Boxplode prototype on the iPhone
Jan. 5th, 2011 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnI've got a game running on the iPhone now (through the slight abuse of an Apple developer account from work). This is Boxplode from last year, which I had stopped working on when I realized how good a mobile game it would make - with Clickteam's iPhone exporter now well on its way, I've been converting it over from its original version and it's already looking pretty workable.
The game's heart, the detection of blocks to destroy and everything, remained exactly the same - what I did to convert it amounted to halving the horizontal size to fit it on the screen, reworking the way that levels were stored and loaded to avoid the use of List objects or the String Parser (creating an editor for them along the way, so that step is much easier now) and changing the controls to make more sense for a touch screen.
Now all it needs is a heap of levels, some presentation improvement, and for me to get my head around the mathematics of doing a touch scroll menu.
The game's heart, the detection of blocks to destroy and everything, remained exactly the same - what I did to convert it amounted to halving the horizontal size to fit it on the screen, reworking the way that levels were stored and loaded to avoid the use of List objects or the String Parser (creating an editor for them along the way, so that step is much easier now) and changing the controls to make more sense for a touch screen.
Now all it needs is a heap of levels, some presentation improvement, and for me to get my head around the mathematics of doing a touch scroll menu.
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Date: 2011-01-06 01:16 am (UTC)2) Nice control scheme! It looks so intuitive, just running your thumb/finger across in the direction you want the blocks to explode, and shaking it to start over... brilliant. I do worry that the blocks might be a little too small for easy navigation, though.
3) Interesting ending. Was it supposed to be a full stop to mark the end of the video, or am I reading too much into things?
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Date: 2011-01-06 01:43 am (UTC)The size of the blocks was something I had wondered about - it looks more difficult than it is in this video because I had to stretch my thumb over and half-look at what I was filming at the same time, but I haven't had problems while using my finger as you would normally. (Fatter fingers than mine are not guaranteed to have the same ease of use.) I was more worried about the sensitivity of the shaking, but I think I've got it to a point that's reasonable now, where you don't reset accidentally but it's not like carrying a lit stick of dynamite either.
And I'm actually wondering how many people in the wider community who watch this will comment on that :) But honestly, if they don't know that about me already, they're not going to pick it up from this.