http://makemacgames.com/2005/10/20/omg-contest-ideas/ The Adventure Sat, 05 May 2007 12:50:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://makemacgames.com/2005/10/20/omg-contest-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Make Mac Games » Blog Archive » Bullfrog: A Postmortem Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:38:14 +0000 http://makemacgames.com/?p=84#comment-181 [...] Aside from needing an idea, there were a few hurdles to tackle. Not only was this my first game project in almost fifteen years, it was also to be my first Mac project, written in Objective-C and Cocoa. I was also aware that most games for the platform are written in OpenGL because of the sub-optimal performance of CoreGraphics and Quartz Extreme. Though I have been a professional software developer for twelve years, I felt that learning OpenGL in addition to Cocoa was too much to tackle in such a short time frame. So I had to make do with what Apple’s API would provide. [...] [...] Aside from needing an idea, there were a few hurdles to tackle. Not only was this my first game project in almost fifteen years, it was also to be my first Mac project, written in Objective-C and Cocoa. I was also aware that most games for the platform are written in OpenGL because of the sub-optimal performance of CoreGraphics and Quartz Extreme. Though I have been a professional software developer for twelve years, I felt that learning OpenGL in addition to Cocoa was too much to tackle in such a short time frame. So I had to make do with what Apple’s API would provide. [...]

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