Make Mac Games

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 [...]

I made tremendous progress today.
My bull frog now has full motion control. He can rotate a full 360 degrees and jump forward. He has a nice long frog tongue that can catch all the bugs that are flying around in his frog pond.

Features Remaining:

floating lily pads
rounds or levels
round clock (30 or 60 seconds)
score [...]

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 [...]

After some brainstorming and encouragement from Gianfranco Berardi, I’ve decided to make a go at putting together a game for the Original Mac Games (OMG) Contest.
While dreaming up an idea, I decided that I would start from the prototype I already have. It wasn’t far enough along to really be specific to any one [...]

If you haven’t heard by now, you may want to look into the OMG Contest over at iDevGames.com.

Contest Overview
The OMG (Original Mac Games) Cup is a new game programming contest established by iDevGames, in connection with Freeverse Software, to encourage unique Mac game development. iDevGames is proud to partner with the Mac platform’s leading game [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been hunting down articles covering game engine design that last few days. Primarily, to find out what tools and approaches these game developers have used successfully.
Eventually, I found this article on the development and design of the game engine behind the Mac game Deimios Rising. There are some really great ideas and [...]