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>It's not fun. There are some parts that are fun. Well, even a grueling task can be fun with the right perspective. But point taken. :) >+10. The fact you hav

>It's not fun. There are some parts that are fun. Well, even a grueling task can be fun with the right perspective. But point taken. :) >+10. The fact you have the artwork is huge. Even better if you did it yourself. Programmers are commodities. Programmers who can do some design are not. Yes, I did the layout and design, some of the artwork too. The rest of the art I commissioned, and have the rights to use. >You have to choose whether to drop everything else and put them on the backburner. That's the toughest part right now. I can get pretty focused (the game is 400+ pages and took nearly 2 years), but I have another front-burner project at the moment that is going to remain so for some time. >From personal experience and that of others, I conservatively estimate it will take about 150-200 hours of hands-on work before Objective C/Cocoa stops being the problem and starts becoming the solution. That is about 2 months. That's 6 months in real-time then? :P Thanks. That helps.

stiggz 16y ago
lol, don't forget that whatever time you put in will pay dividends. You'll be a real programmer! And although this project won't be making you money, you'll have the expertise to turn on a faucet for apps in the future. I'd say, do it yourself- don't listen to the people who say you can't learn to program in six months. Just build your program as you go, grab books that give a thorough step-by-step process to building apps, read other people's source code, and make friends with some successful iphone app developers. A web-app would be nice, php would probably be the easiest way (TONS of example, and php.net is a definitive resoure), so you may want to prototype in php, but don't stop trying to learn Objective-C, you'll still be one of the first on HN to 'get it', and 'use it' to build their own ideas out.

stiggz 16y ago

lol, don't forget that whatever time you put in will pay dividends. You'll be a real programmer! And although this project won't be making you money, you'll have the expertise to turn on a faucet for apps in the future. I'd say, do it yourself- don't listen to the people who say you can't learn to program in six months. Just build your program as you go, grab books that give a thorough step-by-step process to building apps, read other people's source code, and make friends with some successful iphone app developers. A web-app would be nice, php would probably be the easiest way (TONS of example, and php.net is a definitive resoure), so you may want to prototype in php, but don't stop trying to learn Objective-C, you'll still be one of the first on HN to 'get it', and 'use it' to build their own ideas out.