A few weeks ago I mentioned the Moai SDK. An open source iOS game development kit allowing for development of iOS apps (and Android apps) in Lua. What I really liked about the engine that it has already been used in could be extended to support any functionality within the iOS SDK. At that time […]
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Recently I received a few comments and e-mails stating that the beginner’s game programming tutorial featured on this site had issues when running with Xcode 4. I decided to test things out, and had no issues when running the tutorial in Xcode 4 with the latest release version of the SDK. You can see a […]
If you’re app makes extensive use of trigonometry (and if you’re working on game development then you probably are) then you probably make extensive use of the built in math functions. This isn’t the first open source iPhone math library to offer a speed increase, but it is the only one as far as I […]
Sparrow, the game framework I used in my iOS programming tutorial on creating an action game, has recently added a new feature to easily handle the higher screen resolutions provided by the retina display of the iPhone 4. I hope to update the tutorial to utilize this new feature in the near future. A new […]
Welcome to my game programming tutorial on how to create a beginners action game for the iOS. This is a step by step tutorial for creating an iPhone action game. The principles taught also apply to the iPad. You can see the result of a game running the code in the video below: The graphics […]
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 […]
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 […]
Just like to turn you guys on to what is the best iPhone game tutorial with videos on the web so far in case you haven’t seen them. Please note that this is not the simplest iPhone game programming tutorials as you will be building an OpenGL game engine from scratch. This does also make […]