Line-Drawing Game Starterkit

All Starterkit project artwork provided by Arezou Ipakchi Design. Promotional images created by Justin from CartoonSmart.

What it is:

Get a head-start for your Line-Drawing game and save days if not weeks of your time! You’ll get gameplay code modelled after the extremely popular Flight Control game. You’ll learn how to draw lines, detect touches on objects, have objects follow a path - and much, much more! Written by a professional game developer and game industry veteran (me) the source code is annotated with lots of comments explaining my rationale and written with readability in mind.

Contains separate iPhone & iPad targets!

The Starterkit includes targets for iPhone and iPad using the same code if you don’t want to create a Universal app, for example to reduce your app’s size or to be able to charge more for the iPad version. If the iPad Target is selected hi-res iPad images will be used. Image selection is done automatically by loading those images whose filenames have the “-ipad” suffix, the same suffix cocos2d uses.

What others are saying:

“Code is quite clearly written and decently documented […] definitely a fine investment.”
From: Commercial cocos2d Code review from Alex Curylo.

“It was an awesome moment when I found the source for a line draw game of this caliber.”
-Franklin Lyons, SpinFall

“Especially the path and movement system is saving me lots of headaches.”
-Martin Hoffmann

Games made with this Starterkit:

Launch Control

Ferries HD

Feature List:

• cleanly seperated and well-structured GameScene code design with a minimum of dependencies
• easy to add new objects and extend object parameters
• touch object & draw a path for it (whether it’s already following a path or not)
• path drawing ends when path is drawn over appropriate target location (eg airstrip for airplanes, respecting angle of approach)
• path drawing ends when arbitrary point limit is exceeded (to avoid slowdowns)
• path is drawn when dragged with thick transparent line style like Harbor Master, without glitches
• path is split into equal length pieces no matter how quickly user moves finger
• objects spawn outside screen, locations can be re-defined and extended
• objects display incoming warning marker at screen border
• objects display collision warning when any two of them are getting too close
• objects follow path to end - then fade out and increase score or continue moving
• objects always rotate in movement direction
• objects bounce back at screen borders
• motivational Labels for successful landings, precached
• Score and HighScore Labels
• HighScore saved to disk between play sessions
• supports both Landscape orientations with autorotation
• loads correct resource files depending on Target (iPhone or iPad)
• proper Pause handling for incoming calls, SMS
• many generally useful Math Helper functions included
• lots of comments explaining rationale and giving tips for improvement
• assertive coding style to help catch coding errors early on
• offline and online documentation
• you can choose between using cocos2d-iphone v1.1 and v2.0
• you can choose between using ARC or classic manual reference counting
• compatible with iOS 5.0 and newer, including iOS 6
• compatible with Xcode 4.6 (the most recent versions also work)
• easy setup: just unzip, open Xcode project, select build scheme, build and run

Questions? Need Help?

Just send me an email.

Legal Disclaimer

Cocos2D is a registered trademark of Ricardo Quesada. Steffen Itterheim, the Learn & Master Cocos2D website and the Line-Drawing Game Starterkit are neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Zynga or Ricardo Quesada.

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License Agreement

Copyright

Purchase grants you the License to use and modify the source code and assets under the following Terms and Conditions:

You are not allowed to make the source code publicly available. You are not allowed to give or sell the source code to others, modified or not. Licenses are not transferable.

All Licenses are royalty free. You can make as many free or commercial Apps using the source code as you want. You may re-use any existing assets in your App.

If you do contract work and have or want to give the Starterkit source code to your client, your client needs to purchase a Site License as well.

Site License

Each purchase grants you a Site License. The Site license grants you the use of the Starterkit without restrictions at one site.

A site is an office, building or living space rented or owned by the company or individual making the purchase. It allows anyone working on site to use and modify the Starterkit source code.

Large companies operating at several sites need to purchase a site license for each individual location if the Starterkit is to be used at multiple locations. Contact me if you’re such a corporation and you prefer a flat fee license with your own license text to go along with it.

Support

Updates to the Starterkit are done on an as needed basis. I will also keep it up to date and running with the latest stable releases of cocos2d. Updates are distributed via a download link sent to the email address you used for your order. If your email address ever changes please contact me, ideally you should forward me your order confirmation in that case to speed up the change.

Source Code not covered by this License

The licensed Source Code project contains files which are available for free and are governed by different licenses. The Terms & Conditions outlined here do not apply to source code files which do not contain the Copyright notice “Copyright (year) Steffen Itterheim. All rights reserved.”.

Disclaimer

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Questions? Contact me!

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