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Posts Tagged ‘game’

Beginners iPhone Action Game Tutorial: Source Code

A few weeks ago I posted a short video similar to this one:

UPDATE: Tutorial Has been posted!

I’ve been asked since then when I would come out with the tutorial.   I was finally able to get around to completing the source file, and I’ve added line by line (well pretty close) comments in plain english to make it easier to follow.

The above video utilizes the exact source code from this tutorial running in the iPhone simulator.

Great Cocos2D iOS Example Featuring Common Game Elements

As Cocos2D has increased it’s feature set it has become increasingly difficult to keep up with the many features of the engine. The game has evolved from a simple rendering engine with some timing control into a full-fledged 2D game engine.

Fortunately there is an active community and some great examples are available. You can find examples of almost anything.

I found this example to be particularly exceptional, as it contains many desired game elements — including:

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.  Please note that this is not the simplest iPhone game tutorial as you will be building an OpenGL game engine from scratch.  This does also make this a great iPhone opengl tutorial.

– Update Jan. 2nd 2010 – Tutorial 11 has been added, and I have upgrade this list to reflect that.

iPhone Game Engine Comparison – Open Source

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.

There are several open source game engines to choose from, and many cropping up all the time.  On this page I have only listed those that I know have been used in games already available on the iPhone or iPad.  I have chosen not to list those for which there are no apps available in the app store.

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.