iPhone Game Blueprints -- Table of Contents -- iPhone Game Blueprints -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Starting the Game -- Telling a story -- Characters -- Levels -- Naming -- Working with graphic assets -- Sprites and tiles -- Preparing animation -- Background -- Application icon -- Achievements -- Trophies -- Banners -- Screenshots -- Gameplay videos -- Summary -- 2. Ergonomics -- Portraying the player -- Ergonomic aspects -- Simple rules -- Distance to the game -- The Pause button -- Autosaving -- The Continue button -- Visibility of the control elements -- Direct control -- Introducing functionalities -- Health regeneration -- Peaks and valleys -- One event per moment -- Difficulty level -- Sound and music -- Minimum screen areas -- Using buttons -- UI elements -- Accessible games -- Color blindness -- Photosensitive epilepsy -- Handedness -- Other accessibility issues -- Summary -- 3. Gesture Games -- Introducing the game idea -- Imagining the device orientation -- Introducing game modes -- Gestures -- Intuition -- Lights -- Thinking about the plot and decorations -- Alternative ideas -- Creating a game's identity -- Game blueprints -- Summary -- 4. Card and Board Games -- The ornament of life -- Powerful objects -- Traditional board games -- Planning your digital board game -- The Plot -- Game elements and goals -- Game start -- The game board -- Decks -- Robots -- Doors -- Tools and bonuses -- Monsters -- The game table -- Robo-golem -- Robo-zombie.

Alternative ideas -- Player's identity -- Game blueprints -- Summary -- 5. Puzzles -- Making connections -- Puzzle types -- Word puzzles -- Number (mathematical) puzzles -- Audio puzzles -- Transport puzzles -- Point connection puzzles -- Physics-based puzzles -- Tile-matching puzzles -- Match-three games -- Game board dimensions -- Triggers -- Scoring -- Prototyping your puzzle -- Inserting elements -- Tile shooter -- Scrolling -- Moving columns -- Tile-o-fall -- Obstacles -- Tile-o-maze -- Tile-RPG -- Ornamentation -- Alternative ideas for match-three games -- The identity of the game -- Blueprints -- Summary -- 6. Platformer -- Scaffolding -- Types of platforms -- Game idea -- Plot -- Game controls -- Setting the screen layout -- Planning a character's look -- Making characters cute -- Making characters scary -- Making characters brutal -- Avoiding the uncanny valley -- Creating characters -- Earning bonuses and pitfalls -- Introducing triggers -- Fighting with enemies -- Parallax scrolling -- Starting an animation -- Frames -- Walking cycle for protagonist -- Walking cycle animation for enemies -- Jumping and shooting animation -- Programming animation -- Physics-based puzzles -- The identity of the game -- Blueprints of the 3robopainter game -- Summary -- 7. Adventure -- Beginning of a journey -- Understanding types of adventure games -- Text-based adventure -- Puzzle-based adventure -- Action-based adventure -- Escape the room -- Planning the setting -- Establishing the game idea -- Writing the plot -- Introducing the protagonist -- Planning the room -- Interaction -- Language of adventures -- Thinking about puzzles -- Creating the scene flowchart -- Presenting the inventory -- Monologues -- Dialogues -- Constructing the conversation tree -- Working with phrases -- Creating the dialogue window -- Alternative ideas -- Identity for the game.

Blueprints -- Summary -- 8. Action Games -- Introducing action games -- Classifying the types of shooters -- Fixed shooters -- Scrolling shooter -- Rail shooter -- First-person shooter -- Third-person shooter -- Mixed shooters -- Generating the game idea -- Writing the plot -- Planning game modes -- Developing the protagonist -- Designing enemies -- Preparing obstacles -- Illustrating collisions -- Inserting anomalies -- Giving bonuses -- Introducing health and oxygen -- Introducing energy cells -- Shooting -- Working with onscreen controls -- Turning space orientation into controls -- Designing the head-up display -- Discussing 3D graphics -- Turning low poly graphics into art -- Modeling 3D graphics -- Understanding normal mapping -- Alternative ideas for the game -- Creating the identity for the game -- Blueprints of the game -- Summary -- 9. Games with Reality -- Seeing real unreal -- Learning augmented reality methods -- Understanding fiducial markers -- Working with graphics in AR games -- Meeting AR games -- Using real landmarks -- Planning an AR game -- The concept of an AR game -- Planning game controls -- Controlling real objects -- Gamificating reality -- Summary -- Index.