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RPG Style Game for the iPhone – Part 2: Tiled Maps

By Ameesh Kapoor | Published on June 29, 2011 in Cocos2d, Intermediate, RPG and Tutorials. 3 Comments Tags: class, cocos2d, Development, Download, framework, game, iphone, map, mapeditor, programming, source, source code, tile, tiles, tutorial, Tutorials, update.

Update: Made some modifications to the source code – changed the title music (Hope you enjoy a remix of Dragon Warrior) and expanded the map to give a better idea of how you can use the space. Also, I added grid lines to the tiles so it didn’t looks so much like a painting. More parts to come!

It’s been a while since part 1 – we know from your comments that it’s not your favorite thing in the world (it’s not ours either) but we’re gonna try to get going again!

That being said, if you haven’t read part 1 of the tutorial, or the intro describing what we’re working towards, now’s your chance to play catch-up before plunging forward into the next piece of unknown – tile based maps using Tiled!

As will be the case for the rest of the tutorial, we’re using the Cocos2D framework for game development, which already includes support for the TMX file format (we’ll get to that later – just know that it makes our lives easier!). To build the map, we’re going to be using Tiled Qt, a fantastic piece of software that makes creating maps a piece of cake!

Source code after the break!
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Cocos2d Tutorial – Using In-App Purchases

By Ameesh Kapoor | Published on June 8, 2011 in Cocos2d, Intermediate and Tutorials. 43 Comments Tags: cocos2d, in-app, itunes connect, money, payments, purchase, ray wenderlich, test user, tutorial.

*** NOTE: The in-app purchase items that are included in the sample code will only work if you are accessing the US app store. If you are outside of the US, you will have to create your own application and in-app purchase items, and overwrite the ID’s that we specify in the code. Thanks to reader Ben Rad for pointing out that it also will not work with jailbroken iOS devices! ***
Hey everyone – we’re in the midst of a project where we’ve just had to implement In-App purchases, so we figured we would get this quick little tidbit of info out to you all. What we’ve put together is a quick sample app based off of Ray Wenderlich’s tutorial. Ray’s tutorial was based off of UIViews, and we here at iPhone Game Tutorials love Cocos2d (download here!) so we ported this over. Hopefully this helps someone make some big bucks!

Source after the break!

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Building a Slide Image Game (Part 2 – With Solution)

By Walter Reid | Published on March 17, 2011 in Cocos2d, Intermediate and Slide Image. 12 Comments Tags: CCLabel, CCSprite, cocos2d, Download, game, getChildByTag, iphone, puzzle, slide image, source, source code, tutorial, Tutorials.

Hi Everyone! We’re going to revisit the image sliding tutorial to add one additional feature. We are going to determine whether the puzzle has been solved or not. The task should be fairly straight forward so lets get started right away!

Source code after the break!
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Building a Match 3 Type Game

By Walter Reid | Published on March 3, 2011 in Cocos2d, Intermediate and Match 3. 18 Comments Tags: actionWithTarget, CCDirector, ccTouchesBegan, Cocos, Download, full game, game source, iphone, iTouch, locationInView, sharedDirector, slide image, source code, tutorial, Tutorials.

So, we’ve set the ground work to start actually building a game with our menu, sprite, touch and animations tutorials using cocos2d. Now lets try something a little more adventurous – Lets actually create a simple “match 3″ game. What’s is a match 3 game, you may be asking… Well you’ve played them before I’m sure if you’ve ever played a flash game on the internet (The most famous of them being bejeweled). You can see the full game here – It’s free for the full game now! Drop Dead – Check it out now on itunes. The game play mechanic is very straight forward -

You create tiles with different looks
You randomly place those tiles in a 7×7 or 8×8 grid
If three of the same objects line up either vertically or horizontally they all get removed from the grid
All objects then fall to fill the gaps left by the removed tiles

Done. Can’t we do it… Hell yeah we can… So lets ge started.

Source code after the break!
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How to Save the Game Settings in your iPhone game

By Ameesh Kapoor | Published on February 21, 2011 in Intermediate. 3 Comments Tags: archivedDataWithRootObject, encodeWithCoder, game, initWithCoder, iphone, NSCoding, NSData, NSKeyedArchiver, NSKeyedUnarchiver, singleton pattern, static class, tutorial, unarchiveObjectWithData.

If you have any kind of options or preferences menu, you want to make sure that any changes your user makes will carry over from one game session to the next. For example, if your user mutes the Music volume, it’s good practice for that to always be the case, no matter how many times they open or close the app, until he or she unmutes it. So – what’s the best way for saving this info?
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Building a Slide Image Game

By Walter Reid | Published on September 23, 2010 in Cocos2d, Intermediate and Slide Image. 49 Comments Tags: ccaction, CCDirector, ccmoveto, CCSpriteFrame, cocos2d, code, Download, Example, game, iphone, slide image, source code, sprites, tile based games, tiles, tutorial, Tutorials.

It’s been a week since our last tutorial and in this new tutorial, we’re going to actually tackle a game – A slider game… You know the type of game I’m talking about, the players job is to put a game that is jumbled up, back together again. The great thing about games of this type is that we can use this as our first foray into the world of tile based games.

So what do we need to create this wonderful type of game? Below are a list of steps to make your own tile based slider game:

Create a “Tile” class that has a sprite, a position and a value
Create a manager type class that will create all the tiles and keep track of them
Add touch components that will allow the user to swap tile locations
Add additional image randomizations so there is more variety in the game

That’s it… Sounds simple when written out, huh? Well, we’re going to go through it and show you that it can be simple.

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Archive for the 'Intermediate' Category

RPG Style Game for the iPhone – Part 2: Tiled Maps

Cocos2d Tutorial – Using In-App Purchases

Building a Slide Image Game (Part 2 – With Solution)

Building a Match 3 Type Game

How to Save the Game Settings in your iPhone game

Building a Slide Image Game

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