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I am currently working on a couple of projects: An original game called "Implosion" which I am porting from Flash to the iPad, and a remake of Q*bert in Python (pygame), as part of the class I am teaching. Please feel free to use the "Labels" (at right) to follow a specific project or theme. If you are one of my Python students, I recommend that you check out the Python thread.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Finishing Touches

Here are a few things to make your game that much better looking:

Update your icon. The "coconut" icon looks nice, but you may decide you want something more specific to your program. You can do this easily by updating the "Icon.png" file (and it's relatives) to something else. You need to at least update the Icon.png file - make sure that its replacement is still 57x57 pixels - the iphone will automatically round off the corners and apply a gloss look. There are a few other variants - Icon-Small@2x.png, etc. You can update these too - just make sure the replacement graphics are the same size as the original.

You might also want to update your splash screen. This is the screen that shows up while your program is loading. This is the "Default.png" file in your Resources folder. Again, the easiest way to do this is just to replace Default.png with another copy (the same size) that has your preferred graphics.

Give your game a cool name. There are lots of settings based on this, but you can change all of them at once in the "Project" menu --> Rename... option. It should be pretty straightforward.

Oh, and don't forget sound to go with your graphics!

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