If one ship is moving toward another and fires on it, how do I animate that explosion while having the firing ship keep moving? Using something such as cocos2d in a 2D game. Any online references are appreciated.
Also, does anyone have a reference to the crashlanding game that use to be on the Apple developer site?
You could use this open-source particle-system for the iPhone. The original author has some posts about it on his blog.
how do I animate that explosion while having the firing ship keep moving?
If you are using the default OpenGL ES Xcode template, you should already have seperated draw/update loops. So you could update the particle system within -(void)updateView and remove the ship from your scene data structure after the explosion is over.
Also, does anyone have a reference to the crashlanding game that use to be on the Apple developer site?
Apple pulled it because the audio code was no longer usable after iPhone OS 2.1