Hey just wanted to let everyone know I released Red Ball 2 Player if anyone wants to try it.
That's Red Ball (2 player) not Red Ball 2 (player) lol..I have a Red Ball 2 also..So the next one will be
Red Ball 2 2 Player 
It uses Game Center or Bluetooth and of course Sparrow!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/red-ball-2p/id412444146?mt=8
Red Ball 2 Player
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Wow, that's great! I will try that out ASAP!!
Congratulations for finishing it! I'm crossing my fingers that it climbs high up in the App Store rankings! =)
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Wow, looks good hope it does well.
Looking forward to red ball 2 (2 player).Posted 2 years ago # -
Nice. It is the perfect stress seeing the competing red ball jumping past you.
ERik
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Thanks guys!
That's the exact reaction I was aiming for :)..When I was testing it using Bluetooth and playing 2 devices I even stressed out myself! lol
So hopefully the way Game Center works where one person might recommend to all their friends to get it games will spread faster than without using Game Center. So if that idea works out I'd recommend everyone try to incorporate GC somehow in their games.Posted 2 years ago # -
What a great game! Congratulations, Mike.
Speaking of GC, do you have any advice regarding my post in this thread?
http://forum.sparrow-framework.org/topic/game-center-testing
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Thanks Paul!
Hmm maybe you can setup a dummy game with a nonsense title just to get all your testing done? Then just remove the whole mess after everything is done..Posted 2 years ago # -
Yeah, that's what I'd planned to do. I just didn't know if there was some reason for not doing that (Apple policy or whatever). I guess I'll try it and see. Everything seems so final in iTunes Connect, it makes me nervous
I won't derail your thread anymore. Best of luck with Red Ball 2!
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Mike, what's your Game Center User name? Mine is "PrimaryFeather". Perhaps we can play against each other! =)
BTW, how did you implement the online multiplayer part? I always thought the Game Center only does the matching of the players, but not exchange data over the internet? Am I wrong with that, or did you create your own server?
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Hey Daniel!
That would be great! I'm "redball" I'll send a friend request.
Oh that's what I thought also but it's really great what apple does. Technically they don't provide a server but what they do is
have a match making service and a STUN server to facilitate a connection between devices. So the communication is all peer to peer and it's pretty good so far from my testing. And it was a breeze integrating all this with sparrow.
I'll try to monitor any Game Center related questions on here and try to answer any questions that come up. Maybe a separate forum section if it becomes popular :)..Posted 2 years ago # -
Wow, that sounds like a really powerful feature. I'll have to take a look at that!
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Mine is J2Defender but for some reason i can't send you both a friend request, can you guys add me, i also want to play redball
( as a side note, if anybody has a xbox live account, thats also my nickname there )
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Hm, I can't add you either for some reason
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Same here. I'm getting "Please verify the name and try again" I wonder if these names are case sensitive...
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I'm getting the same error trying to add Ronald.
Weird.Posted 2 years ago # -
Could it be that Game Center is location based?
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Interesting idea, but I added Daniel fine.
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