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Sparrow iOS Game Framework Beginner's Guide

By : Stein
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Sparrow iOS Game Framework Beginner's Guide

By: Stein

Overview of this book

An easy-to-follow guide full of descriptive step-by-step procedures on how to develop a game for iOS. With each topic, a new challenge will be tackled to get a deeper knowledge of the Sparrow game framework and gain the skills to develop a complete mobile experience. This book is aimed at those who have always wanted to create their own games for iOS devices. Perhaps you've already dabbled in game development and want to know how to develop games for the Apple App Store, or maybe you have developed Objective-C apps in the past but you are new to game development. In either case, this book will help with descriptive examples and teach you to develop a game throughout its course. Some experience in Objective-C and a basic understanding of object-oriented programming are required.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
13
Afterword
14
Index

Downloading Sparrow

Now that Xcode is installed and ready to go, the next step is to get the latest stable version of Sparrow. Go to the official Sparrow homepage at http://sparrow-framework.org or http://gamua.com/sparrow/.

The latest Sparrow version—at the time of writing this book—is 2.0.1. The download page will look like the following screenshot:

Downloading Sparrow

Click on the big blue Download button and the download should start.

Cloning the Git repository

If you are familiar with the version control system Git, you can also get the latest version by cloning the Git repository. This section is meant for advanced users who have already worked with Git.

The Sparrow GitHub repository is located at https://github.com/Gamua/Sparrow-Framework/, where more information on the procedure can be found. Typically, Git commands are entered in the terminal:

git clone https://github.com/Gamua/Sparrow-Framework

This will take a while to download; the current progress is being shown in the terminal. After the download is complete, you will have the latest development version. Only use this version if you want to test a specific feature of Sparrow before its release or if you are feeling adventurous.

Never use this version for production code in games about to be released on Apple's App Store.

To get the latest stable version of Sparrow, check out the stable tag:

git checkout tags/v2.0.1

Now we can update to the latest version if we want to.