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Objective-C is a general-purpose, high-level, object-oriented programming language. It's mainly used for game development on Apple iOS and Mac OS devices, however it's not limitied to this platforms.

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Issue with removing sprites on collision

I'm trying to make a very simple collision detection procedure just for test purposes. The problem is with the send/receive information between functions I have these lines on the update method ...
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How do you maintain content size vs. content quality in a mobile application?

I am developing my first Cocos2d iPhone/iPad game that includes quite a few sprites, I would need approximately 80 different. As this is for both normal and HD displays I have 2x of each sprite. I am ...
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Best Method to Create Side Scrolling Levels? - Cocos2D

I am looking to start my first side scroller project using Cocos2D, but I am curious. What is the preferred/best method of creating you levels? For large levels I see hand making it very laborious, is ...
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How can I stop the next screen from briefly displaying at the start of a CCTransitionFadeTR?

I am testing transitions in cocos2d, and am running into a problem. I have a MainMenu screen which contains a button. The idea is that clicking on the button will trigger a CCTransitionFadeTR ...
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Learning C++ but wanting to develop iOS Apps

I'm a computer engineering student and taking my second programming class. I'm learning C++ using "C++ Primer Plus" 5th edition by Prata. I want to develop for iOS. I understand the main language for ...
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Snake game logic

So I'm thinking about making snake game. I started thinking about it. I figured out almost everything, but I have found one fundamental problem I can not fix myself and I need your help. The logic ...
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Are C and Objective-C sufficient for creating games on the iOS?

These days, I'm focusing on games development on the iOS. C++ is the lingua franca for games development but seriously, I prefer to code in C programming language, not in C++. So for iOS games ...
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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 can I make a rectangle to an irregular shape?

I used masking for breaking an image into the below pattern. Now that it's broken into different pieces I need to make a rectangle of each piece. I need to drag the broken pieces and adjust to the ...
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How to determine an irregular area of a CCSprite?

In my simple game I use boundingBox for pick coins and other stuff, but I need use irregular area detection of Sprite(with out Alpha)... There is alternative to boundingBox? Here is code: ...
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Count number of CCSprite added to a CCLayer

Does cocos2d has a method that returns the amount of CCSprites added to a CCLayer? A have SceneControlLayer object, and I added some CCSprites to it. @interface SceneControlLayer : CCLayer { } ...
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Connect 4 Iphone game

I'm new to game development and development in general, I want to make a Connect 4 game. I have made a few simple game tutorials and I decided I wanted to make my own game now. I figured a connect 4 ...
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iOS game integrated with Facebook - Random game

How could I implement a random game for iOS via Facebook. I registered my game with Facebook and done everything so far... Can Facebook do such a thing? EDIT I connected my app to Facebook, I can ...
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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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Detecting End of Animation

So I am making a death animation for a game. enemy1 is a UIImageView, and what I'm doing is when an integer is less than or equal to zero, it calls this deathAnimation which only happens once. What I ...
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Cocos2d Composition using CCSpriteBatchNode

I'm making a game in objective-c using cocos2d. I have the following: @interface Player : CCNode { CCSprite *mySprite; CCSpriteBatchNode *sceneSpriteBatchNode; //... } @property ...
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How to animate a flip of a card in Cocos2d?

I am working on a card game and would like to ask if someone could advice me how to implement a flip of a card in Cocos2D?
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opengles display human face in iphone and animate it?

I need to make a human 2D face to 3D face. I used this link to load an ".obj" file and map the textures. This example is only for cube and pyramid. I loaded a human face ".obj" file. This loads the ...
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Wait till all CCActions have completed

I am developing a simple cocos2d game in which I want to animate two CCSprites simultaneously, and for this purpose I simply set CCActions on respective `CCSprite's as follows. [first ...
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UIView with IrrlichtScene - iOS

i have a UIViewController in a Storyboard and want to draw a IrrlichtScene in this View Controller. My Code: WWSViewController.h #import <UIKit/UIKit.h> @interface WWSViewController : ...
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How do I save data to the iPhone properly and securely?

I'm creating a game using Cocos2D (objective-c) and it has come to the point where I have to save data to local storage, like high scores and similar stuff. I know that NSUserDefaults is not a good ...
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How do I repeatedly move an image by 1 pixel?

I have a method that is moving a UIImageView called shootImg across the screen: -(IBAction)shoot{ if (appDelegate.shootInt > 0) { if (direction == 1) { shootImg.center = ...
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OpenGL ES Faces appear to be transparent when alpha is 1.0?

I am working on an object (OBJ File) loader for my app on iOS, currently I have successfully read the vertices and the faces of the object, and I am now just adding colours to the imported models. I ...
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Detecting right/left collisions with a bounding box

I'm building a platformer in cocos2d, my first game project. I'm working on movement and collision detection. I'm using a tilemap with a "meta" layer of invisible blocks that are designated ...
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iOS Facebook SDK, Games Start Playing post

im trying to implement a method in my native iOS game the publish a story on face book such as this photo most games that is integrated with facebook share stories like this in the activity section ...
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How do I use Objective-C libraries in Cocos2d-x?

We've created several libraries in Objective-C in the past, and now we're moving to the Cocos2d-x game engine. We can't figure out how to reference and use those libraries (we've also tried compiling ...
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Data model for unlockable card collection

My game has a collection of cards (about 64) that are unlocked (one by one) provided that 4 items are collected/gained in the game. Right now the deck of cards is modeled with a plist file, like ...
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Design pattern for procedural terrain assets

I'm developing a procedural terrain class at the moment and am stuck on the correct design pattern. The terrain is 2D and is constructed from a series of (x,y) points. I currently have a method that ...
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How To show document directory save image in thumbnail in cocos2d class [closed]

I have just implemented multiple photo selection from iphone photo library and i am saving all selected photo in document directory every time as a array, now i want to show all saved images in my ...
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Cocos2D and iPhone's accelerometer

good afternoon! Today I've started to develop a game and I got a trouble. So, first at all I would like to say that I have no experience developing games... So, I've a CCSprite in the layer and I ...
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Game Development Resources? [closed]

I want to make an iPhone game and I was wondering if somebody could point me to some resources. Before you rage and close this, I am not looking for just a tutorial on programming, I could just google ...
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Zoom Layer centered on a Sprite

I am in process of developing a small game where a space-ship travels through a layer (doh!), in some situations the spaceship comes close to an enemy space ship, and the whole layer is zoomed in on ...
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Objective - Gestures while finger touches screen

I'm creating a space cocos2d game with objetive-c. I have in the bottom left 2 arrows to move the sprite left or right. I also implemented a swipe gesture to change weapon, however it only happens ...
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How do I randomly create and store enemy data for my iPhone game?

In my game you need to protect something from enemies. There can be many on the screen at once. But I don't know how to create the enemies randomly, and how I can save the data to each enemy? Can give ...
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Long running calculation on background thread

In my Cocos2D game for iOS I have a relatively long running calculation that happens at a fairly regular interval (every 1-2 seconds). I'd like to run the calculation on a background thread so the ...
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Quit the application when clicking cancel button of Alert View in C#

Can someone guide me as to how can I make an application quit when you press the cancel button of an Alert View in C# code? Thanks I forgot to add that I am trying to quit application on clicking ...
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Triangles in a C++ STL Vector as an Objective-C member sometimes draws incorrectly in OpenGL ES

The polygons draw correctly 80% of the time. When it fails, a vertex is dislocated. The polygon is consistently drawn with the wrong vertex. I checked that the vector is correct during initialization, ...
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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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Cocos2d: Adding a CCSequence to a CCArray

I have a problem with an action performed by a sprite. I have one CCSequence in a CCArray and I have an scheduled method (is called every 5 seconds) that make the sprite run the action. The action is ...
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b2Body moves without stopping

I got a quite strange bug. It is difficult to explain it in two words, but i'll try to do this in short. My b2Body has restitution, friction, density, mass and collision group. I'm controlling my ...
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Cocos2d: how to add anchor points to CCSpriteBatchNode

I am doing some tests with animations in Cocos2D using sprite-sheets. The animation works ok except that the anchor-point is in the center. I need to put it in the bottom. With the code below i am not ...
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What is the most secure way to archive a GKScore to be re-submitted later?

I'm looking for the safest way to archive and store a GKScore that needs to be re-submitted to Game Center (say, because the user didn't have a network connection at the time the score was earned). I ...
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How to store NPC movement data?

In my 2D tile-based game, I have NPCs that move around on a fixed path. I am putting the information about the NPCs in a .plist file that is loaded on startup. The thing is, I'm not sure how to format ...
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Using depth buffer on a sprite

I am following this guide: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/wiki/doku.php/prog_guide:tiled_maps Trying to create a tiled map that also supports multiple layers. The guide says that a way is to use ...
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Admob banner not getting remove from superview

I am developing one 2d game using cocos2d framework, in this game i am using admob for advertising, in some classes not in all classes but admob banner is visible in every class and after some time ...
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OpenGLES how to make a 3D object iOS

I am a newbie in OpenGLES, so pardon me if I cannot state the question properly. Is it possible to create a 3D box with the following imports only: OpenGLES, QuartzCore, GLKit I have created a 2D ...
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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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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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Thread-safety in Cocos2d-iPhone?

After tinkering a bit with cocos2d, I discovered that there is no classic game loop and everything is more-or-less event driven. I guess I can wrap my head around that, no problem. But I cannot find ...
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Keep running CGRectIntersect Method - Objective C

I have two UIImageViews. mainSprite, and enemy1. And I have a method that makes enemy1 start moving towards mainSprite. So here's that method. -(void)enemy1Aggro{ if ...

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