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HowTo start writing games for Mac Os X using ObjC

Started by hr_rabe Feb 25, 2012 at 11:29 PM 6 replies 7.7k views

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Feb 25, 2012 at 11:29 PM

Hello Everyone,

I am an experienced developer in "the serious business", and am currently trying my hand at game development.

Since I am starting my journey on a Macintosh, I also started to write for that platform and with the tools available here. This means Objective C, Cocoa and OpenGL/OpenAL.

I haven't found any good tutorials on that topic yet, and so I started to document my work in a step by step diary/tutorial as I am learning the ropes.

Maybe that stuff is also of interest to someone here. To entries about basic OpenGL wiring and OpenAL processing are already done. More will follow as I am progressing. I am currently writing the third entry about Gamepad control via the HIDManager.

Sorry, if that is the wrong place for it (it forums are quite big) or if posts like this are not welcome at all, in which case I can delete it (hopefully). But I thought, that maybe of use to someone here:

Part 1: http://dragonsandbyt...pengl-and-coco/
Part 2: https://dragonsandby...ound-of-openal/

Regards,

Mr. Raven

hr_rabe

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hr_rabe

Feb 26, 2012 at 10:22 PM

Part 3 is available now: https://dragonsandbytecode.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/game-developers-diary-3-getting-in-control/

kuramayoko10

Feb 27, 2012 at 7:46 PM

Nice iniciative!

I am still searching for Updated tutorials on OpenGL ES 2 as it is an option for iOS programming.
I found some articles in blogs but many features aren't handled anymore on the current version of OpenGL ES.

Just saying... if anyone have a link on that, post it here ;)

hr_rabe

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hr_rabe

Feb 27, 2012 at 11:21 PM

Sorry, I think, it will be a wile still, until I come around to do iOs stuff in this series, takes a bit of time, to get a firm grip on OsX first.

Thanks for the thumps up, though.

hr_rabe

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hr_rabe

Apr 11, 2012 at 10:44 PM

Part 4 is available now: http://dragonsandbytecode.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/game-dev-diary-4-extending-the-control/

I expand on the controller aspect and give one possible solution, to go about keyboard and mouse controls, using Cocoa.

Took me a while to write this. Explaining something in written form is so hard... :/

Have fun with this.

Neilo

Apr 12, 2012 at 2:54 PM

Pretty good introductory articles, although you should probably give your MyGamePadController class a dealloc method that removes your HID Manager from the runloop and then call CFRelease on it. Core Foundation stuff isn't covered by ARC.

hr_rabe

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hr_rabe

Apr 13, 2012 at 10:45 AM

Pretty good introductory articles, although you should probably give your MyGamePadController class a dealloc method that removes your HID Manager from the runloop and then call CFRelease on it. Core Foundation stuff isn't covered by ARC.

Noted.

Thanks for spotting it. This has now been rectified.

hr_rabe

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hr_rabe

Jun 7, 2012 at 5:16 PM

hi again.

After some downtime. Here is the fifth part: https://dragonsandbytecode.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/game-dev-diary-5-about-textures-and-2d/

This time, I cover using the 2D Projection as well as a basic introduction into Textures

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