GS is a good jumpstart for cocos2d iphone

hackmodfordhackmodford Member Posts: 48
edited November -1 in Miscellaneous
I started trying to learn how to program in obj-c for the iphone a while ago... then I moved onto trying to learn cocos2d-iphone. I felt like I learned alot of concepts but then moved back to just simple app development...

Now that I've taken on GS I feel like I have a much better grip on how cocos2d-iphone works.

Anyone else have a similar feeling?

I just feel like GS is great for learning the concepts of object oriented game design... I've always been used to scripting.

Comments

  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    Glad it has helped you but i'm not sure this is place to discus this. MAybe you should sent the people from cocos2d forum to GameSalad instead of visa-versa.
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  • scitunesscitunes Member, Sous Chef Posts: 4,047
    I gotta say. I'm tired of the strict censoring of the GS forums. I do not like blatant advertising for competitive products but that is not what this is.
  • hackmodfordhackmodford Member Posts: 48
    How did I send people to cocos2d-iphone?

    You can't just go from GS to cocos2d... you have to learn how to program for obj-c somewhere in there... my problem was I've been trying to learn all along. It's just various things have helped me along the way!

    I'm happy :D
  • tenrdrmertenrdrmer Member, Sous Chef, Senior Sous-Chef Posts: 9,934
    scitunes said:
    I gotta say. I'm tired of the strict censoring of the GS forums. I do not like blatant advertising for competitive products but that is not what this is.

    Well a lot of us are sick of the this SDK can do this or that so why cant GS make theirs do the same crap.

    This is the GameSalad forum so unless its relevant to GS it really just doesn't belong here. The purpose of this forum is so people using GameSalad can ask questions and interact and get help with GameSalad, Not learn what other SDK might be able to do what they want.

    I used to not care that someone was pitching their other preferred SDK but honestly it is getting so ridiculous around here its really gotten on my nerves. And no this post was not a blatant advertising for cocos2d but how does that information benefit the GameSalad Community? If you are wanting to the GS for helping you learn another programming language then I bet they would rather an email about it instead of a public forum post.
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  • quantumsheepquantumsheep Member Posts: 8,188
    I think that GameSalad certainly does help teach the fundamentals of how to put a game together, variable manipulation, rule sets etc etc.

    QS :D

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  • ToastKittenToastKitten Member Posts: 360
    What I think the author was saying is that GS helped him wrap his head around different sets of programming concepts. If anything it was promoting GameSalad to those who don't already have a decent foundation of knowledge in game development, programing, etc...

    For example: if there's a forum for basic math ( + x / ) and you have someone that comes in and says it helped him understand calculus, I wouldn't consider that to be a bad thing. That's my current view of things anyways.
  • scitunesscitunes Member, Sous Chef Posts: 4,047
    ToastKitten said:
    What I think the author was saying is that GS helped him wrap his head around different sets of programming concepts. If anything it was promoting GameSalad to those who don't already have a decent foundation of knowledge in game development, programing, etc...

    For example: if there's a forum for basic math ( + x / ) and you have someone that comes in and says it helped him understand calculus, I wouldn't consider that to be a bad thing. That's my current view of things anyways.

    Yeah, that's what I was trying to say. Thanks for saying it much better. I guess I feel like it is so easy to just ignore posts that you don't find helpful. Some people are here to try out GS and are trying to make up their minds. I don't see how an honest discussion is inappropriate. Again, outright advertising for a competing product has no place here, but honest discussion should always be allowed IMO. I noticed people joking in another thread about "the SDK that cannot be named". It shouldn't have to come to that.
  • hackmodfordhackmodford Member Posts: 48
    ToastKitten said: What I think the author was saying is that GS helped him wrap his head around different sets of programming concepts. If anything it was promoting GameSalad to those who don't already have a decent foundation of knowledge in game development, programing, etc... For example: if there's a forum for basic math ( + x / ) and you have someone that comes in and says it helped him understand calculus, I wouldn't consider that to be a bad thing. That's my current view of things anyways.
    That's exactly what I was trying to say. I love Gamesalad! Besides... this is the misc. forum... I thought it would be appropriate to say Gamesalad is great in this forum...

    Sheesh
  • NachozNachoz Member Posts: 52
    i also started with cocos2d and basic objective c and agree that i understand more since using game salad but since i learned the basic stuff first it made game salad very easy to understand since the rules and concepts seem to be the same just without typing all the code, although im able to use xcode and cocos2d the time i save making things in gamesalad is what makes it so great atleast to me :)
  • hackmodfordhackmodford Member Posts: 48
    Thank You! Someone who understands...

    I felt the same... though it was probably even easier for me since I've used a similar program on windows called Multimedia Fusion.
  • mynameisacemynameisace Hull, UKMember Posts: 2,484
    GS helped a lot with my programming skills too, I'm still using GS 9-10 hours a day though because I enjoy using GS more than coding :)

    Ace
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