So, you’ve written your first hello world app and you want to get right into game dev - GREAT IDEA!

There’s a couple of ways to make games for the iPhone (eg using the general iphone UI libraries , using opengl es directly, or using a framework), and you should evaluate each way based on your requirements.

I chose to use a framework called cocos2d-iphone.  It provides an excellent approach to graphics programming by implementing “scenes” and “layers”.  To get started on this, jump over to monocle studios who have written an excellent introduction to cocos2d-iphone whitepaper.  They even provide a sample cocos2d project for your convenience!

Next post I’ll get a little more in depth into cocos2d and the chipmunk physics frameworks.

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 @ 11:30 pm iphone development
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