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General coding questions / Re: iPhone Demo
« on: January 15, 2011 »I haven't seen a new graphical theme yet, I've completed the Basic 1 and Basic 2 sections.
I did read about the custom levels after I'd finished playing which sounds fun
If you don't mind me asking, do you do the level sharing via GameCenter, or do you host a server for the sharing, or is it just over wi-fi?
The graphical themes are a user preference thing in options, not a sign of progression. If you clear all of basic 1 to gold, you will unlock the latest theme. The available themes before were if you got all basic to gold, or all intermediate to gold, etc.
I was determined that Gemocide wouldn't ever use the network to do anything (far too many games do that without asking and I've heard of people with scary phone bills because of naughty games).
In Gemocide, even if you haven't completed any of the core levels, you can select custom levels from the main menu and start designing your own levels to challenge your friends.
There are instructions in there about how to share, but essentially all you do is export the level to a photo album on the iOS device and then use whatever means you want to send the photo to a friend. Either emailing straight from the device, plugging it into a PC and downloading the picture, syncing with iPhoto and then emailing, Gemocide really doesn't care or even get involved.
If you upload a picture to facebook, it gets messed up (awful JPEG quality conversion), but it can still be read and imported by Gemocide. Also, and very oddly, if you get the photos into iPhoto and then synchronise back to the iOS device as a gallery, they get some blurring (again down to pointless JPEG quality drops).
To import a level, either use the iOS device to browse to a website that has one (someone's facebook where they've posted one or the gemocide forums where there is a 20 level challenge for folks to try) and just press and hold the picture to save it to the iOS device, and import into the game.
