Xin is an iPhone developer. His wife Olivia and he are enjoying inspirations in their OLIVIDA Studio.
- Adium
- Anime
- Apple
- App Store
- Beginning
- Beta
- cocos2d
- Code
- Code Geass
- Cydia
- Design
- Example
- FAQ
- Games
- Gomoku
- Hangzhou
- Interface Builder
- iPhone
- iPhone Developer Program
- Jabber
- Java
- Live
- MacBook Pro
- Nonsense
- NSString
- nVIDIA
- Performance
- Smack
- SQLite
- Themes
- Thinking
- Trip
- Tutorial
- UIActionSheet
- UIImageView
- UITableView
- UITableViewCell
- UIView
- UIViewController
- V2EX
- Video
- WordPress
- Xcode
- XMPP
Got my copy of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves at the moment, been playing it for days. This is a must have for all PlayStation 3 owners, I have never seen such a sharp and rich graphic on PS3, much better than my favorite game Resident Evil 5. If you got 10000 points in the game, you can unlock a bonus movie titled Mastering the Cell Processor to tell you how they achieve such a great graphic, finally they use a lot SPU to do various stuff!
These days I’m working on a better implementation of AI for my game Gomoku, and found that when performing pure math & logic calculations, iPhone simulator is vastly faster than real device, maybe 10x times! I implemented a new way to calculate next move for computer in the board name, it took few seconds to calculate inside simulator, but more than 30 seconds on real device. Interesting. I need to put more work on my algorithm, definitely!
If you’re going to create your own iPhone games, with help from a good game engine, your life will be much easier, and you’ll be able to focus on executing your ideas, not the low-level details involving too much math and OpenGL.
cocos2d for iPhone
This is an open source 2D game engine imported from its original Python implementation. The API is organized in several easy-to-understand OOP concepts: Director, Scene, Layer and Sprite. It also sports two powerful 2D physics engine: Chipmunk and Box2d. The full feature list can be found here:
http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/wiki/doku.php/prog_guide:index
OGRE
OGRE is a famous open source 3D game engine, now it being ported to iPhone.
Unity iPhone
Unity is a commercial iPhone game development environment, it has got everything you’ll need for developing a 3D game. The only problem is the licensing price is too high, the combination of Unity Pro and iPhone Advanced could cost you $1499 + $1499. It’s quite a lot.
Unity feature list can be found here:
http://unity3d.com/unity/whats-new/iphone-1.5
Oolong Engine
Oolong Engine is a new open source 3D game engine, it has built-in support for Bullet Physics SDK, which is also open sourced and being supported by AMD recently.