Position a CCSprite in any way imaginable
In a couple of my projects I needed to be able to position and scale or rotate based on different anchor points on the same sprite. For example, I am using CCLabelTTF and I’m trying to highlight...
View ArticleSaving a Photo With AVFoundation and Core Image
I promised in the comments a few days ago that I would post how one would go about saving a photo using the program I created in the last Core Image post. We’re already passing the video feed into a...
View ArticleLightning in Corona
My partner and I are working on putting together a new educational game project for the Department of Education at a University here. We are going to be creating a bunch of mini games each with a small...
View ArticleQuick Tip about Disabling ARC on Multiple Files at Once
I found this comment on stackoverflow, pixelfreak is the author. But, there are multiple places where it is said that you cannot set the -fno-objc-arc flag on multiple files at once in Xcode. Not true....
View ArticleEasiest Twitter App Ever (plus NSLinguisticTagger)
My very first idea for an iphone app was something that would allow me to navigate the language used in tweets. I wanted to create an app that pulled twitter data, based on a search phrase, parse the...
View ArticleCocos2D Particle Engine w/Different Sprites
Most of my development work is centered around educational games. I am co-founder of Third Rail Games, LLC. A while back I wanted to modify the particle system in Cocos2D so that it would put out...
View ArticleMore Fun With Cocos2d Particles
My latest attempt is to extend the Cocos2d particle system to include a variety of things, multiple particle sprites, animated sprites, flow fields, and eventually a boids algorithm implementation....
View ArticleDisable Home Button or Kiosk Mode
I was asked today about how to disable the home button on an iOS device. I didn’t think it was possible to do so, but a little snooping around and I found that it was. The context of the conversation...
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