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Chapter 1: Building Great iOS Games
People play their iPhone games in potentially loud, bright, and distracting
environments while they wait for something else to happen or while they talk
to people. They play them for a minute or two before switching to something
else, and they expect their iPhone to know what they were up to when they
finally come back to the game.
Establishing a Game Developer Mindset
Why develop iPhone and iPad games? Because you can. Because it’s time.
And most of all, because it’s fun! Developing a game that can potentially
reach an audience in the millions is a hugely rewarding experience no matter
how you look at it. Here’s what makes developing games so much fun:
✓ iOS games are usually small and conceptually simple to understand.
As with iPhone apps, a single developer, or maybe one with a partner
and some graphics support, can do them. You don’t need an enormous
team with hordes of people, managers, and paperwork to create some-
thing rich and compelling. You have the power to create something that
can reach millions, and you can do it from your own home.
✓ Games on the iPhone and iPad are focused and clean. The games get
straight to the point of what makes them fun and help the users to dive
in and out with ease. They’re simple but not simplistic. This makes the
design and implementation much easier and faster.
✓ The popularity of the iOS platforms (that is, the iPhone and the iPad)
makes getting your work into the hands of users easier than ever.
Getting your game onto a mobile device used to mean negotiating a
deal with a publisher; these days, it’s as simple as signing up online
with Apple.
Before we talk about how to design your games, it’s worth pointing out the
single most valuable piece of advice one iOS game developer can give another:
Play other people’s games!
The more you play iOS games, the better you understand them. The better
you understand them, the better your own games become. When you play,
if you try to determine how the game actually works, you often strike inspi-
ration. Many games appear simple on the surface, but if you delve deeper
beneath the interface by paying closer attention to how you interact with the
game and what the game presents to you in return, you reveal much hidden
complexity in the way the game is constructed.
Discovering how others have built their games while you play them is the
best way (other than reading this book) to develop your game building skills
and gain a better understanding of what makes a great game tick.
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