WOW! Fantastic tutorial! I especially enjoyed learning to add a splash page which is a nice touch for any game.

Will you be uploading the source for download?

hy, i’m new in programming with the iphone sdk and i LOVE your 3 tutorials …

its perfect for beginning, also if you didn’t develop with objective-c

thx

Yet another great tutorial thank you!

where is the source code?

thank you very much this is very helpful.

Hey, this is great, thank you. When is the next tutorial going to be uploaded as i only have until end of march to complete my own project and i want to incorporate audio in mine.

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Anyone know how to move the paddle on the x and y axis?

The source is below the ads

Wow, didn’t know it is that simple.

typo report:
it is not a typo actually but the IBOutlet of SplashViewContrller *view controller in property declaration is not required since it is created with code.

sorry i forgot to thank you so thank you very very much
i have learned a lot from you Brandon.
thank you again

feel free to delete both posts.

Thanks for another great tutorial.

Anyone know how to improve the collision detection?

@Alex…

For improved collision detection, you will have to use Cocos2d framework for iphone games. You can have pixel level collision detection by using cocos2d.

Hey, how do you add a main menu screen after the splash screen. The main menu will enable you to select the button start new game??

@John,

From this tutorial, that should be pretty straight forward. Just transition this to a menu view. Then, in your menu view, load your main view when a new game button gets tapped.

Great tutorial! Clean, simple and useful. Exactly what I’ve been looking for…

thanks for answering my questions ass face

@dude ??, what was your question and why are you so mad at the world?

Thanks for the tutorial, very helpful. After the animation ends, its supposed to transition back to the xxViewController.xib, however mine just shows up as a blank view, even though I’ve made changes to the xxViewController.xib through interface builder. I’m sure its something simple and an error on my part, but any ideas?

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Thank you for a great tutorial!

I am stuck on how to make the menu menu screen (where you can select start game) appear after the splash screen?? How do i do this

This was exactly what I needed to give me a jump start into writing my own code thanks alot.

Curious if you could make a video of what this is supposed to look like after its done.

I have a feeling what im seeing on my screen isnt what should be happening.

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This is a great tutorial for people like me who know very little about programming. Thanks.
I have a question. I sometimes get the error ‘context’ undeclared (first use in this function). I was wondering what to do about that.

Hey, nice tutorial, buuut…
i gues splash screens suck. In your example you’re stealing bout 5 seconds of the users valuable time with just some boring animations. is that really necessary?

for an on-the-go experience the should provid its valuable content as fast as possible wothout keeping the user waiting…

my 2 cents.

Alex

I agree with Alex. The only acceptable reason to display a splash screen is when you are loading game resources. In this example code you are only boring the user with an unnecessary delay.

As Apple writes in the user interface guidelines: Avoid splash screens whenever possible.

Hi! Thanks for a great tutorial.

I have this code in my previous project for animating two views (fade in/out). I tried this in your code and it works also:

- (void)fadeView
{
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:context];
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.75];

if ([viewController.view superview]) {

[self.view bringSubviewToFront:splashImageView];
[splashImageView setAlpha:1.0];
}

[splashImageView setAlpha:0.0f];
viewController.view.alpha = 1.0;
[splashImageView removeFromSuperview];

[UIView commitAnimations];
}

Hey, can someone help me to create a main menu screen. Also, when is the next tutorial coming out?

This is a great tutorial. Thanks for the information.

I’m stuck on changing the background color so that the splash image fades to black. Currently, as you are likely aware, it fades to white. I’ve tried setting the background color through various channels with no luck.

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Kris

would it be at all possible to increase the speed of the ball as gameplay goes on?

When is the next tutorial going to be published?

Hi!

Do you think you could make a splash screen tutorial for a Tab Bar View instead of a regular view?

I am trying to make it work, but I keep getting an exception with this message: “this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key tabbarController”.

Thanks in advance!

I think the point being made is that maybe you don’t need a splash screen for THIS GAME but you might and it’s all part of the tutorial. Apple uses them ALL THE TIME, even in MobileMail.

Wanna bet how many iTennis games hit the store this week?

From Part 2, when a point is scored and tapToBegin appears and the ball is centered, it actually puts it below the “net”, closer towards the yellow racquet. I think this is because of the display bar on the top. Any ideas how to actually center the ball even with the display bar displayed? Thanks

Hmm, disregard my previous post. It seems to be centering now, yet I don’t think I changed anything…

Thanks for pt. 3 of the tutorial though! This really helps a lot.

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Hi, when is the next post going to come out?

Brandon,

Righteous tutorial!

Dude,

You are an asshole!

John,

Learn something on your own!

I really need help to create a main menu screen. Can someone help?

Awesome tutorial.

Any one have ideas on doing this when your Game is an Opengl ES view? I have a simple game that does all the drawing in opengl ES. I created this based of the Opengl ES template provided. I tried commenting out all of the openGL code from the delegate and unconnecting the “openGL view” connection in the interface builder but the drawView() method is still getting called when the app is initialized. I’m not even instantiating an instance of this view so there must be something that the template set up that I don’t know about. Any ideas on how I can stop the drawView method from being called by default so I can call it myself after the splash screen has finished?

Thanks!

Hi guys,

I am so glad to see such a great example of a basic iPhone game. I followed the tutorial carefully, but what I got is a working splash screen followed by a empty court that doesn’t respond to clicks in the simulator. I had a friend tried my code but ended up with exactly the same thing.

What I have missed?

Thanks!

this is nice tutorial

Great tutorial!!!!! Thanks. my ball is still gettiing trapped on the racquet. Can u or anyone help find the problem?, i have the new code u posted but still getting trapped. thanks for the help and keep up the great work.

I have a question in loadView about the allocs for the splash view and the iTennisViewController. In both cases, there was no release. Is it not needed in these cases? Who does the releasing?

Congratulations!
This tutorial is very usefull!

Thanks!!

The ball is still getting stuck will you update the tutorial please!!!

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Amazing tutorial mate, covers basics mechanics of a game AND basic cocoa touch mechanics!

One teeny little question…

Why do you set the Alpha of the splash screen back to 1.0 in the finishedFading method?

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This is really very good tutorial to learn the gaming consept and start doing development. also iCodeblog have rich tutorials for the beginners and advance iphone developers.

Many Thanks

Hi, thanks for that great tutorial!

In loadView, shouldn’t
-> “splashView.frame = CGRectMake(0,0,320,240);”
be
-> “splashView.frame = CGRectMake(0,0,320,480);” ?

Also, I guess tat instead of hardcoding the values in it would be possible to use the appFrame Rect values isn’t it?

Thanks!

O.

Here’s a much easier way to create a splash screen (1 line of code!)

Name your splash screen image “Default.png” put it in your resources folder then simply add the line “sleep(3)” in your [name]appdelegate.m under

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {

ie:
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {
sleep(3) /* 3 is the number of seconds you want it to last for */
}

Hey why can’t i see his video for quickly using the interface buidler in part 1 of your tutorial

These are great tutorials! I was going to go farther in depth to them by figuring out the code lol, but ever since the website move a lot of the images in the newer tutorials are gone, so you might want to upload them again..

Thank You for all the time and work you put into all these tutorials to help newbies like me =D

Techy

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Thanks for putting the time into these great tutorials!

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По правде говоря, сначала не очень то до конца понял, но перечитав второй раз дошло – спасибо!

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Hi Brandon,i tried using this

- (void)loadView
{
// Init the view
CGRect appFrame = [[UIScreen mainScreen] applicationFrame];
UIView *view = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:appFrame];
view.autoresizingMask = UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleHeight|UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleWidth;
self.view = view;
[view release];

logoImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"logo.jpg"]];
logoImageView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480);
[self.view addSubview:logoImageView];

splashImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"splash.jpg"]];
splashImageView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480);
[self.view addSubview:splashImageView];

ballImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"menu.jpg"]];
ballImageView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480);
[self.view addSubview:ballImageView];

viewController = [[Nine_WarriorsViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
viewController.view.alpha = 0.0;
[self.view addSubview:viewController.view];

splashCounter =0;

timer = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:2.0 target:self selector:@selector(fadeScreen) userInfo:nil repeats:YES];
}

as i am trying to show logo ,splash and then menu page but this is working fine but i am trying to do following in

- (void) finishedFading
{
splashCounter++;
[UIView beginAnimations:nil context:nil]; // begins animation block
[UIView setAnimationDuration:0.75]; // sets animation duration
self.view.alpha = 1.0; // fades the view to 1.0 alpha over 0.75 seconds
viewController.view.alpha = 1.0;
[UIView commitAnimations]; // commits the animation block. This Block is done.

if(splashCounter == 1)
{
[logoImageView removeFromSuperview];

}
else if(splashCounter == 2)
{
[splashImageView removeFromSuperview];

}
else if(splashCounter == 3)
{
[ballImageView removeFromSuperview];
[timer invalidate];

}

//[timer setFireDate:[NSDate dateWithTimeIntervalSinceNow:1]];
//timer1 = [NSTimer scheduledTimerWithTimeInterval:2.0 target:self selector:@selector(fadeScreen) userInfo:nil repeats:NO];
}

but the above method is not working properly as its suppose to delete logo image then splash and then should show menu image

but it keeps showing menu image all the times with fading effect…..where am i doing wrong??? please help

ohh i got it….its my silly mistake…. i was drawing it other way around….its solved…

How do i make the first and second image the same amount of seconds of showing?

Mine doesn’t open properly please help

for some reason my pics disappear according to alert Help???!!!

Thank you very, very, very much for taking the time to post these tutorials, they are a great help.

I’m getting this error:
iTennisAppDelegate.m:18: error: ‘SplashViewController’ undeclared (first use in this function)

Help?

I am not able to get the project to launch in the build and run, as soon as the splash screen launches it crashes, I have gone back over all of the tutorials and everything is correct, I have even downloaded your source code and it does the same thing as well i don’t know if I am doing something wrong but I cannot get the product to launch.

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You don’t need to do all this just for a splash screen. You can just post in your Default.png into Xcode, and then in the ApplicationDidFinishLaunching; method, you would put [sleep 5] (to sleep 5 seconds). During this sleep period, Default.png is shown.

Of course, if you wanted it to fade out, then your method is better, but for a basic splash screen, you only need one line of code.

How should the source code be if i don’t want a fader to go from the splash screen to the mainscreen? I want to tap the splash screen to go to the mainscreen.

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Hello,
I try to understand this tutorial and there is something i don’t understand…
When we open the application, we can see a first image which name is “Defaut.png”.
After, we can see the splash screen.
But, where is declare this image “Defaut.png” ??

Супер! Спасибо :0

hello,

Your tutorials are really Best. I was given to build a game in iphone and didn’t even know objective-c but your tutorials proved best guide for me.

Thank you so much !!! Please keep adding such tutorials, these will help all the people who are new to iphone like me and also to others.

Can you use the same principle for a Game start screen, where when you first run the application it says a variant of “Start game”, “Continue Game”, “Hi-scores”, “Credits”, etc?

Thanks

Very great tutorial, I am very grateful for your hardwork and good intentions. tyvm.

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Ich kann die Source-Dateien nicht “builden”.
Fehlermeldung: error: There is no SDK with the name or path ‘iphoneos2.2′
Sollte das Zeug nicht in soweit abwärtskompatibel sein?
Wie kann ich das beheben (Es wird mir nicht angezeigt, welche Datei genau für den Ärger verantwortlich ist)?
Ansonsten: Nettes Tut!

Sh**! I’d had to write in English!
So: I’m not able to build the source data. I always get this error: There is no SDK with the name or path ‘iphoneos2.2′
Does the newest version of XCode not support this code or what?
How can I fix this because XCode doesn’t tell me in which part of the program the error is located.
But this is a very good tutorial!
———————————————–
Sorry for my bad English.

The “splash.png” image was not loading but it did not give any error or broken image symbol.

I figured it out the image was named “splash.png” but the in the code it was called “Splash.png”

Thank you again for this great Tutorial!
Aaron

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Думаю, бессмысленная заметка

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Thanks!! Great blog and post!

I used this sample to my application, but i also include the splash screen as an animation. To iterate a set of images, just use the following code:


splashImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 480)];

splashImageView.animationDuration = 0.75;
splashImageView.animationRepeatCount = 0;
[splashImageView startAnimating];


[self.view addSubview:splashImageView];

Thanks its working fine and one Doubt how can add a Peal effect to it

I am so glad I found your blog. I always look for informative post to update myself. I like your post. Thanks for sharing information about iPhone game development. I am a mobile application developer. It is a very interesting task for me to develop game application for iPhone.

Thanks dude, great tutorial and very well explained! It was very useful to my personal project.

I have tried this tutorial bout twice now and when ever I try to play on the Ipod Touch it hangs up on the ITennis loading screen anyway to get past that part? I have even tried copy paste your code into xcode and still have the same problem…

Very useful tutorial !

1 questions is :
Do you create the SplashScreenViewController programatically (not by nib file) because it’s fast and appear on the screen immediately ?

Thanks

Thanks for the great tutorial, but actually I’ve some strange thing. I found that the splash screen appears without adding any code for that. all what I did, is that I put the “Default.png” image in the resources folder and I found it appears while running. Is that related to the SDK version that I use….actually, I use iOS SDK 4.2 and Xcode 3.2.5 ….. please answer my question as really I need to know what is the reason for that??

Default.png is a required file that the iOS automatically displays while loading the app into memory. The splash screen in this tutorial is an actual splash screen, as in an image loaded at the beginning of a program to give the user some information such as version number or support phone numbers, etc.

great tutorial, but just 1 question: What do you do if when you follow the guide completely, it still has 3 errors, therefore it will not let you build the app and test it?

i used all the same code u did and when i run my app it runs the Default.png as soon as i open it, but after that it only displays the window view in the mainwindow.xib. I’ve quintuple checked my code and nothing seems to work! what’s the problem?