Beginning iOS Game Development -- About The Author -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: The Tools to Get Started -- Chapter 1: Games on Ios -- What Makes a Good iOS Game? -- Device Usage -- Use Unique Features of iOS -- Make Your Game Fun -- Graphics and Design -- Developing Your Idea -- Documenting Your Game -- Prototyping Your Game -- Preparing to Code -- Game-Related Frameworks -- Cocoa -- Drawing: UIKit and Core Graphics -- User Interaction: Cocoa Touch -- Animation: Core Animation -- Sound: Core Audio -- Game Kit -- Summary -- Chapter 2: The Xcode Programming Environment -- The Coding Environment -- Creating a Project -- Navigating Your Project -- The Navigator Area -- Navigating by Symbol -- Searching Your Code -- Viewing Code Issues -- Examining Logs -- Editing Your Code -- Code Coloring -- Indentation and Snippets -- Fix-it -- Integrated Help -- Using the Jump Bars -- The Assistant Editor -- Xcode Debugging Tools -- Breaking and Stepping through Your Code -- Additional Breakpoint Features -- Building a Simple Interface -- Summary -- Chapter 3: The C Programming Language -- Introducing C -- Variables and Expressions -- Data Types -- Variables -- Base Data Types -- Generating Output and Accepting Input -- Extending the Data Types -- Operators -- Assignment Operators -- Arithmetic Operators -- Relational Operators -- Logical Operators -- Scope -- Structures -- Arrays -- Loops -- for Loops -- while and do…while Loops -- break and continue -- Execution Flow and Decisions -- The if Statement -- The Conditional Operator -- Choosing an Option with switch -- Breaking Up Code with Functions -- Pointers -- A Game Example -- Summary -- Chapter 4: The Objective-C Programming Language -- Classes and Objects -- Instance Variables -- Methods and Messages -- Managing Memory -- Automatic Reference Counting -- Inheritance.

Building Subclasses from a Base Class -- Overriding Base Class Methods -- Polymorphism -- Building a Game in Objective-C -- Exposing Class Data with Properties -- Declaring a Property -- Accessing a Property -- Class Methods -- Implementing the MindPlayer -- Building the Game Loop -- Summary -- Chapter 5: The Cocoa Foundation Framework -- Model-View-Controller Architecture -- Your First iOS Game -- Building the UI -- Outlets and Actions -- Handling Text with NSString -- NSString Methods -- Mutable and Immutable Types -- String Comparison -- Collecting Objects with NSArray -- NSArray Methods -- Modifying Arrays by Using NSMutableArray -- Wrapping Numbers with NSNumber -- Other Collection Classes -- NSSet -- NSDictionary -- Building the Game Model -- Periodic Events and Timers -- Summary -- Part II: Game Building Blocks -- Chapter 6: Drawing With Uikit and Core Graphics -- Introducing the Drawing Frameworks -- UIKit -- Core Graphics -- The Drawing Environment -- The Graphics Context -- The UIView Coordinate System -- The drawRect: Method -- Drawing Shapes with UIBezierPath -- Specifying Colors with UIColor -- Advanced Drawing with Core Graphics -- Shadows -- Gradients -- Starting the Blocker Game with the BlockView -- Working with Images -- The Image Classes -- The View Hierarchy -- Animation and Timing with CADisplayLink -- Finishing the Blocker Game -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Responding to User Interaction -- Events in iOS -- The Event Architecture -- Event Objects -- Handling Multitouch Events -- Building a Simple Touch-Based Game: Simon Says -- Responding to Motion with the Accelerometer -- Recognizing Gestures -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Animating your Graphics -- Animating Images with UIImageView -- Introducing Core Animation -- A Brief Introduction to Blocks -- Animating UIView Properties and Transitions -- Property Animations.

Transition Animations -- Core Animation Basics -- Layer Layout -- Animatable Properties -- Layer Trees -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Making Noise With Ios Audio Apis -- Playing Simple Sounds with the System Sound Services -- Playing Sounds with the AV Foundation Framework -- The AVAudioPlayer Class -- Format and Performance Considerations -- Configuring the Audio Session -- Playing Multiple Sounds Simultaneously -- Looping Sounds -- Media Player Framework -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Building A Networked Game With Gamekit -- Introducing GameKit -- Starting Out -- Networking Your Game -- NSData and NSCoding -- Converting Classes to Data with Archives -- Connecting and Sending Data -- Running the Game -- Summary -- Appendix: Answers to Exercises -- Index -- Advertisements.