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Praise for Learning iOS Game Programming
“An excellent introduction into the world of game development explaining every aspect of game design and implementation for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices. A great way for anyone interested in writing games to get started.”
–Tom Bradley, Software Architect, Designer of TBXML
“A great developer and a great game.That’s everything you can find in this book to learn how to write an awesome game for iPhone.Maybe you’re the next AppStore hit!”
–Sebastien Cardoso
“With Learning iOS Game Programming, you’ll be writing your own games in no time. The code included is well explained and will save you hours of looking up obscure stuff in the documentation and online forums.”
–Pablo Gomez Basanta, Founder, Shifting Mind
“I always thought that to teach others one has to be an expert and a person with an established reputation in the field. Michael Daley proved me wrong. He is teaching others while studying himself. Michael’s passion in teaching and studying, ease of solutions to problems, and a complete game as a resulting project makes this book one of the best I have ever read.”
–Eugene Snyetilov
“If you’re interested in 2D game programming with the iOS using OpenGL and OpenAL directly, this book walks you through creating a complete and fun game without getting bogged down in technical details.”
–Scott D.Yelich
“Michael Daley brings clarity to the haze of iPhone application development. Concrete examples, thorough explanation, and timesaving tips make this book a must have for the up and coming iPhone game developer.”
–Brandon Middleton, Creator of Tic Tac Toe Ten
“This is the A-Z guide to iOS game development; Michael’s book takes you from the basics and terminology to using the techniques in practice on a fully working game. Before you know it, you will find yourself writing your own game, fueled by a firm grasp of the principles and techniques learned within. I could not ask for a better reference in developing our own games.”
–Rod Strougo, Founder Prop Group
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Get Started Fast with iOS Game Programming
Since the launch of the App Store, games have been the hottest category of apps for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. That means your best chance of tapping into the iPhone/iPad “Gold Rush” is to put out a killer game that everyone wants to play (and talk about). While many people think games are hard to build, they can actually be quite easy, and Learning iOS Game Programming is your perfect beginner’s guide. Michael Daley walks you through every step as you build a killer 2D game for the iPhone.
In Learning iOS Game Programming, you’ll learn how to build a 2D tile map game, Sir Lamorak’s Quest: The Spell of Release (which is free in the App Store). You can download and play the game you’re going to build while you learn about the code and everything behind the scenes. Daley identifies the key characteristics of a successful iPhone game and introduces the technologies, terminology, and tools you will use. Then, he carefully guides you through the whole development process: from planning storylines and game play all the way through testing and tuning.
Download the free version of Sir Lamorak’s Quest from the App Store today, while you learn how to build the game in this book.
Coverage includes
- Planning high-level game design, components, and difficulty levels
- Using game loops to make sure the right events happen at the right time
- Rendering images, creating sprite sheets, and building basic animations
- Using tile maps to build large game worlds from small reusable images
- Creating fire, explosions, smoke, sparks, and other organic effects
- Delivering great sound via OpenAL and the iPhone’s media player
- Providing game control via iPhone’s touch and accelerometer features
- Crafting an effective, intuitive game interface
- Building game objects and entities and making them work properly
- Detecting collisions and ensuring the right response to them
- Polishing, testing, debugging, and performance-tuning your game
Learning iOS Game Programming focuses on the features, concepts, and techniques you’ll use most often—and helps you master them in a real-world context. This book is 100% useful and 100% practical; there’s never been an iPhone game development book like it!
Praise for Learning iOS Game Programming
“An excellent introduction into the world of game development explaining every aspect of game design and implementation for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices. A great way for anyone interested in writing games to get started.”
–Tom Bradley, Software Architect, Designer of TBXML
“A great developer and a great game.That’s everything you can find in this book to learn how to write an awesome game for iPhone.Maybe you’re the next AppStore hit!”
–Sebastien Cardoso
“With Learning iOS Game Programming, you’ll be writing your own games in no time. The code included is well explained and will save you hours of looking up obscure stuff in the documentation and online forums.”
–Pablo Gomez Basanta, Founder, Shifting Mind
“I always thought that to teach others one has to be an expert and a person with an established reputation in the field. Michael Daley proved me wrong. He is teaching others while studying himself. Michael’s passion in teaching and studying, ease of solutions to problems, and a complete game as a resulting project makes this book one of the best I have ever read.”
–Eugene Snyetilov
“If you’re interested in 2D game programming with the iOS using OpenGL and OpenAL directly, this book walks you through creating a complete and fun game without getting bogged down in technical details.”
–Scott D.Yelich
“Michael Daley brings clarity to the haze of iPhone application development. Concrete examples, thorough explanation, and timesaving tips make this book a must have for the up and coming iPhone game developer.”
–Brandon Middleton, Creator of Tic Tac Toe Ten
“This is the A-Z guide to iOS game development; Michael’s book takes you from the basics and terminology to using the techniques in practice on a fully working game. Before you know it, you will find yourself writing your own game, fueled by a firm grasp of the principles and techniques learned within. I could not ask for a better reference in developing our own games.”
–Rod Strougo, Founder Prop Group
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Really well done.,
This review is from: Learning iOS Game Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building Your First iPhone Game (Paperback)
It's a real shame that a company that produces such good product and innovation cannot invest in good learning products as well. Getting into iPhone game programming can be thorny endeavour, but this book led me into this daunting process with clear examples that were easy to understand and follow. He went a long way to demystifying the whole process, and I still refer to this book today. Unfortunately, IOS5 has changed a great deal of the landscape of his book, but the principles he provides are still there, hidden just under the changes and I still think his book has relevance.I tried several books and were disappointed, but this was the first that made good sense of it all, and I hope he updates it for IOS5. A grateful reader.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A great book for learning about games programming,
By Gavin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Learning iOS Game Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building Your First iPhone Game (Paperback)
Having nearly finished the book I thought it would be a good idea to write a review.Reading the last review I felt even more compelled to write my own. The last reviewer really hasn't got a clue about what this book is about! He tries to pitch it as a book that covers many different technologies in great detail and fails. There is a note on the first page of chapter 2 that tells that totally contradicts what he says. Note It is not intended that this book will teach you how to develop in Objective-C or C or teach you everything you need to know about the other technologies in their own right; there are many excellent books and online resources that cover OpenGL and OpenAL in greater detail. We will however cover these topics in enough detail to allow you to understand why we are using them and how. Thats what I love about this book! It tells you how to write an entire game from start to finish and doesn't bore you with incredibly complex algorithms or low level code or the ins and outs of every technology. As for the game engine you write, it's very modular so you can include only the bits you need in your game. I wanted to recreate the JetPack game I played when I was younger. With this book I'm well on the way. It's saved me a huge amount of time trying to learn from other resources on the net. Their forum and blog is quite active too, I've posted a few questions and they've answered promptly. 12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
This is why computer books used to come with CDs,
By Brian Connors - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Learning iOS Game Programming: A Hands-On Guide to Building Your First iPhone Game (Paperback)
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One thing to be very clear about: this book is largely about tile and sprite-based games, a la Legend of Zelda. It includes a fair bit of information about optimization and the like (the messaging overhead involved in the Objective-C runtime can slow you down, so dropping to straight C is not a bad idea sometimes). The instructions are reasonably clear, although the selection of development tools required is rather extensive. This is part of the problem -- with the increased amount of broadband internet access out there, computer book publishers have come to the conclusion that they don't need to include software with the books. A lot of the software in this book is already obsolete and not supported by its original authors, and some of it is Web-only, making them rather poor choices for any kind of professional development.However, the book does as advertised -- walks you through the steps of creating a basic game, while giving you enough background to understand what's going on along the way. And that, really, is all you need. Just beware that it might not be very useful a year or two from now. 12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of errors,
By James M. Hunter, Jr. - Published on Amazon.com
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Poorly edited. Many of the text references to the code use the wrong method names or quote the wrong lines of code altogether. It is absolutely essential to download the source code; there were many occasions where I found it necessary to look at more of the source than was printed in the book to understand what the text was saying. If you are willing to spend the time to sort out these problems, the book is otherwise not bad. The design of the game engine seems solid. The reader definitely needs to have at least a passing acquaintance with Objective C to understand the book. I am revising my previous 2-star review to 3 stars since the book is definitely useful in spite of its flaws. This review is based on the Kindle edition.
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