Catalyst
Whilst working on animation support for Athena for Courage, I began working on a game for the iPhone called Catalyst last weekend.
I was thinking about a game I had played about a month or two before called Polygonal Fury, and realised it would port nicely onto the iPhone.
So I started a OpenGL ES project (and discovered the new version of the iPhone supports shaders), and started with just making some circles bounce around.
Since the collision of a circle is easy, they seems the easiest to setup for interaction with touching the screen.
Initially I just made them "die" if tapped, but later I added the ability of shapes to spawn reactions.
All sprites within the game are triangle fans, but I will probably change them to quads with a texture due to the break that occasionally appears in the geometry, and alpha glow around the edge.
It is not much, but it is a start, I plan to add some more particle types, and maybe a few different upgrades than the ones giving in the Flash version.
The background needs changing, I was thinking of something going on in the background like in another Flash game I played, Spewer, with maybe cut scenes like the Nintendo DS game Contact had.
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Just started playing this game today and I”m already addicted, some of the puzzles are hard, some of them are just weird, like for example turn an alive dog made in matchsticks into a dead dog made in matchsticks.
The graphics are very nicely done as well, with lots of interaction with the style, though no 3D movement like in Hotel Dusk, though so far it has been quite linear, refusing to let you go somewhere because you need to talk to someone first, but its okay to stop and do puzzles on the way about everything, including the Town Clock.
Love puzzle games on the NDS, and I recommend this to anyone who liked that Hotel Dusk.