{"id":963,"date":"2011-08-30T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/?p=963"},"modified":"2011-08-30T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T18:00:05","slug":"from-0-to-icade-in-3-hours-16-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/from-0-to-icade-in-3-hours-16-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"From 0 to iCade in 3 hours 16 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey,<\/p>\n

1. The Arrival and Assembly (30 min)<\/strong><\/p>\n

So my iCade arrived at 2:58pm today. It took me 30 minutes to unbox the parts and put the whole thing together with a hex-screwdriver. The completed item looks 110% win!!! There are tons of detailed unboxing guides on the internet, so I’ll just give you a shot of mine:<\/p>\n

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2. Testing it out with GAMES (30 min)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had to check it out with a real game, so I went to the definitive touchArcade post on the subject<\/a>. I realized I already had several of those titles on my iPad, so I dove right in with Velocispider<\/a> which was totally awesome on the iCade!! I can only hope more devs add support! 30 minutes elapsed “fun time”.<\/p>\n

3. Downloading the iCade SDK (1 min)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The “official” SDK is sort of useless, it’s just a manual telling us what we already knew. The great bit is there is an Open Source SDK (MIT) that is ready to go!<\/a> I downloaded and unzipped that and began adding it into my project. 1 minute.<\/p>\n

4. Being stupid (2 hours)<\/strong><\/p>\n

I then proceeded to brilliantly comment out the two lines of code that make the iCade code work. And then spend 2 hours realizing it. \/facepalm<\/p>\n

5. The iCade Integration (15 min)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once I fixed my error, the integration took approximately 15 minutes. The bulk of the code was just a switch statement that converted the iCade SDK events to my own internal framework events. I already had keyboard support, so it was no trouble at all.<\/p>\n

\r\n- (void)setState:(BOOL)state forButton:(iCadeState)button {\r\n    int v = 0; unsigned char c;\r\n    switch(button) {\r\n        case iCadeButtonA: v=KEY_a; c='a'; break;\r\n        case iCadeButtonB: v=KEY_b; c='b'; break;\r\n        case iCadeButtonC: v=KEY_c; c='c'; break;\r\n        case iCadeButtonD: v=KEY_d; c='d'; break;\r\n        case iCadeButtonE: v=KEY_e; c='e'; break;\r\n        case iCadeButtonF: v=KEY_f; c='f'; break;\r\n        case iCadeButtonG: v=KEY_g; c='g'; break;\r\n        case iCadeButtonH: v=KEY_h; c='h'; break;\r\n        case iCadeJoystickUp: v=KEY_UP; c=0; break;\r\n        case iCadeJoystickRight: v=KEY_RIGHT; c=0; break;\r\n        case iCadeJoystickDown: v=KEY_DOWN; c=0; break;\r\n        case iCadeJoystickLeft: v=KEY_LEFT; c=0; break;\r\n    }\r\n    Event e;\r\n    e.v = v;\r\n    e.c = c;\r\n    e.type = state?EVT_KEYDOWN:EVT_KEYUP;\r\n    game_event(e);\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
I also had to go ahead and add Universal (iPad) support to the game, this didn’t take too long as my framework has smarts for doing that pretty easily.<\/p>\n
6. In conclusion …<\/strong><\/p>\n
I’ve submitted my update to the App Store, so hopefully it’ll be in your hands within a week.<\/p>\n
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In conclusion, integrating iCade into your iOS game only takes 15 minutes<\/strong>, unless you’re as stupid as I am.  I encourage all devs who have appropriate games to do this so that I can play more games on my iCade!!!  Go GO GO GO!<\/p>\n
-Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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