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Synopsis: How to make money selling iOS source code (sans various assets files) and related environment files to other iOS game developers. Interesting idea.
by Hoff 14y ago
Synopsis: How to make money selling iOS source code (sans various assets files) and related environment files to other iOS game developers.
Interesting idea. It would be interesting to hear whether this succeeds; if there's enough interest to make a go of this.
Without having looked at the source code (it could be clean code or it could be spaghetti), this kit looks to be a reasonable resource or companion for learning more about iOS game programming than is in some of the available books.
Another and different approach some folks are taking for creating games involves a package such as Unity; using a more generic game-creation engine, rather than home-grown or purchased code.
And if you're "simply" looking for examples of games and game programming, there are also a variety of free FPS packages, some of which work on Linux and OS X. Here's one list, and yes, there are other non-FPS games around, too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_First_Person_Shooters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_First_Person_Shooters