The game is based loosely on the old arcade game were you bet on horses in a race and try to pick the winner.

This is my first game featuring IAP and Game Center.

The game is FREE but obviously features IAP to buy coins for betting. You don’t have to use the IAP and you get free coins every 24 hours.

It’s a racing game where you bet on the winner of a race. It’s loosely based on the old arcade machines where you bet 2p on the winner of the horse race and you could bet on all 5 horses. I have introduced some new characters like snails and aliens (fish and starfish coming soon).

On the iPad version you get a local multiplayer option, so up to 4 players can compete against each other betting on the winner.

This game will be free and have IAP to buy more coins. The game also feature Game Center integration  so you can earn achievements and submit your score to the leader board.

I was hoping to get it submitted before Christmas but with Apple have some time off over Xmas (during this period you can’t submit apps), think I will wait till the New Year and this gives me more time for testing.

Not sure it’s the best way but it works for me.

I will do a proper post on how to do it once my app is approved by Apple, just in case they don’t like something. Basically I used the Corona demo twitter to app to get authorisation using the web popups, then I upload the image to my server along with the authorisation tokens. Then on my server a PHP page takes the image and uploads it to twitter.

There could be simpler methods but I tried all sorts trying to get Corona to talk direct to the Twitter API but couldn’t get it working. Posting tweets is fine but posting a image is a different story.

Full version – itunes.apple.com

Lite version – itunes.apple.com
 

The App is called Character Creations and is a childrens app for creating different characters.

Direct link to iTunes – http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/character-creations/id504264102?ls=1&mt=8

Google Short URL – http://goo.gl/QnC6j

Support Website -http://www.caniplay.co.uk/

Please buy it and leave a nice review on the App Store or in iTunes, it’s only 69p (99c US) and we aim to keep it updated with over 10 additional characters coming (we are running a vote every month).

To view the site please click here.

The posts are not finished when inserted, hence why I make them draft posts. They still need a category assigning to them and any other SEO type stuff I want to add.

What I do on www.caniplay.co.uk is attach this code to a hidden page and call it with a start date and end date. This will then add all the products from the feed within that date. I then go through each draft post, tidy it up and publish it to the site.

I find this the easiest way to add new posts to my site, as I just go into the drafts folder on WordPress and if there are posts in their I know they need tidying up and adding to the site.

UPDATE: I have now added to the code, it now also takes the associated JPG image and uploads that and also links it to the post you are creating. It does a quick check to make sure there is a image (some games have no image associated with them in the feed) and if there is a image URL then it uses it.

<?php

$xml = simplexml_load_file("http://www.find-games.co.uk/services/gamesearch.asp?mode=heavy&site=YOURTAGHERE&platform=ps3&category=consoles");

foreach ($xml->children() as $item)
{

	// Create post object
	$my_post = array(
		'post_title' => $item->groupTitle,
		'post_content' => $item->description . '[get_details ASIN="' . $item->id . '"]',
    	'post_status' => 'draft',
    	'post_author' => 1
	);

$new_post = wp_insert_post( $my_post );

if(!empty($item->imageURL))
{
	$file_url = media_sideload_image($item->imageURL,$new_post);
	echo $new_post . ' ' . $item->imageURL . ' ' . $file_url;
}
else
{
	echo $new_post;
}

?>

This image was taken with my Nikon F80 film camera and scanned in.
 

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