Pirates vs Ninjas Free
Our upcoming title for the iPhone and iPod Touch, Pirates vs Ninjas, will be released for free! We will be releasing the game for free in order to test the waters as the title is our first foray into...
View ArticlePirates vs Ninjas Submitted
Our very first free game has just been submitted to Apple for review. After a few hiccups with our developer account the binary is finally uploaded and we are patiently waiting at Fancy Rat Studios. We...
View ArticlePirates vs Ninjas Available
Get Pirates vs Ninjas for Free right here. This is Fancy Rat Studios very first game, a quick little pick up and play whac-a-mole style shooter. Be a Pirate, kill some Ninjas. Be a Ninjas, kill some...
View ArticlePixel Pile
Pixel Pile has been sent in to Apple and so we must wait for their approval before we see the game up in the App store. Pixel Pile will be Fancy Rat Studios second game for the iPhone, and will be...
View ArticlePixel Pile – New Video
Stupendous! A brand new Pixel Pile video as promised. There are still some difficulties with the screen capture causing some of the colours to be washed out and blurry when recording from the iPhone...
View ArticlePile Some Pixels!
Pixel Pile is now in the App store and ready for download! Grab it now for only $0.99. There’s already some fancy pants updates in the works that make the game even more fancy and perhaps more pantsy....
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ProgressTimer for cocos2d
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I will put my thoughts on game design concepts and ideas into words so for today let’s focus on a topic that I hope many games will use. A Loading indicator! The...
View ArticleMemory Management in Objective-C
Looking at memory management in Objective-C for the first time can be a little bit strange whether you have programming experience or not. Some memory seems to be auto-magically handled for you; other...
View Articleon silhouettes
on silhouettes is Fancy Rat Studios first puzzle game on the market. This extremely simple game will be sure to cause some head scratching as you play through 320 levels in 5 different modes of play....
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Fun with cocosDenshion and Audio Metering [Update]
For those of you that have gotten a chance to use CocosDenshion, it is the sound engine written by Steve Oldmeadow. It’s great since loading audio effects and music for us was quite a task beforehand....
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