Free Tank Game Template available for all..

wayneh001

Hi All,

Me and my son have designed various iPhone Apps and games and have used GameSalad for a handful of our Apps. We mainly use XCode and Objective-C, but thought we'd give GameSalad a go.

We've created a basic Tank Game [Mega Mania], which we started in GameSalad, but have ported over to Objective-C (due to speed etc). So, rather than bin the GameSalad project we thought we'd share the basic game with you all.

It is very basic, but does demonstrate:
- Scene Changes
- Buttons
- Graphics
- Sound Effects, Music
- Dual Control Joysticks
- Parallax Scrolling (2 examples)
- Multi Animated enemies
- Multi Scoring
- Score tracking
- Lives, Hit Points
- etc, etc...

Obviously, the game is by no means complete, as we changed direction very early on.

Hope you enjoy the free Template.

http://gamesalad.com/game/play/51381

Wayne H.

JCFord

HI Wayne,

just played your game, really really nice, love the graphics, and thanks
JCFord

Stormtrix

Wayne,
thank you so much for the upload, i'm sure it will help a lot of people out including myself.

quantumsheep

That's very generous of you. It's awesome that you share this creativity with not only us, but your son also.

A family of game makers - brilliant

ORBZ

nice

giacomopoppi

Wow, thx loads!
can we also use your images in our games?

quantumsheep

I'd err on the side of caution and say 'no'.

This is a good starting point - it's got a bunch of features in there which is ace. It's not a 'game' though. That bit you have to do yourself

wayneh001

Hi, As this started out as a quick development idea (under 7 hours), we created some of the graphics, the tank etc, but montaged and manipulated others from the web and used some images that came with GameSalad.

My son (12) wanted to see if we could create a [Heavy Weapon] clone using GameSalad. Turned out we could, but I was concerned with the engine performance - thus we re-developed using Objective-C (3+ weeks development). We have since re designed all the graphics and of course added levels, bosses, bonus's, different weapons, guns, missiles, enemies etc..

To ensure there are no copyright issues with some of the graphic and music elements within the GameSalad project I would always recommend replacing the core graphics with your own thus making the game more your own, or at least manipulating them beyond the original base ideas in Photoshop etc.

We always create our own sound, music and graphics for our final software which we have done for our Xcode project of this game.

The music track for this game (Past, Present & Future 1) was written by myself and my son using Reason 4, the full audio can be found at:

http://soundcloud.com/slow-enemy

Wayne

quantumsheep

Hey Wayne,

I see you're based in the UK - would you be interested in a London meet at all?

I could buy you a pint to say 'thanks' for the template

Cheers,

QS

wayneh001

I never say "No" to a free Pint :-)

I'm in Lincolnshire however. I do have family in London and will be visiting in a couple of months. We could meet up then, unless you find yourself accidentally crossing the M25 border and straying a little further north?...

Wayne

quantumsheep

I strayed North once, to Nottingham.

Ended up trapped there for three years - NEVER AGAIN!!!

I've done something a bit wonderful with your template, as I was planning something like this anyway. But the template certainly kick-started the project

QS

wayneh001

Yup, that's what we Northern's do with strangers who stray into our little villages... We trap them in our cellars, making them write music and design graphics for our iPhone Apps! After 3 years we usually let them go again.. :-O

.......Something wonderful you say.. Look forward to seeing the game soon or a sneaky early peak.

Wayne

SingleSparq

Always good to release them into the wilds again!

quantumsheep

Wayne - I'd love to show you what your template now looks like under sheep management

Send me a mail if you like - details in the 'about us' section of my site - www.quantum-sheep.com



QS

synthesis

Looks nice...Great little start game.
One tiny bug I found...you forgot to wrap the mountain background image...at the end it reveals the black desktop wash.

But I am sure it is just intended as a base...so no biggie.
Nice job and I'm sure the community will love it!

quantumsheep

Sir, I would love to, but because my time is limited these days, I'd rather get it finished before I show everyone else.

It's not a huge change. The main difference is I'm making multiple levels, with multiple backgrounds, new and different enemies and a shop for upgraded weapons!
(possibly. Jgary loves shops. I've been hearing him whine at me for A YEAR saying all games need shops... I had to give in eventually).

I can tell you what it's called though: 2 Minute Tank

I'll send you something

QS

butterbean

Nice template!! Thanks for sharing!

tmoehle

How do you download this? I'd like to get into the template.

tenrdrmer

Well its an old post so it may have been updated to have to have the download disabled. Although I would definitely like to get this too.

BarkBarkCo

http://api.gamesalad.com/asset/view/7862

Change the .game file to .zip and extract the game project.

AppChogie

Thanks Wayne a great little template, great work from the Wayne house hold, Project merger still blow my mind :-)

Thanks.
Keith

SRS777

So how do we download this.

SRS777

does anyone know how to get this to work?

simo103

right click on the above link and do a save as. Then change the name to something.zip and extract the game

JohnPapiomitis

im pretty sure wayne pulled his templates because of piracy. now im not the gamesalad police lol just sayin dont use his graphics everyone

tenrdrmer

Now is the explosion Wayne's cause it seems like I see that same explosion in a lot of different places? I wouldn't use any of the art but it sure would be nice to get a good explosion animation.

JohnPapiomitis

tenrdrmer said:
Now is the explosion Wayne's cause it seems like I see that same explosion in a lot of different places? I wouldn't use any of the art but it sure would be nice to get a good explosion animation.

the explosions actually from the shoot em up template

tenrdrmer

Well How bout that. Is that something we are allowed to use. I know the art is mainly there for demo purposes but has GS ever Said?

frario

Those soundtracks are GREAT! Damn how much I like them! Whoooooo

wayneh001

@Frario
The sound tracks were produced by myself for the final Game (which was subsequently re-developed using an alternative method). To hear the Hi-Def audio i've uploaded them to the Sound Cloud:

SoundCloud

Cheers

EatingMyHat

@wayneh001 what did you end up using for the game? also, can you post an iTunes link, will be interesting to see the final version.