Make applications similar to Talking Tom Cat

Question

I want to make an applications similar to Talking Tom Cat, Touch Pets Cats/, Virtual Monkey and the Tap Zoo.

I have knowledge of Iphone basic animation.

I want to know that can i make these apps without OpenGL ,cocos and other gaming environment... Can i make it by using only basic frameworks...

Answer 1

There are 2 approaches

• One - make them as 3d Models with animations. The best suited too for this is Unity3d (it brings down development time to a great extent) But the basic version for iPhone to publish costs 400$. I think its worth it.

• Two - Make all of them as frame animations. Use either Cocos2d or UIImageView's frames to animate it. You need to dealloc and alloc on the fly when you have too many frames due to which you might hit memory warning. You might think loading on the fly would be costly/intensive but its not as much as you would expect, as iDevices have flash memory on them and we have tried this.

I personally would say use 2nd method if you need just a clone. But with 3d models with animations in them, you get more freedom to add creativity like a 3d camera to look around. So you can poke in the butt and have a different animation for it etc. Also you could have overlay texture and do things like adding tattoos to the 3d model.