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8 Sensational iPhone Game Engines (2D and 3D)

 After finishing up a contract,  I  decided to start work on my first graphical iPhone game title.  Originally I had set out to create to an iPhone game, and tested out several of the engines available, but put things on hold to work on some small contracted apps.  Now I’ve decided to get back to that, and took another look at the iPhone game engines available, so here they are with a small writeup about each engine.

16 Killer iPhone OpenGL ES Resources

Here’s my updated list of OpenGL ES resources, this list includes tutorials, engines, blogs, and books.  I have updated it to include a couple of OpenGL ES 2.0 resources, and many other OpenGL ES 1.x resources that others have shared with me.

I have created a new version of this list at: 18 OpenGL ES Resources That You Must Know!

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Easiest Game Creation For iPhone

Something I seem to be asked alot of on twitter is “What is the easiest way to make games for the iPhone?”. Usually from individuals who have developed games in Flash or using a program such as the windows Gamemaker. Game development using Objective-C and OpenGL ES is considerably more difficult.

OpenGL GluPerspective Function In iPhone OpenGL ES

The second issue that I ran into when converting OpenGL code to iPhone OpenGL ES code was that the Glu libraries are missing and are widely used in OpenGL code.  Fortunately as I said in an earlier post there is a GluES project in which many of the Glu functions have been converted to run in OpenGL ES.  Now if you look in my code for Nehe Tutorial #2 on the iPhone I have added the functions:

Six Different 3D and 2D Iphone Game Engines

Since there always seems to be so many people asking on forums about iPhone game engines, and keeping with the theme of my last two posts I thought I would start keeping a list.

To begin with these are the ones that I know of (in alphabetical order): Read more...