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Re: Show HN: My first iPhone game – after 18 months of work

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Post by chrisBob » Thu, Jul 31, 2014, 12:23 PM UTC

benolds wrote: post #28

orta wrote: post #26

I played this till level 20, enjoyed it. Tried to buy it but the app crashes when you hit the buy button on iOS8 betas.

uh oh! Thanks for letting me know - I wasn't able to test it on iOS8 - I'll check it out and try to fix it ASAP.

Don't worry too much. The beta releases often contain bugs themselves, and there is a good chance it is not a problem with your app. If you have a chance to test it then you should, but bugs in a beta often get cleaned up by apple with no changes required on your part.

Re: Show HN: My first iPhone game – after 18 months of work

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Post by benolds » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 3:07 AM UTC

arodceo wrote: post #30

Did you learn iOS at college? Was it your first programming language you learned? I like concept of the game (downloaded it). Pretty good for your first game (even though it took 1.5 yrs).

Thanks! I taught myself to code in high school, mostly by messing around with little Flash game experiments with Actionscript. In my senior year of high school I taught myself Objective-C and built an iPad app for a summer internship (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/north-star-smart-stars-surve...). I didn't learn iOS game programming specifically until college, where I participated in a one-month class/competition that taught the Cocos2d game engine.

Re: Show HN: My first iPhone game – after 18 months of work

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Post by benolds » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 3:08 AM UTC

chrisBob wrote: post #31

benolds wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

uh oh! Thanks for letting me know - I wasn't able to test it on iOS8 - I'll check it out and try to fix it ASAP.

Don't worry too much. The beta releases often contain bugs themselves, and there is a good chance it is not a problem with your app. If you have a chance to test it then you should, but bugs in a beta often get cleaned up by apple with no changes required on your part.

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks :)

Re: Show HN: My first iPhone game – after 18 months of work

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Post by arodceo » Sat, Aug 09, 2014, 12:49 AM UTC

benolds wrote: post #32

arodceo wrote: post #30

Did you learn iOS at college? Was it your first programming language you learned? I like concept of the game (downloaded it). Pretty good for your first game (even though it took 1.5 yrs).

Thanks! I taught myself to code in high school, mostly by messing around with little Flash game experiments with Actionscript. In my senior year of high school I taught myself Objective-C and built an iPad app for a summer internship ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/north-star-smart-stars-surve... ). I didn't learn iOS game programming specifically until college, where I participated in a one-month class/competition…

That's awesome. Is there an email I could reach you at? Any tips for beginner? I'm very interested in learning ios.