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Is “forcing the user” to accept the terms an acceptable design in a smartphone/iPhone game?

I am about to release my first iPhone game, has been a long project and I involved several people. My lawyer strongly recommended me to add a "terms and conditions" page at the beginning of the app ...
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Location-based mobile game without data plan

I'm in the planning phases of a mobile-based game that depends heavily on tracking your location (think FourSquare). The main problem I have is storing and tracing location. If a user has a phone ...
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How do I approach large companies if I have a killer mobile game idea?

I have an idea for a game that has potential, but I'm not a programmer. How do I tell this to development companies without having my idea stolen? All I want from the company is for somebody to ...
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CGPointMake in Respect to other UIImageViews

I have a UIImageView called hitBox, and another image called mainSprite. So what I want to do is when an IBAction is pressed, it will move hitBox to above mainSprite. I don't know if this is syntax ...
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Keeping user's attention with tycoon style games

I'm developing a tycoon game, and with most games in the "genre", some in game things just take time. Making money, waiting for things to happen, etc. For mobile gaming (ios, android), how do I keep ...
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How to decrease velocity constantly?

I am developing a golf game using the GameSalad framework for iPhone. I have one attribute named speed of type integer with value 5000. I also have one boolean attribute named speedControl which is ...
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Is it any good to make play game in zoom condition?

I'm developing a game with large obstacle and sprites(in cocos2d+box2d for iPhone), then after zooming out my sprites and layer (by increasing cameraZ), I make my game to play by user, which causes ...
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Games for Facebook, iPhone, Web

if I want to build a game for web, facebook, and iphone, do I need to build 3 completely different versions? I know there is a new company that is "build once, launch anywhere," but I'm asking about ...
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iPhone Game - Sprites

I have made games with cocos2d for the iphone however I am looking to move on from that, is there a good direction you could suggest? If not I was planning on using what the SDK gives me, and so for ...
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Creating Level iPhone

I am thinking about a new game idea for the iPhone and presumably all the levels would have to be made programatically. So Im wondering what the best method to approach it? Say I have a game with a ...
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Should I store game settings in my game data class?

I'm working on a small-ish 2d fixed shoot 'em up for iPhone. I have a master Game object that stores lives, score, current level, etc... The game will have some other persistent attributes like ...