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Marmalade SDK Mobile Game Development Essentials

By : Sean Scaplehorn
Book Image

Marmalade SDK Mobile Game Development Essentials

By: Sean Scaplehorn

Overview of this book

Modern mobile devices are capable of supporting video games of amazing quality but there are so many different devices and platforms how can you support them all? The answer is to use the Marmalade SDK to write your code once and deploy it to all popular mobile platforms at the touch of a button.Marmalade SDK Mobile Game Development Essentials will provide you with everything you need to know to transfer your existing C++ videogame programming knowledge to mobile devices. From graphics and sound to input methods and actual deployment to device, this book covers the lot.Learn how to make use of keys, touch screen and accelerometer inputs for controlling your game.Take the pain out of supporting a varied range of target devices, both across multiple platforms and multiple specifications.Step by step from "Hello World" to a complete game, this book will show how to use the Marmalade SDK to develop games for mobile devices.Learn how to make dazzling 2D and 3D games complete with fully animated characters, music and sound effects that can be deployed to all the leading mobile platforms, whilst ensuring it can run on a wide range of possible devices, from low specification to high end.If you want to join the exciting world of mobile videogames then Learning Mobile Game Development with Marmalade will show you how to do so, fast!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Marmalade SDK Mobile Game Development Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Connecting to other types of online services


We'll now take a quick look at some of the other types of online services that games on mobile devices typically connect to. While we won't be covering these in depth, it's still worth giving them a mention in order to form a better picture of what is possible.

Supporting social gaming networks

Social gaming networks such as Apple's Game Center or cross-platform solutions such as Scoreloop or OpenFeint have become commonplace in many mobile games. In the following sections we will look at some of the possibilities we have available in Marmalade projects for these types of services.

Using Apple's Game Center

One of the most well-known social gaming systems in the mobile games world has to be Apple's Game Center (http://www.apple.com/game-center/). Unsurprisingly, this system is solely devoted to iOS-based devices, so if you are developing a game for iOS this is probably going to be your first choice for support.

We cannot access Apple's API directly...