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iPhone games are hot! Just look at the numbers. Games make up over 25 percent of total apps and over 70 percent of the most popular apps. Surprised? Of course not! Most of us have filled our iPhone or iPod touch with games, and many of us hope to develop the next best-selling, most talked-about game.
You’ve probably already read and mastered Beginning iPhone 3 Development; Exploring the iPhone SDK, the best-selling, the second edition of Apress’s highly acclaimed introduction to the iPhone and iPod touch by developers Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche. This book is the game-specific equivalent, providing you with the same easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach, more deep technical insights, and that familiar friendly style.
While games are all about fun, at the same time, they’re serious business. With this book, you’re going to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty with some hardcore coding. While you may have written games before, this book will take you further, immersing you in the following topics:
- Game graphics and animation with UIKit, Quartz, Core Animation, and OpenGL ES
- Game audio with OpenAL, MediaPlayer Framework, AV Foundation, and AudioSession
- Game networking with GameKit, Bonjour, and Internet sharing
What you’ll learn
- Efficient methods for drawing in 2D and 3D to the iPhone screen
- Game-specific animation techniques with Core Animation
- To use OpenGL ES for more complex and realistic gaming backgrounds and action
- Numerous ways to add music to enhance the gaming experience
- How to give your users access to their iPhone libraries from within games
- The tools and techniques of 3D audio for creating even more realistic gaming experiences
- How to do networking right, including two-player games over Bluetooth and multiplayer games over Wi-Fi
Who this book is for
All game developers who desire to create iPhone and/or iPod touch games
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Table of Contents
- A Revolutionary Gaming Platform
- Games for Everyone, Anytime, Anywhere
- Developing iPhone Games
- Peeking Inside the iPhone Toolbox
- Moving Images on a Small Screen—UIKit Controls
- She Shoots, She Hits, She Scores!
- Flipping Out and Sweeping Away with Core Animation
- OpenGL Basics: Wrapping Your Head
- Around the OpenGL AP
- Putting It Together: Making a Game in OpenGL
- The Next Steps: Atlases, Sprites, and Particles—Oh My
- Introduction to Core Audio
- Making Noise with OpenAL
- 3D Audio—Turning Noise into Game Sound
- Streaming: Thumping, Pulse-Quickening
- Game Excitement
- Networking for iPhone Games: Introductio
- Going Head to Head
- Party Time
- Connecting with the Outside World
- Putting It All Together: Now Comes the Fun Part
About the Author
PJ Cabrera is a long-time Mac developer.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I pretty much bought the book as a reference for programming on the Iphone. Since I came from C++ background and this was the only book available for game development developing on the Iphone I decided to buy it.
The book contains a lot of bad code and typing errors. A perfect example is on the pages 264 / 265. Where one of the authors explains how to load a texture into OpenGL. He uses to load a image using:
UIImage* uiImage = [[UIImage alloc]] initWithContentOfFile
Soon after that he uses to draw that same image using
CGContextDrawImage(spritecontext, CGRect(), cgImage);
The bad coding type error is that the author uses cgImage as the image file, while it should have been uiImage. Also in the book cgImage is never used.
The authors also want that the reader uses the example code which can be found on the publishers site, the problem is that the example code of chapter 8 and the template contains a memory leak which will cause the Iphone Simulator to crash. So use it on your own risk.
Also the authors often assume that the reader is not a smart person because they often start certain paragraphs with for example:
"What is [subject] and why should I care?". Which makes me wonder if the authors done research into the target audience. On the back cover of the book, they expect that the reader already knowns the Iphone SDK (which gives an impression that the user should already know how to program OOP). The authors also sometimes use Design Patterns like Singleton, without any explanation why to use that technique. So why assume that the reader is not smart?
At the start of the book the authors explain they have checked the book's quality themselves, which pretty much explains the poorness of the quality (they should have let it checked by the target audience).
The few of the highlights of the book is that they do tell something about OpenAL.
It is difficult to recommend this book for someone because the book contains a lot of programming errors and the example code is not really useful. To be honest if you are an experienced programmer who can see through the errors, this book can be useful as a reference. But if you are not, please stay far away from this book.
The book contains a lot of bad code and typing errors. A perfect example is on the pages 264 / 265. Where one of the authors explains how to load a texture into OpenGL. He uses to load a image using:
UIImage* uiImage = [[UIImage alloc]] initWithContentOfFile
Soon after that he uses to draw that same image using
CGContextDrawImage(spritecontext, CGRect(), cgImage);
The bad coding type error is that the author uses cgImage as the image file, while it should have been uiImage. Also in the book cgImage is never used.
The authors also want that the reader uses the example code which can be found on the publishers site, the problem is that the example code of chapter 8 and the template contains a memory leak which will cause the Iphone Simulator to crash. So use it on your own risk.
Also the authors often assume that the reader is not a smart person because they often start certain paragraphs with for example:
"What is [subject] and why should I care?". Which makes me wonder if the authors done research into the target audience. On the back cover of the book, they expect that the reader already knowns the Iphone SDK (which gives an impression that the user should already know how to program OOP). The authors also sometimes use Design Patterns like Singleton, without any explanation why to use that technique. So why assume that the reader is not smart?
At the start of the book the authors explain they have checked the book's quality themselves, which pretty much explains the poorness of the quality (they should have let it checked by the target audience).
The few of the highlights of the book is that they do tell something about OpenAL.
It is difficult to recommend this book for someone because the book contains a lot of programming errors and the example code is not really useful. To be honest if you are an experienced programmer who can see through the errors, this book can be useful as a reference. But if you are not, please stay far away from this book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I came to this book having completed the excellent Beginning iPhone 3 development book and it's sequel More iPhone 3 development. However I was sadly disappointed that the quality and care put into this book was nowhere nears as good as Dave Mark's and Jeff LaMarche's books. To say the code listings in this book are buggy is a massive understatement - whole methods are missing, there are numerous typos and the source code is completely different in places to the book listing. Also the explanations given by the book are inadequate and assume too much knowledge for a beginner book - e.g at the end of chapter 4 the author provides a very brief explanation of the Asteroids Quartz 2d game which is begging for a more in depth walkthrough given that this book is meant to be teaching the reader how to make games. Overall not a good learning tool and very clumsily put together. Avoid.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has awful grammatical errors. Tries to call methods that it hasn't told you to write. It is more like a jumbled collection of faulty code that goes no where. Avoid if your a beginner. If your a pro you may find it amusing.
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Good Book for beginners to follow through while on the computer
I thought this book was a good buy. Its a thick book and im using it as I go along while making my game and its helping out a lot.
Published 16 months ago by D. Harris
Some good information but buggy and probably wasn't proof read
As a Chartered Engineer, programming in C for over 15 years, I'd been looking forward to dabbling with developing some applications for the iphone and in particular learning a bit... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Stephen
great book
a great book. simple, funny, yet very effective in explaining the main topics of video game programming on iphone. All aspects of graphic programming explained. Read more
Published 18 months ago by alfredo
On the other hand...
I've only covered the first 60 pages, but what I've read so far is brilliant! There are some typos, sure (well, one that I've come across so far) - but there's a really helpful... Read more
Published 20 months ago by Vinogradov
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