iphone game dev

[Anonymous]

hi

i was thinking of getting into the ios game dev and i am just looking for a few pointers, maybe people on the forums went through this themselves.
i have a programming/game dev background with c++, java, c# etc but never worked with obj c and i heard its not that much different.
can anyone suggest any decent sites with starting tutorials or perhaps some nice books to get me started, except the apple one of course.

[Anonymous]

A friend got "Learn Objective-C for Java Developer" and thought it quite useful.

"Learn Objective-C for Java Developers will guide experienced Java developers into the world of Objective-C. It will show them how to take their existing language knowledge and design patterns and transfer that experience to Objective-C and the Cocoa runtime library."
http://www.wowebook.com/java/learn-objective-c-for-java-developers.html

I picked up Objective-C from making apps (Which is where most of the books are geared) and some one page sites explaining the differences between it and C++ & java and sounds like your on a similar solid starting ground.

[Anonymous]

I use iPhone 3D Programming by O’Reilly publishing as a reference. It talks about OpenGL ES.

I prefer having the book in front of me, but here is the pre-release online version – http://iphone-3d-programming.labs.oreilly.com/index.html

The only programming I have done on the iPhone (purely as a hobbsyt) has been using OpenGL with C++.

You can create an instance of a C++ class in a Objective C class. In the program’s main Obj C class’s loop I simply make calls to my game’s/program’s main C++ class. Keeps me from having to learn Obj C – for now!

david

[Anonymous]

thanks guys. will have a look

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