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Phone games are hot! Just look at the numbers. Over 25% of apps are games,
there are 40% more games than any other app category, and 70% of the most
popular apps are games. Surprised? Of course not! We’ve all filled our iPhones
(and don’t forget the iPod touch!) with games, and which of us isn’t hoping to
develop the next best selling, most talked about, hottest game?
What you’ll learn:

How to use efficient methods for drawing in 2D and 3D to the iPhone
• screen

How to do networking right, including two-player games over BlueTooth
• and
multiplayer games over WiFi

You’ve probably already read and mastered Beginning iPhone 3 Development;
Exploring the iPhone SDK 3, the best-selling, second edition of Apress highlyacclaimed introduction for iPhone and iPod touch developers by Dave Mark
and Mark LaMarche. Beginning iPhone Games Development is the game-specific
equivalent, with the same easy-to-follow, step-by-step approach, deep technical insights, and friendly approach. After all, we’re talking about games!
At the same time, games are serious business. You may have written games before, even your first iPhone game, but now you’re going to immerse yourself in:

• Game graphics and animation with UIKit, Quartz, Core Animation, and
OpenGL ES

• Game audio with OpenAL, MediaPlayer Framework, AVFoundations,
and AudioSession

• Game networking with GameKit, Bonjour, and Internet Sharing
You’re going to want to roll up your sleeves and be prepared to get your hands
dirty with some hardcore coding.



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• Numerous ways to add music to enhance the gaming experience
• How to give your users access to their iPhone libraries from within games
The tools and techniques of 3D audio for creating even more realistic
• gaming
experiences

Essential Guide for all iPhone
and iPod touch Game Developers

iPhone Games Development

• Game-specific animation techniques with Core Animation
To use OpenGL ES for more complex and realistic gaming backgrounds
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To the dearest people, my family: Mom, Dad, Olya, Mike and Lena
– Peter Bakhirev
To my family, for always being supportive of my dreams.
– PJ Cabrera
To my loving wife Gina, who puts up with my addiction to iPhone game development.
– Ian Marsh
To my lovely wife Leonie.
– Ben Britten Smith
With great love, to my mother, who lost her fight to GIST cancer shortly before this book came to
press. Her courage and determination will always be an inspiration to me.
– Eric Wing

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