How to implement a destroyable wall in iPhone game development

Question

Hi everybody.

I'm pretty routined in writing iPhone applications with common UIViews. To extend my skills, I wanted to write a simple 2D game where a player needs to break complex wall structure with limited shoots.

One shot should demage the wall, but not break through. A second shot at the same position would break through the wall.

No I ask myself how to handle such thing. I think drawing a shape wouldn't do the job since the wall should look damaged at the hit point.

I could draw the wall be setting single pixles. Then I could erase every set pixel in the impact area. But I think this would be very slow and memory consuming.

How to manage such things ?

Answer 1

Have you considered using physics engine such as Box2D/Chipmunk to make a wall of boxes like in games such as Angry Bird?