Sorry for the confusion, been distracted with other things and didn’t get this info done soon enough. I did extend the original dates slightly in the update above, but I’ve just created a kickoff post in which I’ve extended the time more significantly to hopefully give people more time to get involved.

Apologise if this has all been a little misleading, but hopefully sorted out now.

Mike

I’d take part but given that you’ve only just published the rules and started to formalise it I’ve got to ask why you didn’t move the deadline along a bit. As personally I would have liked a month from now. Also feel the update should have been a new post rather than a rewritten over the old one. It’s a little misleading when you do that.

Happy belated birthday!

Tony

- The app has to take no longer than 56 hours that’s 8 hours per day for 7 days. You therefore don’t need to do everything in a calendar week, just in within the hours stated above.

- If you are interested in taking part, send an email to mike@71squared.com to register your involvement. If you can also send email updates they can be placed on the blog to provide a running commentary of progress, which would be cool :o)

- You can use any frameworks you wish e.g. any of the code from the 71squared tutorials, cocos2d etc

- The game can be anything you like, but it has to be a game and not a utility application

- The game has to be complete and published to the app store by 30th August. I’ve extended the deadline as I’ve be tardy in responding to comments on this post. An email should be sent to mike@71squared.com when the app has been submitted which provides details of the app e.g. name and description etc.

- The game does not need to be free, but having it free for a small period would I’m sure encourage others to download it and then vote ;o) you could then add a price once voting is over

- All voting must have taken place by 13th September, which should have given Apple time to get the apps to the app store and for people to download and try them.

- I am hoping we get more than three entrants, in which case the top three games as voted by the readers of this blog will receive a copy of “Learning iOS Game Programming”

I hope this makes sense, but let me know if you have any questions and I look forward to hearing from those who are going to take part :o)

Mike

Mike

I am hoping the book will be available in all good book shops ;o) and online to purchase around the middle of September. The edits are complete and it should be going to print in the next couple of weeks.

Thanks for the nice feedback.

Mike

Is your book out? Can you post a link to it, I would like to get it :)

Thanks for all your awesome tutorial.

Cheers!

I think this is a wondefull idea. Since I started reading your blog I’ve had a lot of ideas for games and apps in general, but as well as most of the readers here I’m a developing on my own. Hopefully I’d had my current app on the store in the following weeks. If anyone is interested on working together, I’m developing an app to write partitures based on what you play and record trough the mic (guitar and bass guitar for now.) Thank you very much 71 squared guys for all your time and the effort put on the blog, you truly inspire all of us.

Alvaro

One question with regarding the book, do you have any ETA on the video tutorials that will be going with the book? I’m looking forward to these as they will go very nicely with the book and the other tutorials on the blog.

Perhaps a quick update on this post would be good, as it sounds like the comp is running and I don’t think we’re there yet.

Happy birthday and well done on the book. :-)

Always thinking… lol