EA Special: Competition

Win a $10 iTunes Gift Card*Need for Speed Undercover reviews will be acceptediFoneReviews in Association with Electronic Arts are giving you a chance to win a $10 iTunes Gift Card in celebration of the latest game released, Tiger Woods PGA Tour.As you have seen two Electronic Arts games have already been reviewed and during the competition we will have four or more reviews of Electronic Arts games out.How To Participate-1. To Participate in the game I thought I would see how good our viewers are at reviewing games.To enter you must review one of Electronic Arts iPhone games that are on the below listTetrisSudokuMonopolyScrabbleTrivial PursuitSimCitySpore...

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EA Special: SimCity

This is the second of two reviews leading up to something really cool from myself in association with Electronic Arts Mobile. Stay Tuned in the next few hours to find out what it is.iTunes LinkSimCity is a building game by Electronic Arts. $5.99Like Electronic Arts other games on the App Store, SimCity is a game based on a previously made game. SimCity is a kind of time management game that has had massive success in particular on the PC. Many people would have heard about the game and possibly even played or own it. Unlike games such as Scrabble and Monopoly, I have never played SimCity so I was interested how easy the iPhone version would be...

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EA Special: Scrabble

This is the first of two reviews leading up to something really cool from myself in association with Electronic Arts Mobile. Stay Tuned in the next few hours to find out what it is.iTunes Link Scrabble is a word game by Electronic Arts. $4.99Everyone knows and the world famous board game Scrabble. Most people would have played the game and probably own it. Board games are slowly going out of fashion with Electronic Arts releasing many games such as Monopoly, Yahtzee and this onto the App Store. What really brought Scrabble into the attention of everyone with an iDevice is its revolutionary Facebook connect system. This system soar Scrabble skyrocket...

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WWDC Has Sold Out

According to Matt Drance, Frameworks Evangelist at Apple, Elvis has left the building, and he took the last WWDC ticket with him. Hope you got your tickets, it gonna be swe...

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Detecting a Circle Gesture

In Beginning iPhone Development, we have a chapter on gestures. While I think we covered the topic fairly well, I would have liked to have included a few more custom gestures in that chapter. By that point in writing, however, we were already way over on page count. Back then, we also just didn't have a good idea of what other gestures would become common.I did experiment some with detecting circles back then, but didn't include the code in the book for two reasons. One reason is because the method is really quite long and would have taken a lot of explanation, which we didn't really have spare pages for. The second reasons is that I have a feeling...

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Preview: Baseball Sluggers- Home Run Race 3D

Baseball Sluggers is the upcoming game by Com2Us in Early May. We have some of the first available screenshots and a gameplay video to show as well as some great information.Key Brand Powers• Online matchup mode (Multi-player)• Cool slamming 3D camera and sound effects• Identified look for each players in the matchup world: character customization• iPhone/ iPod Touch optimized control: tilt and touch (touch-motion control)• Partnership with one of the official bat of MLB, for real baseball equipments• Item balls enable players to attack and defend their games in the matchup modeFeatures1. Four different play modes: Matchup, Arcade, Training,...

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Project Template Bugfix

If you've downloaded my OpenGL Xcode Project Template and are using it, you should re-download it. There's a potential crasher in there that's been fix...

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Car Jack Streets

iTunes LinkCar Jack Streets is a top down shooter by Tag Games. $4.99The wait is finally over. Car Jack Streets is the long awaited Grand Theft Auto game to hit the App Store. Car Jack Streets is similar to the game by Apex Designs called Payback, but some different features brings this game out on top. Car Jack Streets follows the story of Randal Meyers, who owes $1,000,000 to casino owner Frankie. He has given you a chance to repay your debt by giving him $50,000 every week until it is paid off. If by the weeks end the cash isn't paid, Frankie's men will come after you and will end up killing you for good. Any of the whiz bang mathematicians...

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OpenGL ES From the Ground Up, Part 3: Viewports in Perspective

Now that you got a taste of how to draw in OpenGL, let's take a step back and talk about something very important: the OpenGL viewport. Many people who are new to 3D programming, but who have worked with 3D graphics programs like Maya, Blender, or Lightwave, expect to find an object in OpenGL's virtual world called a "camera". There is no such beast. What there is, is a defined chunk of 3D space that can be seen. The virtual world is infinite, but computers don't deal well with infinite, so OpenGL asks us to define a chunk of space that can be seen by the viewer. If we think of it in terms of the camera object that most 3D programs have, the...

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Silent Hill- The Escape

iTunes LinkSilent Hill: The Escape is a horror game by Konami. $7.99iPhone_Reviews re-reviews Silent Hill: The Escape by Konami, as his opinions of the game do not match those of Arron's. This review as well as the original review by Arron on Razorianfly are located [HERE] The review will be shorter as a lot of the stuff is covered in the original review.We thought It'd be great to give you a second opinion. Unlike Arron, I have never played the original Silent Hill games on the console version, mainly because of what I heard about them from friends.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Not playing...

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Learn Cocoa Update

I just wanted to post a quick update about Learn Cocoa. Dave and I have gotten ourselves spread pretty thin. We have a number of projects in the pipeline for Apress, most of which we can't announce the details of yet. Unfortunately, as a result, Learn Cocoa's publication date kept getting pushed further and further back. To remedy that, and to make sure we get a quality book to market in a reasonable timeframe, Dave and I have brought in a new principal author for Learn Cocoa. Jack Nutting has taken over the reins of the book, but Dave and I will still be involved with it. Jack's got a lot of Objective-C and Cocoa experience and Dave and I are both confident that it's going to be a great book.In related news, we should be able to take the wraps off of our other projects by WWDC at the lat...

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Using Instruments to check iPhone Texture Memory Usage

A great blog post for anyone doing OpenGL work on the iPhone.via Noel of Snappy Touch, via Owen Goss of Streaming Colour, via Luke Lutman of zinc ...

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Something to Make Apple Fan-Boys Turn Rhodamine (Pink)

An interesting discussion of someone's first experiences with Microsoft's Surface. I'm honestly a little saddened by this. I think nothing in the world could be better than good competition for Apple's touch-screen products, even if it's not a directly competing product, but if this account is anything to go buy, the Surface doesn't appear to be nipping at Apple's heels in any meaningful way. Oh, the product itself is okay, but the lack of attention to detail... well, it matters! Great technology isn't enough. If you miss the opportunity to wow with the first impression, you've got to fight very hard to get back in the user's good graces.But, I must admit, there's a very small part of me - the Apple fan-boy part - that secretly smirks with satisfaction that Microsoft is yet again snatching...

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Another Fine Quarter

Yesterday, Apple announced another great quarter even in a tough economy. Although unit sales of Macs were down slightly, sales of both iPods and iPhone OS devices were up, and Apple called it "the best non-holiday quarter in Apple history". One of the interesting tidbits of information that can be gleaned from the earnings report is the fact that there have now been 37 million iPhones and iPod Touches sold. Although there are probably some of those that aren't in service, the vast majority probably are still being used in some capacity.So, yeah, the gold rush might be over (though I'm not entirely convinced about it), but it's still a hell of a market. To put that number in perspective, back in 2007, it was estimated that the installed base of Mac OS X computers was 22 million. Obviously...

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Baseball Superstars

iTunes LinkThis is a modified post from TheAppEraBaseball Superstars is the first baseball game on the iDevice that has caught my attention. Apart from the SGN free game, iBaseball, there was really nothing any good in the baseball sector until Baseball Superstars 2009 came out. There is now 9 Innings: Pro Baseball and MLB Word Series 2009 out. This game doesn’t give the real MLB feel but is a very good cartoon version of the game. With Flick Baseball coming for probably $0.99, I am sure you are wondering why you shouldn’t just wait for that? Well basically this game has weeks on end of playing to get through it all. Add the fact that it has...

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Preview: Star Defense

A majority of us would have heard about the latest game by the amazing iPhone developers NgMoco:). Here is a little preview on their upcoming game, Star DefenseStar DefenseRELEASE DATE: May 2009PUBLISHER: ngmoco:)GENRE: Action & StrategyDEVICES: iPhone™ & iPod® touchPRODUCT OVERVIEW:The Universe is in Your Hands – Created exclusively for the iPhone & iPod Touch.Beautiful, dynamic 3D environments provide the backdrop to incredible action in Star Defense, ngmoco’s innovative strategy title coming this May to the iPhone and iPod touch.Use multitouch to spin and zoom entire worlds, examining the terrain to determine optimal locations...

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