Another excellent week to be an iOS developer, and some big news in the department of iOS game development with the release of Cocos2D V1.0.0 and the opening of the Moai SDK beta to everyone. Also some great open source libraries and tutorials were shared. If you have written a tutorial, open source library or […]
Tag: game engine
As you may have noticed if you have been reading this site for awhile, I occasionally mention product updates. This one is pretty significant as after numerous release candidates the incredibly successful open source Cocos2D iPhone game engine has finally released v1.0.0. There are an incredible amount of feature updates since the previous official release […]
Found out about a pretty cool tool for those looking to develop games using Box2D (especially if you’re using Cocos2D — but really good for anyone using Box2D) called SpriteHelper. It is a notch above the other tools I’ve seen doing similar. What the tool allows you to do is easily gather information on any […]
Going through the dozens of comments awaiting moderation because of my absence I noticed several comments about a couple of changes that have occured with the Sio2 Interactive game engine and the Corona SDK. As many visiting this site probably know I have been maintaining an open source iPhone game engine and commercial iPhone game […]
Microsoft’s XNA has persevered and become popular with hobbyist game developers on the Windows and Xbox 360 platforms. While I haven’t really fooled around with it much, I’ve always felt it would be nice to be able to develop XNA games that ran on the iPhone. A project known as XNATouch aims to make […]
There are several iPhone game engines available, and of course Cocos2D is extremely popular in the development of 2D games on the iPhone and has a considerable community beside it. That being said, if you’re just starting out, or you just don’t like how things are done with what’s out there I’ve found a great […]
It’s been awhile since I’ve written about the Sio2 game engine. For those that don’t know, Sio2 is an open source iPhone game engine that works directly with the open-source 3D modeling software Blender. It’s undergone quite a few upgrades in recent times, and has been used in the creation of many apps in the […]
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 […]