Second game went live

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• atilim Maintainer

  March 2012 edited March 2012

  congratulations! I like the game and the music. <:-P
  
  
  btw, there is a problem with brookspenland.com right now.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• gorkem Maintainer

  March 2012

  Congrats! :-)
  
  "Get the music" link goes the iTunes by the way
  

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• pmanna Member

  March 2012

  @atilim Yes, site is down for maintenance now
  @gorkem thanks for the heads up, I'll correct it as soon as I have a chance, at least it won't need to go through a review…

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• OZApps Guru

  March 2012

  @pmanna, Congrats on both the second game and the Joustin case...

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• OZApps Guru

  March 2012

  ...and BTW, was this game a form of barter? surprisingly the client that you made this game for is a Lawyer

  twitter: @ozapps | http://www.oz-apps.com | http://howto.oz-apps.com | http://reviewme.oz-apps.com
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• phongtt Guru

  March 2012

  koool!!!

  Greetings from Vietnam. We are mobile game/app development studio. Gideros/Unity/Cocos2d-x

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• pmanna Member

  March 2012

  @OZApps That's strange, I know (and that's why I was joking about), but no, the two things are actually disconnected: they also have a "regular" iPad app for lawyers, so they're not new to the app world.

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• techdojo Guru

  March 2012

  Interesting little simon game - ran fairly well on my very low spec phone, I like the alternative sounds (although maybe the touch areas could be bit bigger), however I was wondering why are all the permissions required?
  
  SD Storage and Network Comms I get (save options & ad support), but is the location required for ad targetting? and why should the app require the ability to read my phone state and identity?
  
  Can you select which permissions you want when exporting a project to Android?
  
  Also if you you don't mind me asking which ad provider did you use and what was involved in adding ad support to your app?
  
  

  WhiteTree Games - Home, home on the web, where the bits and bytes they do play!
  #MakeABetterGame! "Never give up, Never NEVER give up!" - Winston Churchill

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• pmanna Member

  March 2012

  @techdojo You're right, most of the permissions have nothing to do with the game but are required by the ad networks: I've used AdWhirl, and the publisher chose the networks to implement (where one had that puzzling "phone state" requirement).
  
  Having no direct support to ads in Gideros, I've added them at the next level, i.e. Objective-C for iOS and Java for Android: while I had experience with the first, it's taken some time to get how the things should work with Activities, Layouts, manifests and the like, but at least I could try (that wouldn't have been possible with other frameworks).
  

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• atilim Maintainer

  March 2012

  Just a guess but the phone state may be required to get a unique ID of the phone.
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  March 2012

  @pmanna how about sharing a tutorial on that? On both paltforms preferably.

  Likes: chipster123, gorkem

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• techdojo Guru

  March 2012

  Thanks for the info, I agree a tutorial would be most useful however the permissions thing might put some people off thinking there might be malware in your app - a friend of mine makes a point of NOT downloading anything which has permissions which he doesn't feel should be required (especially for games).

  WhiteTree Games - Home, home on the web, where the bits and bytes they do play!
  #MakeABetterGame! "Never give up, Never NEVER give up!" - Winston Churchill

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• pmanna Member

  March 2012 edited March 2012

  @ar2rsawseen Documentation is an art, and one I'm not very skilled at… :-(
  What I can do is set one of the sample projects up with ads, on both platforms, and post it here: if someone else can help writing things down, I can certainly give any info to make it work!

  Likes: avo, chipster123, gorkem

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  March 2012

  @pmanna completely understand that. Screencasts are also good for this type of tutorials

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  March 2012 edited March 2012

  Is IOS version already available? Let us know when it is.

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• pmanna Member

  March 2012

  In review, so it will take a few more days: will certainly post it here.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  March 2012

  Still nothing from Apple?
  
  First tutorial done: http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Gideros-Implementing-AdMob-for-Android
  
  Thanks to pmanna

  Likes: gorkem, GregBUG, andron, mysps

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• pmanna Member

  March 2012

  @ar2rsawseen We've found some issues with "the new iPad"(™ ?), so the binaries are back to review.
  

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• pmanna Member

  March 2012

  Game is now live (at last!) on the App Store as well.
  
  http://itunes.apple.com/app/start!-free/id508178438?ls=1&mt=8

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