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05
Feb
2010

Fun with cocosDenshion and Audio Metering [Update]

Lam

For those of you that have gotten a chance to use CocosDenshion, it is the sound engine written by Steve Oldmeadow.
It’s great since loading audio effects and music for us was quite a task beforehand.

Here’s a little demo of what we are going to make in this article shown running on the iPhone simulator.

Well today what we’ll look at is the CDAudioManager class of the CocosDenshion package itself and see if we can produce some neat effects to spice up our games.
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Posted in cocos2d • 24 Comments »

01
Feb
2010

ProgressTimer for cocos2d

Lam

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I will put my thoughts on game design concepts and ideas into words so for today let’s focus on a topic that I hope many games will use. A Loading indicator!

The problem at hand

Sometimes we will need to process data or have an in-game wait or delay. We can’t let users wait without any visual indication so generally we’ll implement a loading progress image. This simple concept is shown below.

If that’s what you are also aiming to do then read ahead!
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Tags: bar, cocos2d, indicator, loading, OpenGL, progress, radial, timer
Posted in cocos2d, OpenGL, Programming • 20 Comments »

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