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My first Tizen store approved game

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Its a pleasing experience to get something on the stores, which are more stricter or unknown. Being said that, it is exciting when something is out of the doors from those stores. It was the same feeling for me when my first Apple store approval has happened.
So the game which was written for iOS devices is modified to fit in all the platforms and released. The original “catch them all” game is ported to all the platforms with the help of OpenFL and HAXE. The name has been changed to “Catch Them All E”, “E” is for everywhere.
First, it was for the Tizen App Store and the wait. Its not much but have to wait for 3 days and finally its approved and available in the Store. Thats such a nice experience and could not have been possible without Joshua.

Well, then I did some modifications and ported it to HTML5. Though, OpenFL directly provides conversion, there are still things to consider while developing for different platforms. This version is available here.

Not too far behind, I ported it to iOS and submitted Apple store. Well it took 7 days and its on the Apple App store too.

I must say, without OpenFL and HAXE I could not have achieved all this.

StartUp : Geek Mentors

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It’s very exciting to see these people at geek mentors doing a nice job porting angrybirds to a local version.
Flash is not always about flashplayer, its much more than that if we really follow the philosophy of Flash community. These guys at this startup began their career in Flash, but as of any cool dude in Flash, they always tried to push the technology and dove into new platforms for the learning and broadening the horizon. They are hungry for technology and fun, both at once.
The momentum is always there for fun and learn new things all the time. The work never seem to be complete but then they never seem to rest ;) that does not mean they are working under pressure, that means simply they keep on working for what they love. Apart from developing games for Apple appstore, there is a quality mentoring option for people who want to learn things the fun way by doing it. The best part is there is no project manager to manage you, come to work and do it by how you want to do.
There is a heavy investment on new technology learnings. When the world was fighting for whether to Html5 or Flash, this new startup solely concentrate on GameSalad. A solid platform for publishing your games to IPhone, iPad and even HTML5. The point is if there is a tool which can produce quality applications, why fight over how many lines of code one need to write in a particular platform!
GameSalad link for Angry Anna : http://www.angryanna.com/
The content below is kind of an interview with the company

Introduction of the team :
Mohd Shah Nawaz : Co-Founder,
Mohd Faisal: Co-Founder,
Himanshu Himthani: Art Director,
Abhishek Chawla: Production Lead.
Ajay Joshi: Educational Advisor
Experience till now : Don’t know what to write…..
Vision : At Geek Mentors Studios, our vision is to be the best company in the world–in the eyes of our customers, shareholders, communities, Employees and people.

Wishing the team all the best.

Lua : My experience with it.

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Well, on my journey with mobile development, I picked up Lua for sometime. I am quite impressed with its simplicity and power. If you do not know, Corona SDK provides Lua scripting language to build applications for mobile devices. The popular Angrybirds game utilises the power of Lua.
Basically its a simple language with very minimum number of key words and language syntaxes. Anyone familiar with javascript or actionscript can start jumping into it and be productive from day one. There are variants of the installer for Mac and Windows. Some what I feel Windows installer is the best and has got its own IDE, which is on top of popular SciTE IDE.
There is a complete 2D game engine / framework for Lua named Love. With that one can instantly start creating Lua games. As Lua is simple, so as Love is. But then one gets a whole lot of goodies out of a framework. I would say a must try for any game developer.
There is a nice framework for iPhone, which uses Lua and its called WAX. This also fits Lua’s philosophy as to keep the framework simple and easy. The best part is, once you start coding in WAX, you do not have to think about memory management, which is very important and sometimes most time consuming act, while developing application with ObjectiveC.
Now that I have seen Lua’s power and simplicity, I will try that out more and more and post updates about my experiments. Here are some Lua related links for you to get used to
1. Users, tutorials and more
2. Love : 2D game engine
3. WAX : iOS development framework
4. 2D Engine A 2D game engine (I Have not tried yet)
5. Luxinia 3D game engine (I have not tried yet)
6. Lua Forge Projects, tutorials and more
7. Baja Engine A game engine (I have not tried yet)

With that I think I also have to pick up some engines and start playing with it. Overall, Lua feels just perfect as its simplicity and power. Its portable and lightweight. After all its Opensource and Free.

My second iphone game

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CatchThemAllV0.1.0

Just finished my second iphone game. While I have not tested it on device yet!!

My first iphone game was taking the accelerometer into game play and this game is all about multi-touch. While it is quite straight forward to play, but it holds the ability of being engaging and addictive.

The game play is to choose the color which is displayed maximum times on screen. There are only 5 colours, but then one has to count the number of times. There is a simple counter runs to show how much time one is spending in a particular question. If the counter reaches 1000, the question changes to the next question and the player looses one point. The interesting part of the same is, each of the colours is assigned a different touch input. That means, if the player has to choose a particular colour, he/she may have to touch with 3 fingers, similarly there are 2 finger touch, 4 finger touch etc are available.
The game play is going to be interesting if you are trying out in device, on the simulator, its a waste and boring thing.
Hope, I will test it soon with a real device and come up with my first experience with it.

Code is hosted at Github and the direct location is here.

Happy Gaming :)

My opensource iphone game now supports accelerometer

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I have made some improvements since my last post about the game. The game (Math Is Fun 2) now supports accelerometer. The new version of the game is having below mentioned additions and updations to it.

1. Accelerometer support ( The game mode is now changed by changing phone’s direction )
2. A counter is added ( Which changes question in every 1000 count )
3. Game now displays, total questions played ( asked )
4. Total number of correct answers given by user is displayed
5. Total number of wrong answers given by user is displayed

The code is on GitHub and licensed under Unlicense.

My first iphone game goes opensource

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I have recently finished an iphone game. This is written in Sparrow framework. I have decided to make it opensource and so put it up on github at this link. The game is very simple and is licensed under Unlicense. So there is no restriction as to how to use the code. You can use it to make money or what so ever as this licensing does not force you to do anything you do not need to do.
About the game, its a simple game of Mathematics for small kids. There are options for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Choose your type to play and go ahead playing it. There is no score, no time limit. The responses are immediate. So one will know whether correct or incorrect answer.
While I am developing on it too. Will love to see what others can do with it. This can be seen as code example for the Sparrow framework as well.