Archive for April, 2010

Falling Space Rocks has been approved and is on the App Store.

Check out the games section to view more information about the game and view the game play footage.

It was quite the process… but I have finally submitted my first iPhone game to the App Store.

The process required the creation of many certificates, device provisioning, application signing, and a slew of other technical nitty-gritty details!

Now we play the waiting game…

Reflecting on the process:
It was a lot of fun creating my first iPhone game and I learned a lot about how to program for Apple devices. I was also able to learn about the Cocos2D framework which really helped me get straight to programming the content of the game and not having to fuss about the framework.

I did a lot of things wrong throughout the process, causing me to start over a few times.  It took 5 months in total (in my spare time) to get the game up and running from not knowing Objective – C,  to having an application submitted for review.

I am already looking forward to the next project, and I don’t think it will take me as long to get it up and running.   I am hoping to use the BOX2D or Chipmunk physics system which should add an interesting element to the game, I just don’t have any good and original ideas yet…  must do some serious thinking on this one before I start to develop anything…

Once the game is accepted and on the Store, I’ll release the game play footage and provide a link to where you can download it and play it yourselves!

Today I was integrating Lightbox 2 into my wordpress instance which caused a conflict between the Prototype and JQuery namespaces.

… I made it sound like I knew what the problem was right away, but it did take me some troubleshooting to figure out the issues.

JQuery has an awesome ability to change it’s namespace from the usual ‘$’ to any variable you want with one simple line of code:
var JQ = jQuery.noConflict();

Now, instead of calling $(“myDiv”).doSomething(); I call JQ(“myDiv”).doSomething();

Worked like a charm!