Hype – How To Play [Tod Cunningham]
Ken and I have been struggling with the problem of how to teach people to play our games. Most of our games are fairly niche, and we would like to broaden their appeal to people who might not know how...
View ArticleSubversion to Git [Tod Cunningham]
A couple weeks ago Ken and I decided to make the plunge from Subversion to Git. The main catalyst for this was some Hype generated files I wanted to check into Subversion. Unfortunately, every time...
View ArticleJapanese App Store Withholding [Tod Cunningham]
I learned an interesting lesson this weekend. I was reviewing our AppStore financial results and I noticed an interesting entry: After a little bit of research, I learned Apple withholds a 20% tax on...
View ArticleGameCenter Turn Based Matches [Tod Cunningham]
We have been looking and doing a major overall to Euchre HD. In particular, we are looking atleveraging GameCenter’s turn based games. Right now we use basic Game Center matchs, but there lots of...
View ArticleCocoa Debugging Tip [Tod Cunningham]
I’m attending my local Ann Arbor CocoaHeads meeting tomorrow, and the topic isObjective Tips. So I thought I would share a tip. What do you do when you get a crash due to an uncaught exception such...
View ArticleiOS In-App Purchases [Tod Cunningham]
This is hopefully a concise getting started with in-app purchases article. Five Lakes Studio has had a fair amount of success with leveraging in-app purchases, and I wanted to share some of the...
View ArticleNewsletter [Tod Cunningham]
We have had more then 700,000 downloads of our apps since 2010, and we don’t have any way to contact those people or know who they are outside of our apps. For in-app engagement I highly recommend the...
View ArticleAdvanced Swift – Part 1 [Tod Cunningham]
This is a summary of the topics and notes that I found interesting from watching the Advanced Swift WWDC session 404 by John McCall and Dave Abrahams. I highly recommend you watch the session. It...
View ArticleSwift Optionals Questions (?) and Bangs (!) [Tod Cunningham]
I haven’t posted in awhile, but with the Swift 2.0 release, I figured it was time to dip my toe back into the swift waters. I wanted to share my notes and commentary on optionals. Optional Types...
View ArticleNSTimer and Blocks (Closures) [Tod Cunningham]
Introduction I’m always a bit surprised to discover that NSTimer doesn’t have support, out of the box, for blocks or closures. So I decided to put together this simple extension to NSTimer that...
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