Gametel controller

I bought a Gametel bluetooth controller at the Gadget Show. It works with iOS and Android, and is compatible with iCade games.

The really cool thing is you can clip your iPhone in and you get a game console with buttons! Perfect for some games.

You can find out more here:

http://gametel.se/

I'll be updating Neon Invaders, Stick Man vs Zombies, and my forthcoming platform game (currently called Gumbo's big adventure) to work with it.

Great site for splitting sprite sheets

Here's a great site that splits sprite sheets into separate files:

http://imagesplitter.net/

You can use the output these to put into Zwoptex and then use them as sprites in Cocos2d.

New game

I'm currently working on a new platform game, based on the GFX-Fuzz open source graphics library. http://www.spicypixel.net/2008/01/10/gfxlib-fuzed-a-free-developer-graphic-library/

Tanks vs Targets Update Approved

An updated to Tanks vs Target has been approved. This gives things to shoot that give more time, and gold targets, worth more points.

It took seven days to approve for the apps store. This is the same as the last few updates and new submissions.

BlockShift update submitted

I've just submitted an update to BlockShift, which adds support for Game Center.

I've not updated this for quite a while, so it started in XCode 3. I foolishly clicked the 'Validate Settings' tab in XCode which caused me a couple of problems.

Firstly, it treated a bunch of what were previously warnings as errors..


assigning to property with 'readonly' attribute not allowed

... when I assigned a color to a CCMenu, which always seemed to work fine.

I had to go through and change this to assign the color to the label in the menu items instead - tedious.

Secondly, I had a validation problem (Failed Validation) as it said it required armv6. As far as I could so I had everything in place for this (armv6 and armv7 everywhere in the compiler options). No joy, so I ended up setting the minimum OS to 4.3 rather than 4.2, which at least means it validated OK and I could submit it.

Downloads Update

Downloads
Stick Man vs Zombies - 42,544, (32,873)
Doodle Rocket Ship -  2656 (2435)
Neon Invaders HD -  1870 (1,678)
BlockShift - 930 (902 )
BlockShift 2 - Doodle Edition - 910 (879)
Dodging Zombies in the Dark 2 - 955 (-)
Neon Invaders -  940 (911)
Retro Invaders - 665 (637)
Tanks vs Targets -  557 (486)
mScrob -  184 (-)
Caerleon Treasure Hunt -  30 (24)

Game Center Players
Stick Man - 6351 (5147 )
Doodle Rocket Ship -  794  (704)
Neon Invaders HD -  724 (614)
Dodging Zombies in the Dark 2 352 (-)
Neon Invaders -  306 (290)
Blockshift 2 -  163 (158)
Retro Invaders -  122 - (111)
Tanks vs Targets -  125 (105)


Total Downloads: 52,787

Tanks vs Targets Update Submitted

I've just submitted an update to Tanks vs Targets.

I've added golden targets, that are worth 10 times as many points, and stop watch targets, that add time in 60 second mode.