My iPhone Game Tutorials for Beginners

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Thank you!!!!! In the credits of my game who should I put you as?
Gandolf from the GMG forums?

[Gan]

Gandolf or Matthew French. Either would be fine.


-Gan

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Also, I was trying to figure out how to play music in games. Before, I just added the AVFoundation.framework file, #imported the header into the project, and then used this bit of code in awakeFromNib to load, play, and keep looping the music:

NSString* pathToMusicFile = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"MusicFile" ofType:@"mp3"];
AVAudioPlayer* music = [[AVAudioPlayer alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL fileURLWithPath:pathToMusicFile] error:NULL];
music.numberOfLoops = -1;
music.volume = 1;
[music play];

But every time I try this in the Ultimate iPhone Template, I get an error whether I compile for the simulator or for a device. Any help is much appreciated! Thanks.

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Ah, I managed to get that working by dragging/dropping the AVFoundation framework from a different project into the frameworks folder of the Ultimate iPhone Template. But now I need help with figuring out how to draw text in the UIT... I tried copying over the files from the OpenGL template for Texture2D.h/.m, but it still wouldn't let me draw text - it wouldn't give an error, it just wouldn't draw the text. Any help is much appreciated.

[Gan]

Yeah text drawing is incomplete in the template. Later I'll update it and stick it up.


-Gan

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How long do you think that will take? Thank you for all the awesome work you've done on the template though. Me and a friend are making a game now, and without the template we would be stuck with buttons and switches and labels and static UIImages. Thanks man!

[Gan]

Glad you like it. I'll stick up the update sometime tomorrow.
Drawing text is a bit different in OpenGl than what you're use to. You'll find out later.


-Gan

[Gan]

http://web.mac.com/avisaria/Ultimate%20iPhone%20Template%20Portrait.zip

If you need to customize text color, size, or font just ask.


-Gan

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Thank you!

Is it possible to have game logic and have the AppDelegate doing stuff when the game is in its menu? I want to have menu music and then different music for in-game. How do you think I should do this? BTW the music is longer than 30 seconds.

[Gan]

For having game logic running during the menu just move around the initializeTimer and pauseTimer commands until it suits your needs.
The code you have for music will work fine for main menu music. Just tell it to play when entering the main menu.

Sorry for the vague answers. Power's out and on iPhone.


-Gan

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Ah. I see. That makes sense, thank you! (haha I'm on my iPod Touch)

[Silverwind]

Hehehe... good old Gan.

Teaching the world how to program, one forum member at a time!

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Is it possible to use custom fonts, or must you use the default fonts pre-installed on the iPhone?

[Gan]

There's only a limited number of fonts on the iPhone. To change the font go to the GameView class, search Georgia and replace it with your font name. The default size is 15, you can change that as well.


-Gan

[breshi]

"Teaching the world how to program, one forum member at a time!"
- My turn!

I am trying  to understand the logic of your new template and work out why there is code in AppDelegate and GameView for ball collisions. What type of coding goes in each, in your last template all I really had to do was modify the AppDelegate.

Also in the xib the color is set to white but the background is black. I could eventually figure out where you set this but thought I would be lazy and ask the question.
Thanks!!