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iUridium Source v1.1 released!

I am happy to announce that version 1.1 of iUridium source is released and can be found at this page. This update reflects app update as is submitted to App Store.

Changes introduced in this version:
* Significant improvement of Manta turn on movement
* Set sound and music on by default
* Fixed app crashing on iOS 3.x
* Fixed some smaller bugs

For all buyers of previous versions: updated version is available and update links have been sent to your email! .


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iUridium v1.1 update available on App Store

iUridium v1.1 includes the following:
– Improved Manta turn on movement
– Smaller bug fixes
– Set music and sound on by default
– Solved game crashing on iOS 3.x

Enjoy! Stay tuned, more improvements coming in following weeks.


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iUridium v1.0 released to App Store!

Hurray! iUridium finally available on the App Store! Have a fun!


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iUridium Source v1.0 released!

I am happy to announce that version 1.0 of iUridium source is released and can be found at this page. This is first major final version of iUridium as is submitted to App Store.

Changes introduced in this version:
* Includes completed first 5 levels of iUridium game
* Redesigned handling of XML files
* Added IntroGame Scene
* Added Pause Layer
* Bug fixing and performance improvements
* Cleaning the code

For all buyers of previous versions: updated version is available and update links are sent to your email! .


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How to animate spots on Tilemap

This issue gave me a lot of headache, so just want to share it with you. If may help you, I will be more then happy 😉

I have a large parallax background and just wanted to animate one spot on my map. What I needed you can see in iUridium video at this link (blinking hatch on Dreadnought map for spawning Torpedos). What I’ve used are Tiled and Zwoptex tools, but I can assume using other tools should make not much difference. In this procedure I asume you are familiar with these tools. So, what I did is as follows:

1. First, I have used some graphical editor and created animated frames (images) for the blinking hatch (actually, just changed the hatch color)

2. Then, I have used Zwoptex to create Texture Atlas containing animated frames (saved it as “blinkframes.plist”)

3. Using Tiled I created new Tileset with newly made Texture Atlas

4. I have created new Tilemap layer (let us call it “Blink”)

5. I selected initial image from my new Tileset and put it on new Layer on position where blinking hatch should appear

6. The most important, I have used following code to load Texture Atlas:

  1. [[CCSpriteFrameCache sharedSpriteFrameCache] addSpriteFramesWithFile:
  2.                     @"blinkframes.plist" texture:[tileMap layerNamed:@"Blink"].texture];

7. For animation, I have used standard way to animate hatch on my map (of course, do not forget to use SpriteFrames from Texture Atlas):

  1. float animationSpeed = 0.25;
  2. NSMutableArray *animationArray = [NSMutableArray array];
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  4. [animationArray addObject: [[CCSpriteFrameCache sharedSpriteFrameCache] spriteFrameByName:@"blink1.png"]];
  5. [animationArray addObject: [[CCSpriteFrameCache sharedSpriteFrameCache] spriteFrameByName:@"blink2.png"]];
  6. [animationArray addObject: [[CCSpriteFrameCache sharedSpriteFrameCache] spriteFrameByName:@"blink3.png"]];
  7.  
  8. CCAnimation *animation = [CCAnimation animationWithName:@"animation" delay:animationSpeed frames:animationArray];
  9. CCAction *action = [CCRepeatForever actionWithAction:[CCAnimate actionWithAnimation:animation restoreOriginalFrame:NO]];
  10.  
  11. CCTMXLayer *layer = [tileMap layerNamed:@"Blink"];
  12. CGPoint position = CGPointMake(9.0f, 8.0f);
  13.  
  14. CCSprite *tile = (CCSprite*) [layer tileAt:position];
  15. [tile runAction:action];

And, that’s it. I hope I was clear enough in this post, if not feel free to comment it.

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iUridium Source v0.9.1 released!

From now on, you can buy iUridium source code! Accelerate your development time learning iPhone, iPod, and iPad game development from entire source code of real iPhone game. Learn Objective-C advanced principles, cocos2d, how to integrate Twitter, Facebook, Game Center, and iAd and many many things more… Get iUridium source code and save hours and hours of your work and studying!

Version 0.9.1 is initial source code version and includes complete iUridium game with all features including first 2 levels. By purchasing iUridium source code you are automatically subscribed for all subsequent releases in next 6 month with new releases at least once per month. Plan to release final 1.0 version which will be submitted to AppStore is till end of October.

Find all details on this page!.


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