Welcome to iPhoneGameTutorials.com! Check out our Tutorials page for a list of everything we've writtenProgramming Tutorials for iPhone Game Development – Cocos2d, Unity, and others!
So unless you’ve lived in a bubble you’ve heard that Apple has not only partially changed its policy on flash, but also posted its guidelines for getting into the app store. Obviously if the wall street journal is right then Apple wants to make more developers happy… Just don’t get too excited just yet.
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So I imagine you’re already coming from the “Getting Started with Cocos2d” tutorial previously posted here, therefore, I’m assuming you’re all squared away with getting the iPhone sdk and XCode setup. For those who might just need a refresher course, the instructions are fairly straightforward to get started with Cocos2d.
Today, we’re going to tackle the wonderful world of menus. You can’t make a game without menus and Cocos2d makes it super easy to do it. But even before we begin we need to make sure we have a system in place so that our game can easily expand so we’re going to also create a Scene Manager.
Source code after the break!
Continue reading ‘Cocos2d Menu Tutorial’
Cocos2D for iPhone is a great open source framework that makes it easy to make some very impressive 2d games with much less effort than having to know OpenGL directly or rely on a third party system that might have performance issues or be unnecessarily bloated. From the official cocos2d for iphone website:
Cocos2D for iPhone is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications. It is based on the cocos2d design: it uses the same concepts, but instead of using python it uses Objective-C.”
Many of the most complex features are done for you, but like any open source software you can make changes as required. I however, doubt you will need to do many modifications on your own given that it’s very easy to subclass and handle drawing yourself as you become more experienced. Using Cocos2d is really one of the best ways to get your feet wet with OpenGL programming and learning Objective-C. HOWEVER, it is a programming language and that means you will need to understand the fundamental concepts of programming.
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The current SDK version as of this writing is 4.0 and Apple is looking to only support up to 3.2 of the operating system, but it’s always good to have fall backs for devices with older operating systems (I still have an iTouch with 3.1.3). An older computer of mine had only version 10.5.8 so I was initially prevented from developing iPhone games because I was missing snow leopard. Apple still allows you to download older versions of XCode though, so pick the version that your operating system supports.
Continue reading ‘iPhone SDK Getting Started’
So you want to build a game and don’t know where to start. This is a very common issue that EVERYONE experiences when they start. The answer is: “It depends.” Seriously, don’t go away, let me explain…
Everyone has an opinion and all the frameworks have their plusses and minuses. Continue reading ‘iPhone Game Development – Getting Started’
The tutorials on iPhoneGameTutorials.com may contain mistakes, poor commenting and are meant to only be another resource in the arsenal of the iPhone game developer. There are books that we recommend on the site and we highly recommend you pick up a few, however, each programmers learning behavior is different therefore YMMV (Your milage may vary). Still you should pick up a few anyway…
Credit is given when possible – This is my homage to Jeff “NeHe” Molofeeone who’s site (nehe.gamedev.net) was one of the first opengl resources I used in my time and still a great resource.
We’ve organized our tutorials by both the game mechanic and the programming knowledge level required to pick it up. Click the links below to jump to a specific section:
Match 3
Slide Image
Tower Defense
RPG
Beginner
Intermediate
Advanced
Unity Tutorials:
Coming Soon
Torque 2d Tutorials:
Coming Soon
It’s up to you to take what you have learned from this site and apply it to projects of your own. Experiment with the code, read lots of books and ask questions in the forum or email us directly – Did I mention experiment with the code? Seriously it’s that important. We will also supply a plethora of very useful links that we’ve found helpful in our travels. Most of these sites are run by talented individuals that not only know their iphone development, they also program very well. Please keep all of this in mind while browsing my site. I hope you enjoy what we have to offer!
The site iPhone Game Tutorials came about like most things come about out of a need for a place where people can get a jump start into the iPhone game business. The internet is a big place, but it can sometimes feel a little more intimidating when you’re not sure what the right question is moving forward. Trust me…you need to have the right questions!
So this is where we stand – we here over at iphonegametutorials.com feel that we can hopefully answer a few of those questions, or at least put people on the right track.
These questions and more are the questions we hope to answer and along the way maybe make some good friends 
So please, download the tutorials or visit our knowledgeable iphone game development forums and ask us a question – maybe even answer one or two while you’re at it. We want to give people the right start and hopefully make some great games together in the process.
Sincerely,
MajorTom (aka Walter)
http://www.iphonegametutorials.com
Welcome one and all to the first post of this ambitious endeavor to bring game development knowledge to the iPhone. We’ll be showing different ways to create games on the iphone and hopefully give YOU the developer the best tools to make the next kick ass game.
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