Basic Circle Chain engine using StencylWorks
In my various attempts to port Circle Chain to iPhone I couldn’t forget to create the basic engine with StencylWorks, and as usual it was very easy.
Let me show how does it work. First, we need to create a scene and an actor, the green circle.
Since StencylWorks automatically adds Box2D physics to actors, we need to disable it:
Then the scene behavior will just place ten green circles:
Finally, the behavior attached to the green circle actor will handle the entire movement, assigning to each circle a random position and a random direction and moving it around the screen:
And if you are running StencylWorks on a Mac, you can even test it in the official SDK simulator, as you can see here:
But testing is not over, I promise I’ll explore all possible ways to easily convert your Flash blockbusters into iPhone apps.
Stay tuned.
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Orlando
Thanks Emanuele. What do you think about the options iStencyl gives to create universal content, like Atlases. What I do not like, but I am really new creating mobil apps, is you have to create twice the content, for instance, for IPad and IPhone, and then switch Atlases according to the device. Is this a fine strategy?
Jon
Hi Orlando.
In StencylWorks 2.0, we handle that case automatically and have added a new mode called “Universal 2X” that renders the game at double-resolution on the iPad, using the 2x graphics. You no longer need to use the separate graphics approach, unless you’re optimizing the game for iPad separately.
M
Great tutorial, please add more!