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I don't quite understand the one star reviews of this book, I'm also an iPhone Developer (or attempting to be one) and not a great coder but this book delivers, it sets up a solid framework for games that can be re-used time and again and it actually deals with things in a stage by stage manner. Some iPhone Game Books never even mention sprites or show how to run animations and surely this is necessary in a book about how to create games for the iPhone, this book does both. The book also deals with both 2D and 3D games and both sections are packed with info. The downloadable source code has been updated to reflect what is now available in the SDK 3.0 there is also a 'read me' text giving errata from the book so I don't even understand this complaint unless the other reviewers read 'Read me' as 'don't read me'.
The book lays a solid foundation and the framework they set up does work, it took me 2 days of reading the book and using the code to set up the beginnings of a game. Obviously every game is different so much of the code is useless as one would expect but if you can't write your own game code and are relying on other people to do it for you surely you are in the wrong business.
I have virtually every iPhone Programming book there is (like many rubbish programmers I'm convinced a wealth of books makes up for a lack of insight), including all the Game Programming books and this is the ONLY game programming book worth buying. Highly recommended.
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iPhone Game Development: Developing 2D & 3D games in Objective-C (Animal Guide) Overviews
What do you need to know to create a game for the iPhone? Even if you've already built some iPhone applications, developing games using iPhone's gestural interface and limited screen layout requires new skills. With iPhone Game Development, you get everything from game development basics and iPhone programming fundamentals to guidelines for dealing with special graphics and audio needs, creating in-game physics, and much more.
Loaded with descriptive examples and clear explanations, this book helps you learn the technical design issues particular to the iPhone and iPod Touch, and suggests ways to maximize performance in different types of games. You also get plug-in classes to compensate for the areas where the iPhone's game programming support is weak.
- Learn how to develop iPhone games that provide engaging user experiences
- Become familiar with Objective-C and the Xcode suite of tools
- Learn what it takes to adapt the iPhone interface to games
- Create a robust, scalable framework for a game app
- Understand the requirements for implementing 2D and 3D graphics
- Learn how to add music and audio effects, as well as menus and controls
- Get instructions for publishing your game to the App Store
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Customer Review
Just okay - Charles -
Overall the book gets the job done, but the examples are not very well written. You have to guess at what the author really wants you to do in a lot areas. In the first chapter he tells you to modify classes that he hasn't even had you create yet! In other areas of the book he tells you to create classes but doesn't tell you what to choose for their subclass.
After suffering through the book though, I have made a lot of improvements in my game code.
Extremely Frustrating Read... - R. DiNicolas - Phoenix, Arizona USA
I'm a pretty experienced developer (5 years web development in ruby, python, js & java), but new to objective-c. I got through "Programming in Objective-c 2.0" relatively easily. I'm new to drag and drop, gui driven programming so I was hoping the primer in interface builder would help out in that area. Turns out it didn't. In fact, I found it extremely frustrating. You really need a decent amount of experience with interface builder to follow the examples because the example steps are incomplete. There's a lot of "...and now, add this line to your code"... well, I've got 3 view controllers... which one exactly?
I understand the author expects the reader to use their brain, but I'd rather experiment after I get the example working. It's not good that after only 25 pages into the book, I was extremely frustrated. There wasn't a single moment when reading "Programming in Objective-c 2.0" where I didn't completely understand the concepts discussed. The author clearly states: "To get the most out of this book, you will need to have some programming knowledge." That's complete BS, you need a decent amount of xcode specific experience for this book.
I may come back to the book after I get some iphone specific experience. Right now I wouldn't recommend it to anyone starting off on this platform. To be honest, I'm not sure I want to invest any more time in this book.
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