Posts Tagged ‘game’
Incredible iPhone Game Programming Tutorials With Video
Just like to turn you guys on to what are the best video iPhone game programming tutorials on the web so far in case you haven’t seen them.
– Update Jan. 2nd 2010 – Tutorial 11 has been added, and I have upgrade this list to reflect that.
These tutorials are from 71 squared. They run through the steps to creating a game on the iPhone in tremendous detail, and include source code. Included are in-depth videos.
The Open Source iPhone Game Engine Comparison
I’m often asked about which iPhone game engine to use, and I know most people are looking for a free game engine so here is a comparison of the different open source iPhone game engines that actually have apps out there.
Cocos2D for IPhone
The Cocos2D iPhone game engine is a port of a game engine originally created in Python and converted to iPhone Objective-C. As you can tell from the name, Cocos2D is designed for 2D games, that being said, although the engine is in a 2D world, the engine includes a growing collection of high quality 3D special effects.
Doing Some iPhone Game Programming
Just in case there’s any graphics designers interested, I have finally finished off some more of the contract work, and with a lighter load, my next ambition is to do some iPhone game programming.
Update For Cocos 2D iPhone Game Engine
The excellent and free Cocos2D iPhone game engine has been updated with a plethora of new features.
The highlights include:
- a new sound engine
- touch dispatcher
- faster actions
- an improved particle system
If you haven’t tried Cocos and are looking to develop a 2d game on the iPhone quickly without having to purchase a commercial engine you should check out Cocos2D here.
[via cocos2d for iPhone]
11 Cocos2D iPhone Game Engine Resources
I mentioned the open source Cocos2D iPhone game engine on my list of iPhone game engines.
For those that don’t know Cocos2D is an open source LGPL licensed 2D game engine for the iPhone that has already been used in many games. Mitch Allen has posted a nice list of resources for the open source Cocos 2D iPhone game engine.
My favorites from the list are:
1. iPhone Dev – Which contains a collection of Cocos 2D tutorials for beginners.