Comments on: Prefer Composition over Inheritance

By: Terence

Terence — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:17:55 +0000

Been putting together a really light component framework for Cocos2D.
Here is the blog post: http://bit.ly/hQFdii

By: Why Inheritance is sometimes Evil | Savetime On

Why Inheritance is sometimes Evil | Savetime On — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 06:00:02 +0000

[...] You did learn OOP and inheritance. Be carefull inheritance can be evil if abused see why: Prefer Composition over Inheritance [...]

By: Linkvent Calendar, Day 3: MVC with Cocos2D | Learn & Master Cocos2D Game Development

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:05:19 +0000

[...] MVC pattern is somewhat similar to a game object component system that I described here. For both systems, the general idea is not to subclass CCSprite and put your game logic in there. [...]

By: Composition vs. Inheritance « Ben Garney

Composition vs. Inheritance « Ben Garney — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:42:30 +0000

[...] by Ben Garney on June 12, 2010 Steffen Iterheim over at learn cocos2d posted a good article discussing the benefits of composition in games, and he linked the “Understanding Components” QuickTalk I did for PushButton [...]

By: GamingHorror

GamingHorror — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:20:54 +0000

The book is available as Alpha eBook directly from Apress:
http://apress.com/book/view/1430233036

By: Abdul

Abdul — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:58:18 +0000

Hi,

I am desperate to get this book as I see there are so many interesting topics about cocos2d. When i checked on Amazon about this book it shows that ” this book has not been released yet”. So I am confused that book has released it in stores or do i need to wait a long for this amazing book.

By: CCZSprite and HudLevelSprite, Two Cocos2D Extensions You Need to Know About | iPhone Game Kit

Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:03:27 +0000

[...] Objective C is a really nice language to extend because of its easy to use class categories and lack of multiple inheritance. So, when you find yourself challenged with something that goes beyond the game engine, just create [...]

By: AD

AD — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 06:48:11 +0000

Could you do a dedicated tutorial (perhaps including video) of how to do Bitmap fonts, and how to integrate them with UILabels, things of that nature?

One more thing, in some games cash is represented in a shorthand, so instead of $1,000,000 you get $1m, (other examples include 0.25k, 0.75k, 250k, etc) (similar to the way Sensible World of Soccer used to do it), do you have a knowledge base on how to best accomplish this?

Thanks

By: Composition vs. Inheritance – CoderHump.com

Composition vs. Inheritance – CoderHump.com — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:29:01 +0000

[...] Iterheim over at learn cocos2d posted a good article discussing the benefits of composition in games, and he linked the “Understanding Components” QuickTalk I did for PushButton [...]

By: Max

Max — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:53:09 +0000

Inheritance is very good for bureaucratic Java stuffs (: