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CHAPTER 1: GAMES ON IOS 3
What Makes a Good iOS Game? 4
Device Usage 4
Use Unique Features of iOS 4
Make Your Game Fun 5
Graphics and Design 6
Developing Your Idea 6
Documenting Your Game 6
Prototyping ... be interested in writing
a game for iOS. Why do you want to write a game? There are some great reasons to write a
game for iOS, fi rst and foremost is that writing a game is fun! You can escape ... your
game. Writing games for iOS can also be fi nancially rewarding. With the ubiquity of iOS
devices, millions of people can play your game. Moreover, since you will distribute your game
in...
... you the finer
points of iOS application development.
The most important tool you’ll be using to develop iOS applications is called Xcode. Xcode is
Apple’s integrated development environment ... sheet is divided into two main sections: iOS and Mac OS X.
Since we’re building an iOS application, select Application in the iOS section to reveal the iOS
application templates.
Each of the ... you want to clear out old applications from the iOS simulator’s home screen, you can choose
iOS Simulator ➤ Reset Content and Settings… from the iOS simulator’s application menu.
Bring It on Home
Pat...
... unexpected results. This type of game usually
appeals to adolescents or hard-core RPG gamers.
• Games of Chance—Any game based upon random result. Most casino games are games
of chance, with a little ... using a more sophisticated game board, as
with Trivial Pursuit.
Most game shows are based on trivia. The audience for trivia games is the mass market.
• Word Games—These games involve the creation ... board games such as chess, Reversi, Connect Four, and
checkers are strategy games. The audience for this type of classic turn-based game is truly
mass market.
• Role Playing Games (RPG)—These games...
... the games you’re building onto your iOS device. To do
so, you must create an iPhone Development Certificate, register your iOS device, and
enable it for development. Finally, you’ll create Development ... share of my gamedevelopment experiences to show how
interactive games are made. I believe that learning to program is not at all about
memorizing API methods, yet a lot of gamedevelopment ... director for Nanaimo Studio, a game studio
based out of Seattle and Shanghai that specializes in web and mobile
games. He has extensive experience with gamedevelopment and
interactive media,...
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Development Models Available in SharePoint ... get you to the next level from a development perspective. You can also inte-
grate either third-party or your own custom cloud-based services to round out the development
experience.
For this...
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About GameSalad Pro
Going Pro has several advantages, especially if you intend to get a serious
business out of game development.
A Pro account will enable you to publish on iOS without the
GameSaladsplashscreen ... design environment. You can now move on
to the fun of GameSalad. Let’s create some games!
Summary
Well, the most boring part is done. GameSalad development required this small
sacrifice. From here ... methods. In reality, this is no surprise. GameSalad only hides
the programming aspects of iOS development! The iOSdevelopment
language is Objective-C, and guess what? Objective-C is an object-
oriented...
... you the finer
points of iOS application development.
The most important tool you’ll be using to develop iOS applications is called Xcode. Xcode is
Apple’s integrated development environment ... become a registered iOS developer. Apple requires this step before
you’re allowed to download the iOS SDK.
To sign up as a developer, just navigate to http://developer.apple.com /ios/ . That will ... that
people are using software everywhere they go. With the release of iOS 6, and the latest incarnation
of the iOS software development kit (SDK), things have only gotten better and more interesting.
What...
...
language, for creating 3D iOS games. I have used the technology extensively and used it to create
a full commercial physics puzzle type game for iOS similar to the iOSgame Angry Birds. It is ...
powerful tool that is excellent for iOS development. My intention here is to give others a
quickstart guide for creating their own iOS games and share game frameworks I’ve developed
that readers ... using Kismet on older iOS devices. At
least one poster on the iOSdevelopment forum on the official UDK message board
complained that older iOS devices would only run his game if most of the...
... called
usability.
Having far less development
resources to tap than Microsoft, Eidos
Chapter 3: What Makes GameDevelopment Hard?
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ruthless pursuit of a clean, tight game
can you hope to make a great game.
The rest ... with no
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Chapter 3: What Makes GameDevelopment Hard?
A Brief History of Software Development
How to make a game, I believe, is the
most elusive question in the game
industry. In fact, the software ... including the
PC, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, N64,
Game Boy Color, GameCube, and Xbox.
Role-Playing Games
Role-Playing Games
No discussion of game making could be
complete without discussing storytell
-
ing....
... primarily used for
creating games. The framework comes with a game engine that allows you to create loop-based games
and a 3D engine that allows you to create 3D games.
In the following sections, ...
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Application Development Life Cycle
It’s important to understand the application development life cycle helps you prepare for it. In-depth
discussion of the application development life ... Blend for Windows Phone: This tool can be used to design
UIs.
• XNA Game Studio 4: This includes tools for developing games. This was originally
developed for programming for Xbox, but the...
... 1-10. The iOS
Dev Center contains all the tools necessary to build iOS apps.
Later on you will spend time here, but for now just go to the
Developer Page of the latest build of the iOS SDK. ... i
Beginning iOS
Storyboarding with
Xcode
Easily Design and Develop Your App, from Concept
and Vision to Code
■ ■ ■
Rory Lewis
Yulia McCarthy
Stephen M. Moraco
ii
Beginning ... log in to the main iOSdevelopment page
at http://developer.apple.com. This page has three icons for
the three types of Apple programmers. As shown on Figure 1-9,
click the iOS Dev Center icon,...
... iPod touch
Beginning
iPhone 4 Development
Exploring the iOS SDK
Dave Mark
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Jack Nutting
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Jeff LaMarche
Covers
iPad and
iPod touch
Mark
Nutting
LaMarche
iPhone 4 Development
Beginning
Companion ... and current APIs, with brand new
screenshots showing iOS 4 and Xcode 3 in action.
Beginning iPhone 4 Development is a complete course in iOS development. You’ll
master techniques that work on ... mind some key differences
between iOSdevelopment and desktop application development.
CHAPTER 1: Welcome to the Jungle
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Only One Active Application
On iOS, only one application can be active...
... following to play
the game type for the hands-on example in Chapter 2:
[Engine.GameInfo]
DefaultGame=ExampleCh2.ExampleCh 2Game
DefaultServerGame=ExampleCh2.ExampleCh 2Game
Next, we need to ... your game to the iOS device where
you can run it like any other iOS application. At this point the icon representing
your UDK game should appear on your iOS device ready to run.
NOTE: Epic Games ...
http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/AppleiOSProvisioningSetup.html
Running the UDK Game on the iOS Device
In order to play a game developed in the UDK on an actual iOS device, you need to
package the game and then deploy it to the iOS device. After obtaining...