iOS Game Development Cookbook

by Jonathon Manning, Paris Buttfield-Addison

Overview

Want to build games with iOS technologies? This cookbook provides detailed recipes for a wide range of common iOS game-development issues, ranging from 2D and 3D math to Game Center integration, and OpenGL to performance. If you’re familiar with iOS and Objective-C, this is the problem-solving guide you want.

Rather than focus on specific game engines for iOS, such as Cocos2D or the Corona SDK, the recipes in this cookbook strictly deal with baked-in iOS technologies. You’ll learn solutions for everything from tile-matching games to racing, with working code that you can use right away.

• Lay out the structure of your game
• Build and customize menus with UIKit
• Detect and respond to user input
• Use advanced techniques to play sound effects and music
• Work with data, using iOS devices and the cloud
• Create 2D graphics with SpriteKit
• Add physics simulation to your game
• Learn beginning to advanced 3D graphics
• Create challenges with artificial intelligence
• Use networking to add multiplayer capabilities
• Work with game controllers and multiple screens

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781449368760
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	05/08/2014
Pages:	393
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jon Manning is the co-founder of Secret Lab, an independent game development studio based in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Jon Manning is a game designer and programmer who’s worked on all kinds of projects, ranging from iPad games for children to instant messaging clients. Jon is about to submit a PhD exploring the manipulation of online social networks.Jon is the world’s biggest Horse_ebooks fan (https://twitter.com/Horse_ebooks), and can be found on Twitter as @desplesda.

Paris Buttfield-Addison is a mobile app engineer, game designer, and researcher with a passion for making technology simpler and as engaging as possible. Paris recently submitted a PhD investigating how people use tablets for information management.