Seminar Games Development with iOS (SS13) - Results

Goals

The seminar is a programming camp for students who want to learn games development for iOS. In the first week, they learn basic concepts in Xcode and Objective-C in interactive tutorials as well as more advanced concepts of Cocoa Touch and games development, using Cocos2D and Box2D.

In the second week, teams of two students develop their first iOS game. The goal is to develop an AppStore ready game with the main features implemented and well tested. On the last day, the teams present their game idea in a Pecha Kucha presentation and demonstrate their game to all other students in the seminar.

Supervisor


Stephan Krusche	Barbara Reichart

Games Overview

The following games were developed during the seminar in SS 13. If you click on one of the games, you will see more details about it.

Balloony

Overview

The game's concept is as easy as weird. You (the user) is representing a conservative, mean and pretty old man that had worked all his life and is now enjoying the nature and it's silence. His passion is sitting in the backyard and listening to the sounds of birds and the wind. But for a well known reason, there's no silence. Next to his backyard is a playground with a lot of children. And as you might know, children tend to play loud and noisy. That's exactly what makes him mad. But as talking to kids doesn't make them play quiet and you don't slap or slaughter kids, you need another solution. And there is one! Miraculously, there are spawning balloons every few seconds on the playground. And children love balloons. So that's your plan: Before kids can reach balloons, you burst them! Maybe the kids will leave, if they get annoyed more and more. But don't expect them to give up too early...kids are tough "enemies".

Features

iPad Game
There are several power-ups such as a new life or let the dogs out in order to chase a child out of the screen.
Hit the balloons before the children catch them.

Technologies

Cocos2d
Particle Effects

Team

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Benedikt Geßele	Ferdinand Kuchlmayr

Screenshots


Menu	Catch the balloons before the children can catch them.	Game Over

BreakTacular

Overview

BreakTacular is a remake of the arcade game Breakout developed by Atari in 1976. The game consists of a ball travelling around the screen, a player moving horizontally in the bottom area and a bunch of bricks in the upper half. When a brick gets hit by the ball it will be destroyed. Accordingly the goal is to destroy all bricks without dropping the ball. The player loses a turn when the last ball (in case of multiple balls at the same time) touches the bottom of the screen. The game is over when there are no turns left.

The game was published to the iOS AppStore!

Download for free in the AppStore for iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id634922894

Features

iPad Game
Move the player in order to avoid dropping the ball.
Some of the bricks drop items, that can change the size of the player or add additional balls.

Technologies

Cocos2d
GameCenter
Particle Effects

Team


Julian Geiger	Sebastian Speth

Screenshots


Main game scene	Burning balls	Menu

Catch The Eggs

Overview

The purpose of the game is to help the chicken collect as many of the eggs on the screen as possible to obtain a higher score and enter the hall of fame. The chicken has to fly to catch her belonging. Since she cannot fly, the user has to draw lines on the screen which will push the chicken back in the air. However, there are two types of eggs: yellow - good eggs and black-bad eggs. The bad eggs are not real eggs, but obstacles for the chicken and the user should help the chicken avoid touching them.

Features

iPad Game
Catch as many yellow eggs as you can.
Avoid obstacle like black eggs.
Draw lines on the screen to help the chicken to fly.

Technologies

Cocos2d
Box2d

Team


Endri Koci	Asish Biswas

Screenshots


Catch the eggs	Intro	Menu

Marble Jump

Overview

It is a single player game where you have to navigate a ball over a infinite path with holes and turns and prevent it from falling down. You get points for jumping over holes and turning the ball the right direction at the right moment. The game gets faster as longer you play it and your aim is to achieve the highest score you can get. On both devices iPhone and iPad do you have to navigate with swipe gestures. A swipe up will let the ball jump and a swipe left or a swipe right will turn the direction the ball rolls to.

Features

iPhone & iPad Game
Swipe over the screen in order to jump over holes or to change the direction of the ball.

Technologies

Cocos2d

Team


Christoph Heidelmann	Tobias Eisenschenk

Screenshots


Launch Screen	Menu	Jump over holes

Noah's 20

Overview

The idea behind the game is to help Noah collecting animals for his ark based on the story everyone knows from the bible. Unfortunately he is a bit too late so he has to catch the animals out of the sky as the Noachian flood has already started. For this reason God is a bit angry with Noah and therefore God challenges Noah with throwing some effect objects that complicate Noahs plan to catch the animals (consider the effects in the first table below). Luckily god also throws good things at Noahs ark which have positive consequences.

Noah's 20 Website

The game was published to the iOS AppStore!

Download for free in the AppStore for iPhone and iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id634580916

Features

iPhone & iPad game
Noah’s 20 looks always according to the current weather outside.
Tilt your device in order to steer the ship.

Technologies

Cocos2d
GameCenter
Particle Effects
CoreLocation

Team


Isabel Max	Pascal Schliski

Screenshots


Menu	Catch each animal twice	Game Over

Path Wars

Overview

The goal of the game is to destroy the enemy's base and prevent him from destroying the own. Before you can destroy the base you have to destroy the enemy's tower. The base and the tower can shoot at enemies, the players and the Mineons can only ram rivals. From each base are spawning Mineons in a specific time interval. These are controlled by the computer and they try run reach the enemy's base. During their way they attack all foes they run into.

Features

iPhone & iPad game
Multiplayer game
Destroy the enemy's base and protect your own base.

Technologies

Cocos2d
GameCenter
Particle Effects

Team


Benedikt Engeser	Magnus Jahnen

Screenshots


Menu	Protect your base	Destroy the enemy's base

Planet Defender

Overview

You have to defend yourself against incoming enemies. In order to do so you have a weapon that can be rotated around your planet (360° freedom). The weapon launches rockets that travel through space to damage the enemies.

Features

iPad game
Tutorial in the beginning of the game
Destroy the enemies in order to protect yourself

Technologies

Cocos2d
Particle Effects

Team


Florian Gerlach	Trung Hieu Dao

Screenshots


Tutorial	Shoot at enemies	Game Over

Rainbow Animals

Overview

An adventurous penguin lives at the south pole and wants to go to the sunny and paradisiac Madagascar. But the way to get there is very stony and dangerous. Rainbow Animals is a one player jump and run game. The player has to avoid running against icebergs and getting hit by a falling stone.

Features

iPhone Game
Tab in order to shoot against falling stones
Slide in order to jump over icebergs

Technologies

Cocos2d
Particle Effects
GameCenter

Team


Belinda Zahra	Ella Neunzert

Screenshots


The penguin on his way to Madagascar	Shoot at falling stones	Launch screen

Rotating 4 Wins

Overview

Rotating 4 Wins is a simple implementation of the well known game "4 in a row". Two players consecutively put blue or red stones on a game field which has 6 rows and 6 columns. If a player has put 4 stones of his color in one row, column or diagonal he has won. After every fifth stone placed at the game field the hole field with the stones on it is rotating 90 degrees in clockwise direction. Once the rotation has finished all stones which are now levitating will fall down again and therefore build a new game allocation.

Features

iPad Game
Play against another player on the same device
Place your stones in order to win
Win after rotation of the game situation

Technologies

Cocos2d

Team

Daniel Soller

Michael Bichlmeier

Screenshots


Play against another player on the same device	Menu	Place your stones

Space Defense

Overview

Space Defense is a small Tower Defense game where the player has to protect his planet from incoming spaceships with the help of different space cannons. By killing a spaceship the player will get credits, which he can use to build cannons. He can also get credits by collecting the diamonds appearing randomly on the map for a short period of time.

The game was published to the iOS AppStore!

Download for free in the AppStore for iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id908729405

Features

iPad Game
The map background will be selected randomly out of 29 different options, which will give the player a great variety and motivation to play the game again
Our game offers a total of 5 different space cannons and 6 enemy types
The game consists out of 5 levels. Each level needs a different tactic and the last one will be a special level with the super strong final boss.
For clicking fun we have two click events: the diamond will give you 50 extra credits and the heart will give you 1 extra life
Intro animation
Music for levels and menu

Technologies

Cocos2d
Blender
Simple Audio Engine
Media Player Framework

Team


Benedikt Loebbecke	Christian Eichhorn

Screenshots


Defend your planet	Defend your planet	Menu

Spooky Castle

Overview

The player takes the role of a cute little ghost flying upwards in a tower. The goal of the game is to survive as long as possible without leaving the bottom of the screen by flying through gaps between floors. The ghost is controlled by tilting the device. The player scores points for the time he survives and for each floor he has flown through additionally.

The game was published to the iOS AppStore!

Download for free in the AppStore for iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id634392293

Features

iPhone Game
Tilt the device in order to control the ghost.

Technologies

Cocos2d
GameCenter
Box2d
Particle Effects

Team


Leonhard Spiegelberg	Dominik Münch

Screenshots


Menu	Fly up the tower	Pause menu

Tanky

Overview

Tanky is a roundbased shooting game for two players on one device. It reminds of Sheepwar, a litte network game of ICQ. It is realized in top-down 2D-View. Every player has his own tank and spawnposition on the map. During a round the tank can shoot once and move around by using the accelerator of the iPad. Goal of the game is to find and hit the other player with bullets, but time and bullet range are limited. The game is over after a tank has three hits.

Features

iPad Game
Play against another player on the same device
Move the player by using the accelerometer of the iPad

Technologies

Cocos2d
Particle Effects

Team


Magdalena Neumann	Johannes Klein

Screenshots


Play against another player on the same device	Menu

Watch Out

Overview

The fishy hero is controlled by the player, who is attacked by evil birds and crabs. With his awesome jetpack fishy hero is able to move and avoid his enemies. The player can tell fishy hero to climb or decende by tilting his device. While avoiding the enemies and collecting coins for points, the game accelerates time by time, increasing the difficulty.

Features

iPhone & iPad game
Survive as long as you can
Avoid enemies
Control the hero using the accelerometer of the device

Technologies

Cocos2D
GameCenter
CoreMotion

Team


Sebastian Seitz	Ralf Hecktor

Screenshots


Fishy flying	Launch screen

Whack A Squirrel 3D

Overview

Whack-A-Squirrel is an adaption of the popular arcade game "Whac-A-Mole", a game that lets moles randomly spawn out of the game plane (the "ground"). The player then has to hit them while they are visible in order to get points. This version adapts this gameplay, but uses the 3rd dimension to add an extra challenge for the player. Instead of moles that spawn out of the ground, this game lets squirrels spawn out of a tree, which can be rotated around its own axis using the gyroscope. The player then has 60 seconds to hit as many squirrels as he can. Hitting a squirrel earlier thereby grants more points, so faster players are rewarded.

Features

iPhone Game
Tilt your device in order to turn the tree.
Tap on squirrels to hit them while they are visible in order to get points.

Technologies

Cocos2D
Cocos3D

Team


Sebastian Wenninger	Vlad Barboni

Screenshots


Tap on the squirrels	Menu	Launch screen