Overwhelmed by first game

[Rifts]

Hey Everyone!

I have made a few little fun apps but I really want to make a game using cocos2d.

I have started it but I feel a little overwhelmed. I think my biggest question/problem is i'm not entirely sure on coding the levels.

for discussion sake, lets say I have 20 different levels. Do I have different files for each level and then call that file to build the level at the correct time? Or do people create a different xib file for each level?

I feel like im confusing myself and making it harder then it needs to be.

any information would be much appreciated.

thanks!

[dany_dev]

the general idea is to create programmatically the level with informations stored in a file.....

[Rifts]

could you please go into a little more depth?

[dany_dev]

all depend on what your level contain....

However the file can be a xml or json file, that represent the x,y of where special objects are (like star, wall, etc...)


a short example to represent a level in xml with a "wallB" in 125,225 can be

<level>
   <object>
       <name>wallB</name>
       <x>125</x>
       <y>225</y>
   </object>
</level>

You can create a level editor to make the file easily.....
To parse it you can use NSXMLParser....