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So, the last two weeks I've finally started developing seriously towards the iOS system, and my first game is taking shape.

Screenshot.

The basic gameplay is working, I just have to add a main menu and bonuses to collect.

I might need betatesters later, so do any of you guys own an idevice and would like to try it?
I count on all of you to tell your friends to buy it later, once it's done, and write positive reviews ;D

While waiting you can always try out the windows version (Hehe it's not as good as the iphone version, really bad programmed and uglier)...

It's written in Objective C using the Cocos2d framework, which I really recommend to anybody interested in trying out iphone game development!

If you ever put the fully completed version up for download for Windows, I might get it. Not now though. It looks cool, anyhow.

Thanks

Yeah, it's not worth downloading the old windows version, I might re-make it once I've finished it for iPhone

I promise to get it on my iPod.

Thanks

No problem just make sure to add somthing unique because there are lots of games like it.

Yeah, it's not very unique, but I'll add some neat bonus-items and maybe different skins later, in updates

And I haven't found a game that is exactly like it yet, clkosest I've seen is FallDown!, and that's a quite different gameplay... but then again it's still close to most arcade iphone games...

Skins work out well and also the power-ups good choice and one suggestion is that you could make different characters since there droids all you have to do is add different numbers and change there color scheme.

Oh thanks for the idea!
I'll defiantly add more characters, maybe for the first release or as an update!

I'll add the same power-ups as in the windows version ( +5 pints, +10 points, +25 points, Extra movement speed and one that slows down the platforms, making it easier). But I'm open for suggestions for new ones!

I have an iphone, I'd try it. Cute robot.

Good I'm just tryin to get in the aknoledgements jk. But what are your view on adds it can really get your ratings down but will help you pay for better editors like the iPhone game kit it may look familiar to you because all those graphics were in Forest Of Doom.

I plan to make one free, add-supported version and one, 1dollar version without adds..

"iPhone game kit" looks like just a guide to use cocos2d, the game engine I'm already using, so I don't think I'll get that..

@doodler:
Thanks, I'll might contact you later.

iPhone sdk is free? I thought it was $99 per year, or is this a custom sdk?
Is it iPad compatible? Because my sister has that?
Is it a climb-up game like DoodleJump? Do you move him by tilting?
Uh, and I'll have the ad-free version. Too many times I get distracted by those.

They do come with graphics look at the app quexlor it's a demonstration app of what you can do with it.

Pm me when it first comes out I wanna be the first person to support you get lunch or something.

You don't need to pay to develop games, but to submit to appstore you need to pay the 99dollar/year fee, which I've already got.

Yeah cocos2d works for all idevices.

You move him by holding your finger on the side of the screen you ant him to move towards..

Thanks, I'll tell you when it's completed and accepted by appstore!

You need to pay the people at the iPhone game kit for premmision to use there graphics.

Well I make my own graphics

Now that I said it it seems pretty stupid if anyone would it be you.

Great for you.
You already got the fee? dang you must be filthie rich! Sorry, but when I found out about the fee I had nightmares. because unless the app sells very well you are stuck.
I actaully tried my hand at creating my PSP homebrew once, but it fell apart after a few tries. maybe when I know more about homebrew I'll try.
I've actually made some games in Game Maker and RPG Maker because they require no knowledge of coding

Well, 99 dollars isn't that much. Like two computer games or something.

ObjectiveC was pretty dang complicated though, I'm still really confused, but I just try until I get it working, and try to remember what I did..

Don't do my mistake, paying the fee before you are sure that you can make a game. Instead, try it out and test it in the iphone simulator included with xcode, then when you have a game working, pay the fee..

Duely noted.
It shames me to say this, but the value of the rupee is so less that 99 dollars sound like the song of cute birds in the morning.
If Nintendo eShop accepts usermade games I might make 3DS Dink into a downloadable game on there for.... $4 sounds reasonable? Might have to bring Seth some royalties

If you are using freeDink you need to give it away for free , it's open source, and if you use the old dink it's illegal anyways...

And that what's makes it fun.

looks awesome IPD! I dont have an idevice of any sort, only my sis lol, ill try to convince her to buy it

I'll get my friends to get it I'll hit up a mass message on Facebook.

Thanks guys! ^^

You're welcome.
Is it like FallDink?

This isn't just me being cheap. One way to make better money is for a week make the app free an then people will get the app and speed the word and then there freinds buy the payed version. Then you release the free version.

"Is it like FallDink?"

Kiiiiiind of.. but not as laggy, without the messed up difficulty and with power-ups..

Mrgantoe
Thanks, I'll consider it

There's one other money making method but I can't put my finger on it I'll get back to you.

And the Dink Network has given me yet another reason to buy an iPhone.

Or an iPod touch. It's cheaper.

And better.

Yep I think I'll plus one that DD.

How on Earth is an iPod Touch better than an iPhone, DD?

Just put skype on the iPod and it's a phone + iPod supports java does iPhone if so nevermind.

Just put skype on the iPod and it's a phone

If you have wifi access.

Ugh the truth kills dinkulm the truth kills.

And in this day and age, who doesn't have Wi-Fi?
But to answer SabreTrout's question, since I'm more of a gaming person than a calling person, I don't use the phone in the iPhone.
I have an iPod Touch 4 and an iPhone 3GS, and the former is slimmer, lighter, better shaped and better suited to my needs (games!) while the latter is heavier, too rounded, and gets too hot quickly (maybe it's the weather?)

And in this day and age, who doesn't have Wi-Fi?

I have it at home and at work, but not everywhere I go.

"And in this day and age, who doesn't have Wi-Fi?"

You are so spoiled
I've heard only 10% of the Pakistanis are internet users.

Well only 10% of Pakistanis have enough money to feed themselves. I feel so lucky Our President sucks, he is a thief, a real trussed-up she dog who lives on his people's money.

I hear a Nixon theam coming on here.

Originally posted by DinkDoodler:
And in this day and age, who doesn't have Wi-Fi?

I don't.

I don't have mobile phone reception, either.

FreeDink is under the GNU GPL license, which means that as a developer:
- you can make a modified version under the same license (the nds port)
- you must provide the source code for your new version, and instructions on how to recompile it
- you can charge for the application, though people may make gratis copies and share it

So, if you charge $4 for the port:
- your users may share it and re-post it on the Dink Network for free
- your users must be able to get the source code and recompile it if needed, e.g. to make further improvements

The spririt of the GPL is that we end-users always retain full control on the applications we use

Yay me!

Pakistan is one of those countries where 10% of the population are filthy rich, and the rest 90% are dying. I think those 10% should be ashamed of buying crap for themselves when they should be giving money to the poor.

Well, if you count 10% as the government, then yes.
Our President is a real fraud. Even the people who are filtie rich are in difficulties because of a lack of electricity.
Anyway, my dad is awesome, he feeds poor people many times, and he even treats his patients for free if they can't afford it.

Ok, I know there are many people here that are more knowledge than me in the english language, because, well you live in an English-speaking country. I'd like to reach out to those of you for some help.

I would like you to read this following text and point out spelling mistakes, bad grammar, and sentences that could be formulated in a better way (without making it longer).

This is Hover Droid.

It’s up to you to keep him on the screen for as long as possible so that he doesn’t get lost in the 
endless emptyness of space. 

To control Hover Droid, simply hold the side of the screen you want him to move towads with your thumb.

To help you there are two kinds of bonuses for you to collect.

			This will give you 5 points
			
			This will slow down the 	 
			speed of the platforms,
 			making it easier for 
			Hover Droid to survive.

Good luck, and happy Hovering!

Looks good to me.

towads

Should be towards. Other than that it looks fine as far as I can tell.

EDIT: Not sure if it was a mistake, but the first powerup description has no period, and the second one does.

Thanks pilly, fixed those things.

Also changed emptyness into emptiness, that was stupid of me >.<

To be really picky, you never use a comma before 'and'. ---> < , and>
<To help you, there> I would also add a comma to that sentence.

I am impressed with IPD's English - really good!

sentence*

looks up at pilly lol - fixed, thanks
The spellchecker on my posts doesn't work, as in I never see the little red lines I used to when I first started here, so those puppies often slip by me
*sigh* I miss my spellchecker ...

To be really picky, you never use a comma before 'and'.

Ummm, yes you do, if it joins two independent clauses, like it does there. o.O

Umm... and according to grammar it should be 'happy hovering' instead of 'happy Hovering', but it is still right, in a way.
I was gonna be the first person to point out 'towads' and 'emptyness' but my router betrayed me.

hmm all my english writing classes said it was a no no :I

This could be a British English vs. American English thing.

Yeah, it is a big no no (uh.. what?)
I favour British English.

'Sackery what I thought Weird how we both have so called English -yet they're both different - like you lot use z's and we use s's in some words. Ah well

Hmm, I've been looking on Google for a British rule like that, and the only one I've seen is that they normally leave out the comma before "and" when it's the last item in a series, as in "apples, oranges and bananas."

Grammatical rules are for the weak! IIRC, we were taught in school that you should never start a sentence with words like "but" or "and"... But I didn't listen.

I think that, if you have a good grasp of a language, you can tell what looks/sounds good, and should unconcern yourself with whatever some douchebag in a textbook decreed is the "right" way to construct a sentence.

i agree w/ scratchr grammer is for the week i mean if u no neone with a grasps of ENGLISH ot teach u u pic up on asentials am i rite? and i mean u gona hate on me for tipin liek tihs but im rollin like fred dearst lol

It would be cool to have Dink as a bonus character or unlocked by cheatcode, or even as a cameo appearance.

Could bring fame to us.

Yeah, I could use the platform dink-Dink

Would indeed be cool.

Well, it's not the fact that doesn't have proper grammar that bothers me. It's the fact that looks like something the cat vomited on the carpet that does.

Yeah, and maybe some people will buy Dink HD and join the DN.

Hey now - I have a handful of cats, and everything they heave up is so much more beautiful than that.