2010-07-27 05:29:19.269 QuexlorLite[11041:4e03] Cannot find executable for CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0xc506670 </Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin> (not loaded)
2010-07-27 05:29:19.270 QuexlorLite[11041:4e03] Cannot find function pointer NewPlugIn for factory C5A4CE5B-0BB8-11D8-9D75-0003939615B6 in CFBundle/CFPlugIn 0xc506670 </Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL/DVCPROHDAudio.plugin> (not loaded)

What does that mean? Are those plug-ins really missing? I’ve never come across them…

Thanks
Marco

PS: Sorry for posting this in the “Welcome” thread. I should have opened a new thread for that…

Marco. Yup, I get that in the console when I run the simulator as well. To be honest, it’s just a warning message I’ve always ignored. Here’s a thread that might help if you want to get rid of it:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2345263/cannot-find-executable-for-cfbundle-cfplugin-error

Nat,

Just started reading the book last night.

Was getting ready to buy Starcraft II when I saw a post talking about your book.

Here’s the link to the site: http://www.learn-cocos2d.com/2010/07/stumbled/

Decided to spend that money here instead.

Hope it turns out to be a wise decision! ;-)

-Greg

Hey Nat!, i just got the gameKit today, it’s a very nice material, i had been looking for something like this for a long time, as soon as i finish develop my first game i’ll add you to the credits! jejeje.

Hi all,

I just bought this Kit and I think its awesome. Just to let you know, haha. I may have some questions in a few days, when I finished the book! I know where to find the forum. ;) Thanks for this great book & source, Nat!

Wouter
The Netherlands

Decided to spend that money here instead.

Hehe, game development beats playing Starcraft 2! That’s the way I like it. :)

My favourite game is old:

Below the Root (Apple IIe / C64)
it’s the kind of game I want to make now. Exploring a vast platform world of giant trees (just like in the book it was based on).

Besides having the biggest map for any game at that time, it had sophisticated and subtle movement. You could walk, run, crouch, jump, and glide like a flying squirrel (if you had a shuba). It was also one of the first games where you could choose to be one of 5 different characters, each having strengths and weaknesses that would change how you approach tasks in the adventure. This was the best game ever in 1985, and it is still magic today. This is really the only reason I want to make a game, to create worlds like this.

More modern:
Age of Empires II
I originally thought I’d try to make something like this. It’s the only modern game I ever got really addicted to. With all the different types of units and upgrades, it’s a perfect example of how you need a solid game engine and solid classes so you basically tweak everything in plist settings. I still think this would be a great challenge to make. Others have done similar games yet they either aren’t as much fun or lack something. So building the game engine is not all there is. Besides functioning, it has to make you want to come back and improve, to test more and more and see how far you can push the game.

Wow. I checked out those vids and pics of Below the Root and it made me want to play right now! I’m very impressed they pulled that off in text mode. Reminds me a little bit of ZZT. I loved ZZT because it allowed us to make our own levels and even had a programming language (ZZT-OOP) for creating your own dialogue and interacting with the player.

It looks like you are right about the programming languages used on Commodore 64 / Apple IIe.

Starcraft… Lemmings… World of goo…

My Favorite Games are

World of Warcraft
Everquest
Might and Magic VI
Birth of the Federation
Masters of Orion II
Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri
Civilization (played 1 and 2 and im sure I would like the new one)
Sim City
Star Trek: Starfleet Command
Sim Earth
Lemmings
Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds,
Secret of the Silver Blades, Pools of Darkness (wonderful set of games)

Doom .. was just ok for me.. I never got into First Person Shooters.. but the graphics were SO impressive for when It came out. I used to play the game just to look at the graphics :)