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- 24/06/2009: Orbz Completed.... Blog Move!!
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Archive for February 2009
Some new deadlines, gulp !!
11/02/2009 by Taz.
Well I’ve been doing quite a lot of coding lately in my spare time. This means that my first iPhone game is coming on very nicely indeed. The whole process has been helped greatly by the purchase of a book called Beginning iPhone Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK (Amazon UK Link) by Dave Mark and Jeff LaMarche.
These two guys are seasoned Mac Developers and the style of the book shows this, it’s very clear and easy to follow, I would strongly recommend it to anyone looking at developing any iPhone application. You can also find the forums for the book here http://iphonedevbook.com/forum/, which contains some very useful information and also links to Dave and Jeff’s blogs and twitter details.
To this end, I only have one more game mode to code up, the most difficult one ;0), then it’s down to adding polish and testing. Thankfully most of the testing for this game can be done from the iPhone Simulator, but I will also be purchasing an iPhone in the next month to allow me to perform full testing. I can then test on the phone with the full functionality to help iron out as many bugs as possible before I release it to Apple for approval.
My experiences so far have been quite pleasing, Objective-C seems very well thought out once you’ve got your head around the language stylings. I’m sure I still have a lot of things to learn about XCode and it’s underlying tools, plus all the Mac OS X frameworks available., but I’m taking 1 step at a time and only looking up new things when I need them.
My main goal for now is to complete the game by the end of March and release it to Apple for approval. I’ve currently got no Idea how long that will take but I’m hoping it’ll be on the Apple Store by the end of April.
It’s then a matter of watching to see how well it sales!!
For now I’m just enjoying the ride and this time fully intend to complete my first ‘Commercial’ game, and thus realise one of my dreams, to be a Games Developer…….. :o) Catch you all sonn,
Taz
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