I’m really happy and excited that YETIPIPI was released today in the iOS App Store! 
UPDATE: currently only available in german App Store due to delayed english localization.
Go grab it for $.99 (€.89) try it out and give it it’s (hopefully) deserved 5-Star review.
What’s the game about?
YETIPIPI was a contract project in collaboration with Doubleplus Digital Media Entertainment for Joscha Sauer. Joscha is one of germany’s most popular cartoonists and the mastermind behind the Nichtlustig cartoons (some of his cartoons are also available in english).
The game is inspired by one particularly famous comic strip, where a Yeti pees in a circle, leaving him (or in this case both) stranded in an unfortunate situation.
To survive, our Yeti must drink so he can pee the ice floes floating about in ever smaller pieces. You control the Yeti with the accelerometer to collect items, evade ice floes and to aim your stream of urine. Continue reading »
Today I’d like to present you a long post made by Markus Nigrin about How to spice up your Game with Particle Effects. He talks about how to use particle effects in your Cocos2D game to, well, great effect. Of course he is using Particle Designer, and he was amazed how few people at the 360iDev event knew about PD. So I thought it can’t hurt to mention it one more time.
Markus’ blog is generally well worth taking some time and digging deeper. He has a post on adding a “News” text (or image) into your game and what effect it can have for marketing and how he got back into programming after 15 years of being a manager, and partially inspired by Ray Wenderlich‘s iPhone Programming 101 class held at 360iDev.
Back on the topic of particle effects, I recently created a very simple but very effective snow storm effect. You can check it out in Particle Designer’s shared effects list (it’s called “SnowStorm”) or download the SnowStorm effect in the Cocos2D plist format. There’s also a shared “PeeFX” effect that I created, subtitled “stream of urine”. Those are from a project I’m currently working on. Hmmm … pee and snow?
Keep guessing. 😉
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