Hi! I’ve been working on a game project with Cocos2d-x 3.0. From time to time as I’m searching for documentation I can’t find any clear examples of how thing x works. So for now I decided to write simple samples/tutorials for such topics. The first one will be creating light shader for a dark scene. … Read more
Hello, so I just had a bit of a fight with WordPress trying to get it to install updates automatically for itself and my plugins. I have manually been installing updates by connecting through ssh to my Amazon EC2 server which is little too complicated to do often. So this guide presumes you have installed … Read more
Hi, long time since last post. Anyway, I participated in Ludum Dare 48h game development competition which ended about 12 hours ago. Because I haven’t taken a part in these kind of competitions before, I thought I’d have hard time getting my game completed in such a short time. Theme was “Connecting worlds”. The theme … Read more
In case someone has problems implementing Mac Cocos2d-x 2.x keyboard like I did, here is link to GitHub with working solution: https://github.com/joni-mikkola/cocos2d-x/tree/keyboard I have provided sample project with the implementation code. I downloaded the original code from somewhere in Cocos2d-x forums and modified it properly to work with Mac OS X. All you have to do, … Read more
For the last month I’ve been developing my first complete game called Senile Bird. It is indeed inspired by Flappy Bird with little modifications I thought would make Senile Bird better. Game page: Senile Bird My game projects until this, have been mostly unfinished projects that I’ve lost faith in after the initial burst of … Read more
Hi, while I developed Senile Bird, I automated some parts of the process, such as scaling icons properly for iOS and Android devices. Since for iOS 6 and iOS 7 icons there is a minor difference on the edge curvature, I put them as separate parameters. PNG file should have at least size of 192px, … Read more