Having another bash at it. A simple asteroid game done with cocos2d.

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Git-r-done! I can't wait to play this one.

I started again. I've made sure the art is mine and paid an artist on 99designs. I've pretty much redone everything. I've now actually got collisions working. Asteroid spawning smaller asteroids when destroyed. Player to asteroid collision is working. I should be able to add the planets and large scrolling environment back again in the next few days.

http://www.baldock.net.au/styled/styled-3/index.html

New build 0.2 is out. Menus and some UI happening now. Hoping to get that larger environment working again as well as starting on sound. I've also been working on a design doc which I will include soon as well.
http://www.baldock.net.au/styled/styled-3/index.html

64-bit only?

mmm.. I thought I had 32/64 bit. I'll redo when I get home. I also need to look at some sort of scaling as I've developed on a 27" iMac and do some testing on a 22" iMac. Now sure how the game looks on a 13"

So I played the first version at the top:

1) You might want to smooth out the controls. As it is, how fast I turn is based on key-repeat rate.
2) you should set cocos2d's autoresizing to autoresize in your app delegate.


Then I played .2

Yep 0.2 now only procees turns every frame and checks to see if turn left/right has been flagged with a keypress so that should work better.
I'm guessing your flew the ship into the middle of the screen were the asteroids spawn? If so that crashs and I've yet to figure out why. Stepping though it and setting break points isn't helping nut that one out.
On a related note, is there any tutorials out there on how to read the apple crash reporter output? I can see that is died at 'Thread 7 Crashed:: CVDisplayLink' but I'm afraid I don't know to make that useful to me.

Ok now that I'm home I see I've uploaded a buggy build. I've now got to figure out what the hell I did last night at 1am. Let this be a warning to coding on caffeine and uploading.

Ok, found the problem. Another tip, when using version control do regular commits

Cool, another cocos2D developer.

Just checked it out and first impressions are that the ship breaks space-physics, the asteroids spawn point is buggy and the gun shoots really fast.

It's not bad.. but I'd say you've got your work cut out for you.

ah yes, well some of those settings are set for me. the number of bullets and the rate I cranked up so I could get the asteroids quickly. The current spawn point is really just for testing as well. Next release should see a large scrollable world and the asteroids will spawn off screen and fly towards centre. But you are right, lots of work left to do in the next 5 weeks and I've got a business trip for most of next week.

(Aug 22, 2011 11:48 AM)psykano Wrote:  Cool, another cocos2D developer.

Thought I recognized your user name from cocos2d forums

Yup, I frequent the cocos2d forums.

Are the physics, namely intertia, going to be changed?

Not likely at this stage. I'm working on expanding the game space and adding orbiting planets in again. As well as trying to work on the UI a bit more.

I had planned for more space physics and I had wanted to include gravity of all objects but I don't think I'll get that done.

Well, under the pump now. After my trip I got a dose of the flu and then got a serious chest infection which pretty much wrecked me for almost 3 weeks. I'm still on antibiotics and running at 75% normal.

Now just in clean up mode. Clean up the code and comment it. Hide any option which was never actually coded, ie sound/music. Put a screen letting people know controls. Try and make it more gamey, having a score etc. Reduce ammo count back to a normal level.