Category Archives: Developer Tips

Step by Step Guide on How to build your first Slider Puzzle game in Cocos2d for Android – Part 3

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Vykthur

In Part 1 of this tutorial series, you learned about creating a new Cocos2D for android project, adding sprites, scaling and positioning sprites. In Part 2, you learned more about generating and positioning the tiles for the slider puzzle, and … Continue reading →

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Handling Sound in Cocos2D for Android

Posted on March 7, 2014 by Vykthur

Screenshot credits from one of my games – Puzzbox Africa In many games, sound remains a vital component for achieving interactivity. You may need to play short sound clips in response to events e.g when a button is pressed, a … Continue reading →

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5 Things to Know Before/While You Learn Laravel (and try to put it on Windows Azure)

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Vykthur

Laravel –   a clean and classy framework for PHP web development. Alert (Article meant for Laravel/OO PHP Framework beginners .. advanced code ninja’s may pass). So I decided to work on a short project that utilizes the client server … Continue reading →

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Step by Step Guide on How to build your first Slider Puzzle game in Cocos2d for Android – Part 2

Posted on February 6, 2014 by Vykthur

In part 1 of the tutorial, we set up the game scene, added a couple of labels to keep track of game status , amount of time elapsed and number of moves. And we made the timer start counting to … Continue reading →

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Help I’m a Student, How Can I Become a Rockstar Programmer ?

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Vykthur

“Programmers hardly ever get jealous on encountering “beautiful” code. Instead we admire, we complement and promote. In the midst of this flurry of altruistic feelings, we must continually benchmark our proficiency and will ourselves to higher levels of beautiful code … Continue reading →

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Summary of Blackberry Jam Asia Pre-Conference Training – Gaming Destination

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Vykthur

Pratik Supra .. Blackberry Dev Consultant on Game pad support for BB10 Games. Blackberry Asia Jam Conference Hong Kong For those not familiar with it, Blackberry Jam Conferences  are organised several times each year to provide an opportunity for the … Continue reading →

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How to Slide a Sprite around based on touch/drag input in Cocos2D for Android

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Vykthur

This post is written in response to a question on Part 1 of the Building your first slider puzzle game in Cocos2D for Android. How do you slide/drag a large image sprite around the screen based on touch/drag input ? … Continue reading →

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Step by Step Guide on How to build your first Slider Puzzle game in Cocos2d for Android – Part 1

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Vykthur

In the previous post about setting up cocos2d for android game development, I showed you how to import the cocos2d project into Eclipse and run the sample code included to give an idea of the capabilities/affordances of the Cocos2d game … Continue reading →

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Google Announces Cloud Challenge! $20,000 is the prize !

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Vykthur

Once again, Google is organizing a Coding Challenge to encourage developers from different regions to use their new Cloud APIs in developing innovative web apps! Suffice it to say, the rewards are COOL. And real too. Finalists from each category … Continue reading →

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Setting up Cocos2D for Android, in Eclipse

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Vykthur

… This post is meant to help you set up your first Cocos2D Android Project. Note : The Cocos2D for Android project using in my tutorials are a JAVA port of the Cocos2d-x project written in C/C++ . If you … Continue reading →

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