hi to all.. i am new to iphone development. presently i am developing a game for iphone , in my game , i have to dispaly some sprites in a tiled manner in a view like 3x4 matrix position . which are to be start animation one after another . these animated sprites have to wait for player's tap (touch). in this game , one of the sprite instance completes the animation , with out any user tap on it , i have to found that event and have to finish the game. then how can i found ....the sprite animation is completed or not with out any tap on it ? if the player ,taps on the sprite before its animation completion , then i have to add score to that player and , have to start another sprite's animation , which is in the same view. this is the game i want to develop... i think you all understand what my game is. can any body give me ad idea , that how can i approach to this game. which api i have to use , core animation or open gles or any special game ingine like cocos2d ,oolong, unity3d ...etc. i am confused about these api usage ,which api i have to use , or my game can develop with out a game engine support ? can i develop this as a View based appliaction ? please suggest , how can i develop the issues in my game. give me some high level inforamtion of way to complete my game . i am new to iphone development.. thats why i asked like this. your response is valuble to me . I know I'm asking a lot, but any info would be really appreciated. thanks in advance.

Sounds like a Whacka-a-Mole type game, right? That sort of thing could be done in a UIView with UIView animations pretty easily. You shouldn't need a whole engine unless you are planning to do more than one game, or have physics or online stuff. For something this simple(if it is indeed a small project like it sounds) you might just be adding a whole extra layer of complexity/stuff to learn.

Actually, now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure the UIView animation has a callback onAnimationFinished that passes a BOOL for whether or not the animation was finished. Meaning, you could start an animation [UIView beginAnimations], and if the player taps, start a new animation, then the first animmation's done callback would call with the finished param as false.



A bit about the engines. I've used Torque(2D and 3D) for the iPhone, and the source is definitely included. For the 2d though, it comes out to $750 total if you don't already have the PC license, and the the initial setup can be a bit daunting if you haven't used the iPhone or Torque products before, so I wouldn't recommend you use it for your first project.

[Edited by - NinjaMonkeyPirate on December 24, 2009 4:01:49 PM]

Hi NinjaMonkeyPirate

Thanks for your reply.
since i am a newbie to iphone development ,i am not clearly get your logic.

But , i foll0wed similar logic you said , that as

i added the images to UIImageView's instances , and getting animation.
and calling [imageView startAnimation] - to Start animation , and
[imageView isAnimating] to know is animation completed or not .and i am detecting touch event on it also.

but i am getting problem in how to use timers , to know if hit occurs or not,
and to restart timer if touch correctly before animation completion.

can you give me the idea , how i use the timers to get my game logic.

am i foll0wing correct way or not..if not can u please suggest a good way to do my game ....in a detailed manner.

thanks in advance.