List of 3D and Tile Effects CCActions and example video!

So I’m still working on my Cocos2D iBook (partially available here) , and I started looking around for a nice example page of some of the cooler 3D and Tile Effects CCAction’s that Cocos2D offers, and I came up a bit short. So what the heck, I might as well give the internet what I [...]

Pac-it-up! The final lesson on Box2D is available for download…

The final video of Session 4 of our iOS and Cocos2D tutorial series is now available!  In this video we modify our previous project in the session to create a gravity-less Box2D maze environment. Okay, obviously you can see from the image above its a mini Pac-man level. The fun things we explore in this [...]

Angry Ninjas Starter Kit updated for iPad 3 (hopefully)

Well I slept past the early store openings today so there goes my chances of getting an iPad 3 today (or for weeks probably). But I think I’ve got the Angry Ninjas iOS Starter Kit  retina-fied for the new iPad. It was actually pretty easy, what took a while was upgrading to Lion and installing the [...]

The Angry Ninjas Starter Kit is finally here!

She’s finally ready! Which some of you past buyers know already because you hopefully got the project file links a couple days ago. The videos guides are also available now, so be sure you download those as well. So yes, its done !  This latest Starter Kit was a fun one to make, and as [...]

And our second new multi-session course is…Optimizing Flash for iOS and Android Export

Jeremy Hicks’ new lesson is finally here! We teased it a few weeks back by uploading a lengthy preview on Vimeo , so our apologies to anyone waiting patiently for a while. But the wait was worth it, I think. He’s put 10 hours of screen time into this, and MORE is coming. At least one [...]

Preview of my Angry “Ninjas” Tutorial and Starter Kit

For those curious how the final project for session 4 of my iOS App Dev Course is coming along. Still to-do: Enemies to sling at and scoring. I’ll teach a lengthy tutorial and make a Starter Kit out of this when its all done…

Noteworthy update to the Wave Attack Game Template….

…you’ve already been emailed new links if you bought this Starter Kit or the iOS Development Series . The second Xcode template is now a spaceship type shooter game. So it adds a scrolling background, particle effect, more enemies, and a few other slight mods to the code. Also I JUST found out (like 10 [...]

Ebook Starter Kit now available as a standalone purchase (or free if…)

If you’ve already bought my iOS 6-Session tutorial course, your download link page now has a new zip for this Starter Kit. It includes many overview videos explaining how to setup this ebook (which you already knew if you watched the previous session courses) but it also includes some extra videos which cover sound fx, [...]

Optimizing Flash for the iPhone or Android

So I guess all I talk about on this blog is how to make apps now, but hey, that is kiiiinnnda the future of things for us illustrators, animators and web developers. And I’m sure I’m not the only one steering you toward app development, if you aren’t already, so by now hopefully you’re getting [...]

Oops forgot to mention this. Two new tutorials on Box2D and Cocos2D

Forgetful me, I forgot to mention here on the blog that I sent out two new zips of movies for previous buyers of my iOS tutorial series, both of these on Box2D (and Cocos2D) So far we’ve dropped a bunch of ninjas into the Box2D world and defined exact collision shapes around them. And looked at [...]