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So you have a great idea for an iPhone or iPad game, but you've never programmed before. Where to start? Here! With GameSalad, you can design, build, and publish a 2D game in the App Store using an easy-to-use, no-programming-required game creation tool. Learn GameSalad for iOS shows you how to set up your development environment and how to create a variety of simple 2D games from a breakout-style game to an arcade shooter to a maze game. You'll also learn how to use GameSalad to create a non-game app as well. This book also takes you beyond game development into getting your game into the App Store, using iAd, and marketing your game.
- A clear, step-by-step approach to GameSalad for the complete beginner
- Create fun, complete, and fully functional game projects
- An idea to App Store publishing guide
Sommario
- Preparing Your Design Environment
- Your First Game from Scratch: The Pong Game
- Finishing Pong: Scoring and Game Interaction
- Break a Wall: Implementing Comments, Accelerometer Movements, LifeManagement, and Pause
- Making a Shoot 'Em Up Game: Carrot Invader
- Learning Gravity, Basic Physics and Camera Controls: An Angry Birds-like Game, Part I
- Creating a Game Menu and a Particles Effect: An Angry Birds-like Game, Part II
- Graphics and Sound Effects: Labyrinth
- Bonuses, Game Center, and iAd: Break a Wall
- Device Internal Clock and Cyclic Movement: Non-Game Apps
- Submitting Your Game to the App Store
- Introduction to Game Promotion
Riassunto
So you have a great idea for an iPhone or iPad game, but you've never programmed before. Where to start? Here! With GameSalad, you can design, build, and publish a 2D game in the App Store using an easy-to-use, no-programming-required game creation tool.
Learn GameSalad for iOS shows you how to set up your development environment and how to create a variety of simple 2D games from a breakout-style game to an arcade shooter to a maze game. You'll also learn how to use GameSalad to create a non-game app as well. This book also takes you beyond game development into getting your game into the App Store, using iAd, and marketing your game.
A clear, step-by-step approach to GameSalad for the complete beginner
Create fun, complete, and fully functional game projects
An idea to App Store publishing guide
