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How to Make a Game Like Cut the Rope – Part 1

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Post by PopaL » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 5:55 PM UTC

How to Make a Game Like Cut the Rope – Part 1
raywenderlich.com

Re: How to Make a Game Like Cut the Rope – Part 1

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Post by StavrosK » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 6:33 PM UTC

While this appears to be a very valuable tutorial, I'm a bit worried about what "like Cut the Rope" implies. You can't get that level of polish without putting thousands of man-hours into it, so I'm afraid it's a bit like those "learn to draw an owl" memes:

1. Draw a circle.

2. Draw the rest of the fucking owl.

Re: How to Make a Game Like Cut the Rope – Part 1

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Post by Rhino55 » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 6:42 PM UTC

At first I mistook it for http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/432872

Which is an entirely different game.

Re: How to Make a Game Like Cut the Rope – Part 1

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Post by 4ourbit » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 6:47 PM UTC

Me just starting a project on a strategic board game, I was wondering if there is any active development for Android regarding the cocos2d sdk? I only found two seemingly discontinued projects on Google Code. Is a dedicated game framework helpful in this case with no background in game programming but some expertise in the Java portions of Android?

Re: How to Make a Game Like Cut the Rope – Part 1

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Post by barranger » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 7:01 PM UTC

While it's a great tutorial, I was kind of hoping it was in regards to the HTML5 version

Re: How to Make a Game Like Cut the Rope – Part 1

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Post by vshade » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 7:01 PM UTC

4ourbit wrote: post #4

Me just starting a project on a strategic board game, I was wondering if there is any active development for Android regarding the cocos2d sdk? I only found two seemingly discontinued projects on Google Code. Is a dedicated game framework helpful in this case with no background in game programming but some expertise in the Java portions of Android?

I'm working on a project using cocos2d-x, which is multiplatform, althouugh we still need to make it work on android. If you are doing android only, you can try using the Andengine, at a previous working location we remade our ios cocos2d game for android using it. If you already have a cocos2d game maybe you should look at the stellaSDK(www.yeecco.com/stella)

Re: How to Make a Game Like Cut the Rope – Part 1

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Post by TillE » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 7:03 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #2

While this appears to be a very valuable tutorial, I'm a bit worried about what "like Cut the Rope" implies. You can't get that level of polish without putting thousands of man-hours into it, so I'm afraid it's a bit like those "learn to draw an owl" memes: 1. Draw a circle. 2. Draw the rest of the fucking owl.

A tutorial isn't really where you'd learn that level of craft.

This seems like a perfectly decent game dev introduction for iOS, though.

Re: How to Make a Game Like Cut the Rope – Part 1

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Post by Jagat » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 7:04 PM UTC

Is there a similar tutorial for Android? As in what's the best hands on tutorial for Android app development?

Re: How to Make a Game Like Cut the Rope – Part 1

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Post by OzzyOsbourne » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 7:26 PM UTC

Ray Wenderlich's website is a very valuable source of information for incipient iOS devs. A search:

http://www.google.co.za/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ub...

yields his website as the first few links.

Kudos to this guy for giving a head start to plenty of indie and starting game devs. I can attest to this as I used Cocos2D to produce my iOS game (since pulled because I have been too occupied this year to hack on iOS: last year of high school = major pressure to do well; very competitive environment). But this is beside the point: Wenderlich's tutorials are awesome, well-written and comprehensive. They won't get you production ready games in a flash, but they sure do help.

From an Indie point of view, iOS game development is considerably more accessible than Android game development by virtue of the following facts:

* Cocos2D is a robust, free and easy-to-use environment; a fully-functional, stable, Android analogue does not exist.

* iOS code is 99% universal (just works on all devices) whereas Android code really isn't. For instance: OpenGL sample code from the Android development guides (http://developer.android.com/training/graphics/opengl/index....) does not work on 2 of 4 android devices I've tried it on because it targets deprecated API's and methods which are unusable using the newest SDK versions (it was version 14 or 15 at the time; largely unimportant). Imagine how disheartening, demotivating and demoralising it is to see that "official Google endorsed code" just doesn't work.

* I have personally tried AndEngine and Cocos2D for Android. Neither is up to scratch with iOS Cocos2D.

tl;dr Ray Wenderlich is indirectly responsible for a ton of Indie games on the App Store, should be thanked, and no, an equal (easy-to-use portable, robust, _decent_ framework) doesn't exist for android (though there may be analogues).

edit: formatting

Re: How to Make a Game Like Cut the Rope – Part 1

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Post by king_magic » Tue, Jul 31, 2012, 7:26 PM UTC

This looks fantastic. Excited to see where it leads. I would have loved something like this when I first set out to learn Cocos2D and Box2D. I went through weeks of trial and error before really figuring things out, and this would have been a great primer.

Really nice job.