iPhone Game Development by Zirkle, Paul -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

iPhone Game Development

Preface

The Authors Our Goal Prerequisites Audience Organization of This Book Conventions Used in This Book Using Code Examples We’d Like to Hear from You Safari® Books Online Acknowledgments

1. Introduction to the iPhone

Apple Developer Account and Downloading the SDK

Application Bundles Xcode and Interface Builder Views and Controllers

Adding a new View and View Controller to an existing window Adding a new View to an existing View Controller Proxy objects

Loading Devices

Certificates and Profiles

App ID UDID WWDR certificate Installing the profile

Xcode Configuration

Objective-C Primer

Classes Instantiation Messaging Member Variables Memory Management Constructors and Destructors Interface Builder Integration Mixed C++ and Objective-C

Conclusion

2. Game Engine Anatomy

Application Framework

Main Loop

Game State Manager

State Machine

Graphics Engine

Texturing

Pixels, textures, and images Transparency Texture blending Rotation Clipping

Animation

Two-dimensional animation: Sprites Three-dimensional animation: Models Animation controllers Particle systems Culling Texture sorting Texture files Resource management Level of detail

Physics Engine

Collision detection versus collision resolution Two-dimensional collision detection Three-dimensional collision detection Collision resolution

Audio Engine

Sound samples Playing sound Multichannel sound Music versus SFX Output devices and interruptions

Player Input

Touch events Resolving into high-level events

Game Logic

High-level events Artificial intelligence Transparent suspend and resume Frame-based versus time-based logic Game logic organization

Conclusion

3. The Framework

Game State Management

Implementation Removing the Status Bar

The App Delegate

Frames per Second

Event Handling The Resource Manager

Texture Format Sound Format Deploying Resources Management

The Render Engine

GLESGameState Textures Font Textures Example State

The Sound Engine

Example State

The Data Store

Storing Simple Data Storing Complex Data Example State

The Skeleton Application Conclusion

4. 2D Game Engine

Game Design

Feature List User Input Scheme Learning Curve

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4

Tile Engine

Unique Tiles Drawing Tiles TileWorld Class

Loading Rendering Camera Physics

Animation

Animation and Sprite Classes

Property list Animation class Sprite class

Physics

Entities Entity-to-World Special Tiles Entity-to-Entity

Level 1 Implementation

gsEmuLevel TileWorld Main Character

Entity gsEmuLevel User input

Emu Chicks

Entity gsEmuLevel

Emu Mother Game Logic Sound

Level 2 Implementation

gsLionLevel TileWorld McGuffin Main Character Lion Entities

Entity gsLionLevel

Game Logic Sound

Level 3 Implementation

gsMazeLevel TileWorld Buttons Doors Cat and Mouse User Input Game Logic

Initialization Context action Update

Sounds

Level 4 Implementation

gsRiverLevel TileWorld Crocodiles Logs Tom User Input Game Logic

Initialization Update

Sounds

Game State Serialization

Initialize Storage End Game Modify UI

Conclusion

5. 3D Games

GLESGameState3D Class

POWERVR

Vectors and matrixes Model format 3ds Max plug-in Texture format

Sprite3D Accelerometer

3D Game Design

Graphics

Ship Hoops Skybox Particle system 2D elements

Input

Accelerometer Thruster

Camera Logic

Implementation

Camera Skybox Input

Calibration Thrusters

Rings

Layout Implementation

Particle System Logic Best Times End Game

Conclusion

6. Considerations for Game Design

Resource Management User Input Design Networking Third-Party Code

Libraries Middleware Open Source Games

App Store Conclusion

A. References

Code Reference Physics Libraries Middleware Open Source Games

Index Colophon

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