Beginning iOS 5 Games Development: Using the iOS 5 SDK for iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch

Table of contents

1. Title
2. Dedication
3. Contents at a Glance
4. Contents
5. About the Author
6. About the Technical Reviewer
7. Acknowledgments
8. Introduction
   1. Chapter-by-Chapter Overview
9. Chapter 1: A Simple First Game
   1. Creating a Project in Xcode: Sample 1
   2. Customizing Your Project
   3. Summary
10. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Game Project
    1. Creating Your Game Project
    2. Customizing a Universal Application
    3. Understanding UIViewControllers
    4. Graphically Designing Your UI in a Universal Way
    5. Summary
11. Chapter 3: Explore the Game Application Life Cycle
    1. Understanding the Views in a Game
    2. Understanding the Project's Structure
    3. Preserving Game State
    4. Summary
12. Chapter 4: Quickly Build an Input-Driven Game
    1. Exploring How to Get Content on the Screen
    2. Understanding Animations
    3. Building the Game Coin Sorter
    4. Animating Views with Core Animation
    5. Summary
13. Chapter 5: Quickly Build a Frame-by-Frame Game
    1. Setting Up Your First Frame-by-Frame Animation
    2. Simple Movement
    3. Understanding CADisplayLink and NSRunLoop
    4. Abstracting the UI
    5. Actor State and Animations
    6. Summary
14. Chapter 6: Create Your Characters: Game Engine, Image Actors, and Behaviors
    1. Understanding the Game Engine Classes
    2. Working with the Power-Up Actor
    3. Summary
15. Chapter 7: Build Your Game: Vector Actors and Particles
    1. Saucers, Bullets, Shields, and Health Bars
    2. Drawing Actors with Core Graphics via VectorRepresentation
    3. Adding Particle Systems to Your Game
    4. Summary
16. Chapter 8: Building Your Game: Understanding Gestures and Movements
    1. Touch Input: The Basics
    2. Understanding Gesture Recognizers
    3. Swipe Gesture
    4. Interpreting Device Movements
    5. Summary
17. Chapter 9: Game Center and Social Media
    1. Game Center
    2. Twitter Integration
    3. Facebook Integration
    4. Summary
18. Chapter 10: Monetizing via the Apple App Store
    1. In-App Purchases
    2. Overview of Purchase Types
    3. Preparing for In-app Purchases
    4. Class and Code for In-App Purchases
    5. In-App Purchase Implementation
    6. Driving the UI from Existing Purchases
    7. Making the Purchase
    8. Responding to a Successful Purchase
    9. Summary
19. Chapter 11: A Completed View Belt Commander
    1. Belt Commander: Game Recap
    2. Implementing the Game
    3. Summary
20. Appendix A: Designing and Creating Graphics
    1. The Art in Video Games
    2. Creating the Images Files
    3. Tools
    4. Inkscape
    5. Summary
21. Index