Make Mac Games

This weekend I worked on Section 1 of my Game Plan. While seemingly not a huge step in the process, it is step one. I certainly can’t reach the last step without taking the first one.
Taking a look back, this is what my game plan had for the first step:

Setup Development [...]

Originally, I had the intentions of building my first game engine using objective-c and cocoa since I’m going to be targeting the Mac. I investigated several resources on objective-c programming and was pretty happy with what I was finding. There are two main catches to this decision.

I don’t yet know [...]

DarwinPorts provides an easy and very powerful toolset for installing cross-platform UNIX software through an easy to use interface via the terminal (command line).
Where to get it: http://darwinports.org/getdp/
Installation:

Uncompress the installation package using Stuffit Expander
Double-Click on the DarwinPorts.mpkg icon inside the DarwinPorts disk image.
Open the Terminal.app
You’ll need to add the following to your $PATH [...]