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BEGINNING iOS GAME DEVELOPMENT
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi

THE TOOLS TO GET STARTED

CHAPTER 1

Games on iOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

CHAPTER 2

The Xcode Programming Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17

CHAPTER 3

The C Programming Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

CHAPTER 4

The Objective-C Programming Language. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

CHAPTER 5

The Cocoa Foundation Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137

PART II

GAME BUILDING BLOCKS

CHAPTER 6

Drawing with UIKit and Core Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

CHAPTER 7

Responding to User Interaction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219

CHAPTER 8

Animating Your Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

CHAPTER 9

Making Noise with iOS Audio APIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289

CHAPTER 10

Building a Networked Game with GameKit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

APPENDIX

Answers to Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385

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