Make Mac Games

Yesterday, I discovered a serious flaw in the design of Bullfrog.
I’ve been developing this game on a PowerMac Dual 2GHz G5 with 1 GB RAM. The game was designed to run at approximately 60 frames per second. The animation was smooth and all the game objects moved at their correct speeds.
Last night, I [...]

Just about every game will need collision detection of some form. If you are using Cocoa and Objective-C for your game programming, then you’re in luck. There are a bunch of easy to use methods that can save you some serious time.
For Bullfrog, I’ve started with an all developer graphics based approach. All [...]

Ah, the joys of trigonometry. It’s been a long long time since I needed to know how to find points on a circle and how to determine the length of the the adjacent side of a triangle or remembering what a hypotenuse is.
One of the initial steps of getting my new game, Bullfrog, developed [...]

A funny thing has happened to me since I started writing about my pursuit of Mac game development. New needs, ideas, and opportunities have arisen. Some directly related to blogging, some related to running a MicroISV, and yet others related to my normal everyday technology-centric life.
This last item leads me to my first [...]

I have a prototype started for a simple game using Objective-C and Cocoa. It’s been slow going, but I feel like I’m finally getting somewhere. I worked on it on and off while flying around the country the past couple of weeks on vacation (which helps explain the recent lack of updates to this [...]

Do you have $10 and the desire to quickly get up to speed on game programming and Apple’s Cocoa framework? I did.
I recently finished a book on Objective-C and Cocoa programming that gave me a pretty good introduction and base for developing applications on the Mac. Though the book was helpful, I still [...]

As I stated in yesterday’s article, Learning Cocoa, I’m struggling with the syntax of Objective-C. It’s not that I don’t understand it, it’s just completely different looking than C-derived syntax like Java, C++, C#, and php (the languages I use in “real-life”).
To add to the problem, I’m struggling with style. What I mean [...]

I’ve been spending a considerable amount of time trying to learn Objective-C and especially Cocoa.

After some searching around, I found tons of references to Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X by Aaron Hillegass. It’s a good tool for learning how to build applications with Apple’s development tools and frameworks, though it is missing some [...]

Are you looking for a way to setup a registration system for your shareware software?
There are several commercial products out there, but Aquatic has released a free (donations accepted) open-source framework: AquaticPrime. It supports both Cocoa and Carbon integration and also includes a php-based library for use on your online e-commerce shopping cart system.
AquaticPrime [...]

The new epsiode interviews Brent Simmons of NetNewsWire fame. For some reason, it hasn’t appeared in iTunes yet, so you need to get it directly from CocoaRadio.