iPhone Game Development Diary

We love games, We make games & This is our journey bit by bit.

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Day 3: Cogs & Vectors

The mechanics are in place…just about! This means that we can start designing stuff like obstacles, sounds and polish off assets. It’s all getting a wee-bit exciting for us all to see our creation come to life. As it’s our first game we are spending a lot of time learning about our new tools as we go along, so that adds to the current excitement here at Fredquarters!

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Day 2: Py is Alive

Our game is called Py. It looks cool, so far. We gave Py the power to walk, we also gave him a platform to roam on and the ability to bounce. This has been rather challenging for us but we've got their in the end. Tomorrow we are aiming to get the movement of Py right, also implement a level and assign properties to our assets. In addition, we also plan on refining the controls to make it smoother. It's all very exciting to see an idea come to life, especially as it's our first voyage into the world of mobile development!

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A-Team

Not much of an update on the progress of the game, it's "going" though. This is more of a post on our additions to the team - my brothers.

We have Fabrice who predominately specialises in programming. However, the Corona SDK + Lua are new to him. So it may take a while to adjust. But, we'll get there.

We have Firmin (me), I design the UI and the environments for the game. Mostly, although I will also help out with the design of the characters assets and the puzzles.

Lastly, we have Remi. He breaths life into worlds. He makes characters. He makes puzzles. He helps with environments. And, he's pretty good at it. 

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Day 1: Laying the Objective-C foundation.

Hello World!

Throughout this week I will be investing a vast amount of my time in becoming familiar with Objective-C. The closest to programming I got was Java at University and, as I have never been close to any C/C++ I will be using mainly the MobileTuts+ website to aide my learning. I will be learning about the basics, variables, conditionals, loops and pointers. I will also try and create a simple yet functional applications to run in X-Code.

Update: Have to wait 6 hours for the iPhone SDK and a newer version of X-Code to download. So it's just going to be reading for today and then focus on coding examples tomorrow.