iOS is an operating system for mobile devices created by Apple Inc. It runs on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
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Kinetic scrolling in AS3
I have a container movieclip that contains my "game" and I would like to be able to drag the "camera" (i.e. the container clip) around, but I need it to have kinetic movement, i.e. feel more like ...
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How to use generic level editors with my arbitary code?
I have a game, breakout clone. It has a Block class that contains CCSprite as a property.
Usually I made levels by manually setting those blocks to positions.
Here comes the question, how do I use ...
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IOS OpenGl transparency performance issue
I have built a game in Unity that uses OpenGL ES 1.1 for IOS. I have a nice constant frame rate of 30 until i place a semi transparent texture over the top on my entire scene. I expect the drop in ...
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How change the size of sprite in cocos2d?
I want to change the scale of sprite like a paper in 'Paper Toss' game.
'Paper Toss' is the game is available on the App store. I want to make a sprite like a paper and change the scale of sprite ...
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Using pixel art on small high resolution screens
I'm making a game and I would like to utilize pixel art as my style. But I faced a problem, modern displays on my target platform (iOS) have extremely high resolution.
So if my artist makes me some ...
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For a real-time PvP game, what network service would get the job done?
The game is between two players, real time, and has to be very synchronized - latency will certainly favor one player over the other.
It's built for iOS and Android and every touch on one end has to ...
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Help retrieving/sending data to/from a server on iOS (C#, Mono, .Net)
I'm sorry in advance if this is a silly question.
I'm currently working on getting something running where I can grab information from a server. My goal is to make the data I'm retrieving (or ...
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How to store level information on iOS
Let's imagine I have a breakout game. I make a level like this:
For columns < max columns
For rows < max rows
Create sprite from file, put it on some position based on
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Good open source iOS games? [closed]
I would like to see how things are done in modern iOS games, I am especially interested in Cocos2D games.
I need a game that will compile (warnings are ok) and since most of the project I have seen ...
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Is deferred rendering/shading possible with OpenGL ES 2.0 ?
I asked this on StackOverflow, but it might make more sense here:
Has anyone implemented deferred rendering/shading under OpenGL ES 2.0? It doesn't support MRTs, so with only one color buffer, it's ...
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Touch area double sized on newer device
I am developing a universal puzzle game, in which I have used separate image for iPhone4 and for iPhone3, iPhone4 image is double in size of iPhone3 image. My issue is for iPhone4, touch area of image ...
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How do I render .dae models?
I'm building a game for iOS. I'm quite new to OpenGL but what I want is to take a 3D model I have made in Google SketchUp and use it in my 3d game. The problem is I don't know how to proceed. I have ...
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How to simulate a water splash effect?
I need to achieve the effect of a ball falling down into a pool then splashing in the water.
At first, I made a sensor to detect the collision between the ball and the water and then show the sprite ...
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iOS app installations fluctuating? [closed]
Anybody have any ideas about this?
Why would installations for an app go down for 3 days in a row and then go up, then go down again? And why would it be going down in one country but go up a bit on ...
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Rolling a 3d die in cocos2d
How can I have a 6 sided die in my cocos2d game and when the device is shaked the die rolls and shows a number? I would also use UIKit if it was necessary.
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Touching a CGRect
In my cocos2d app I am trying to determine when a CCSprite is touched
Here is what I have:
-(BOOL)ccTouchBegan:(UITouch *)touch withEvent:(UIEvent *)event{
NSMutableArray *targetsToDelete = ...
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Level selection view - similiar to Angry Bird's
I am making game and need to prepare view for level selection. Could you recommend me some opensource library which could I use? I need icons to vibrate after long pressing one of them, some callbacks ...
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Falling images that can be pressed
In my cocos2d app I am trying to make images fall from the top of the screen and detect when they are pressed. I am having a hard time. Can anyone help me achieve this? Thanks.
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What is the best way to display a cut scene?
How do we show cutscene in the game? Currently I am using images and animation upon them to show cutscenes or story. I heard from my friend that showing a video might be one of the option too.
Is it a ...
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Is it legal to use the name of an existing game?
I'm planning on creating an iPhone game titled "Guess Who!". I know there is already a board game with the same title (linked here) so I'm wondering it is legal for me to use this title for my game. ...
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Carousel level selector
In my cocos2d game I need the user to select a menu so I was hoping that they could use a carousel (like the one in ski on neon or sonic racing for the iPad). I realized that there is nothing for this ...
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Cocos2d: Tongue effect like in Munch Time
I'm wanting to do a tongue effect for my character like the one in Munch Time( shown in pic ). The player does some action and his tongue attaches to the nearest platform.
I'm thinking this is ...
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iOS : Creating a 3D Compass
Originally posted here: iOS : Creating a 3D Compass
Hi everybody,
Quite new in this forum.Posted the same question in stackoverflow and there some people suggested to shift it here, so that I can get ...
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Is the STL efficient enough for mobile devices?
When it comes to mobile game development on iOS and Android NDK, some developers write their own C++ containers, while others claim that STL is more than adequate for mobile game development (For ...
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OpenGL ES 2 - glSwapBuffers?
this is what i do to blit FBO onto screen in ViewController:
[m_Context presentRenderbuffer:GL_RENDERBUFFER];
but i need something like glSwapBuffers, so that i can call it somewhere from the ...
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Straightforward guidelines for converting OpenGL to OpenGL ES?
Is there a straightforward list of finite steps that I need to follow to convert an OpenGL program into an OpenGL ES that's used on the iPhone and iPad? I'd be using GLKit.
I've seen some similar API ...
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Missing z-axis rotation for transforming between two vectors
I'm trying to rotate a cube so that it's facing up, but am getting hung up on the final implementation details. It now reliably will rotate the x,y axis to the correct side, but the z-axis is never ...
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Can a local multiplayer iOS game display differently for each device?
I've seen games which display different data for two devices, but not more than two.
If possible, can it be accomplished using GameKit?
EDIT:
More specifically, I was thinking local multiplayer via ...
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Which java game engine is better? [closed]
I'm new to mobile game development and I have a number of questions to ask. So if you could please answer them, it would be highly appreciated
The game I'm trying to release is a 2D arcade game. My ...
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AI engine for iOS game development?
I'm looking for an AI engine for iOS game development (machine learning, path finding).
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How to load big size CCTMXTiledMap in cocos2d?
I am try to design a cocos2d game that with a big world. The wolrd tiled map is very big, maybe 20 ipad screen sizes. I want to know how to load CCTMXTiledMap into screen? If I directly add it to ...
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Optimizing graphics for an iOS flash game
A friend of mine and myself are working on a flash developed iOS (and later Android) puzzle board game. He's a developer and I'm a designer/developer so (no surprise) we have different points of view.
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How to achieve uniform speed of movement on a bezier curve?
I'm trying to move an image along Bezier curve. This is how I do it:
- (void)startFly
{
[self runAction:[CCSequence actions:
[CCBezierBy actionWithDuration:timeFlying bezier:[self ...
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Help figuring out how to build for the iOS Unit3D
So currently I'm exporting my game strictly for testing to the iOS (iPad.)
I don't own a Mac, so I'm having my client make a build from his Mac, but that means I need very specific instructions for ...
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Can glTexImage2D() use an already existing memory block?
Can I use glTexImage2D() and / or glTexSubImage2D() (or maybe there's some other method I don't know about) with an already existing block of memory, instead of always uploading the changed pixels? I ...
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How to test a turn-based ios Game Center game with 2 devices?
This might well be a very dumb question, but here goes anyway, I'm planning my turn-based ios game center game, obviously I know I'll need 2 iDevices to test it on, but how would I test the online ...
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iOS Game Development [closed]
I'm an iOS app developer. But I dont have any gaming development experience and I'm excited to learn and start. Can anyone suggest from where I should start? When I search internt I find lot of buz ...
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CCSprite x and y comparison
I have 2 CCSprites and I want to tell if their x and y are equal I tried this:
if(sam.position.x == tom.position.x && sam.position.y == tom.position.y){
NSLog(@"Hooray!");
}
Although I do ...
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Is developing for non-retina iPod Touch/iPhones still worth it for deployment?
We're a couple of guys making games for iPod Touch and iPhone. I personally have an iPhone 4 with the retina display and I'll be using this as my main test device. I have an opportunity to purchase a ...
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Rotate 3D cube so nearest side is facing user
How do I figure out the new angle and rotation vectors for the most visible side of the cube?
Why: The user can rotate cube, but when finished I'd like the cube to snap to a side facing the user.
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Efficient Bullet Firing Class
I've been struggling with this for a while. I have been trying to create a bullet pool class for a game I have made that doesn't cause a significant fps drop.
I have tried creating a bullet pool ...
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Development Business Question [closed]
Please forgive my posting if this doesn't belong, as I'm at my "day job" and I'm hoping to get advice here as in my heart it pertains to this area.
I have two apps (iOS) a game and a utility that I'm ...
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Prototyping a puzzle game for solvability of levels
I am in the prototyping phase of making a puzzle game for iOS. The basic premise of what the player has to do is get from point A to point B by navigating through a maze like setup, while moving ...
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Making a 2d puzzle game like Unblock Me for iOS and need advice.
I have a simple game on the Apple App Store written entirely in Objective-C and Cocoa Touch.
I would like my next game to be like the Unblock Me game or Auqeduct where you have to drag pieces around ...
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iPhone 3D Game Development using Maya?
I'm reading up on 3D game development for the iPhone. I'm looking into programs like Unity for 3D development. My question is are these the best ways to go for 3D development for the iPhone-Unity or ...
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Mono and/or MonoGame for Android and iOS Experiences [closed]
I was wondering if anyone has any experience of using Mono and/or MonoGame for cross platform game development, particularly with regards to Android and iOS games development.
Key things are;
What ...
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GLSL Shader Solution for Ambient Occlusion?
For the iOS app I am writing I want to incorporate some aspects of ambient occlusion for photo manipulation. Can someone suggest a GLSL approach that will work. Realtime performance is not super ...
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Objective-C or C++ of game engine header file for iOS developers?
We've developed a game engine written in C++. Now we are preparing our game engine for iOS developers.
I guess that many game developers use C++ or Objective-C for their game apps. So I think we ...
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How is the iOS support in UDK compared to Unity? [closed]
I have some significant experience in Unity for web clients, but I'm skeptical about the 3K$ price tag to create/deploy iOS games. I noticed UDK now supports iOS, and appears to have "free" version ...
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BOX2D Kinematic Platform with parallax layer
I am using a kinematic body for my moving platform on x-axis, so I set the linear velocity to b2vec2(5,0).
When the player jump on the platform, it works like it is suppose to. But the thing is ...
