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iPhone Game Blueprints

By : Igor Uduslivii
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iPhone Game Blueprints

By: Igor Uduslivii

Overview of this book

Designing and selling games on the iOS platform has become a phenomenon ever since the introduction of the App Store. With mobile gaming taking the World by storm, users are indulging in all different types of games. iPhone Game Blueprints is a hands on guide to both inspire and help developers, graphic designers, and game enthusiasts to create their own games for iOS devices. Taking a selection of iPhone game "styles" we will learn how to set the foundation and essential functionality for each game. Including thorough explanations of popular games such as puzzles, arcades, and adventures, as well as useful theoretical and technical concepts. iPhone Game Blueprints is your complete guide to creating great iPhone games, from a simple gesture game to a classic shoot 'em up. iPhone Game Blueprints guides you through the universe of mobile games, starting with the overall information about game ideas, ergonomic aspects, and much more. Then it switches to a description of each particular game type, presenting ready-to-use ideas and applications. This book will take you through a selection of iPhone game styles and show how to create the foundation and essential functionality for a game of that genre.The examples in this book are only the beginning. Including a deluge of practical tips, focusing on the best approach to game design, not forgetting to mention the pitfalls. iPhone Game Blueprints will give you the blueprints of several mobile game's essentials cores. Whether you're just getting started with gaming, or want to try a whole different genre of game, these blueprints are everything you need.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
iPhone Game Blueprints
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Color blindness


According to Psychophysics of Vision by Michael Kalloniatis and Charles Luu, about 8 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women have some form of color blindness. This is a significant number of people (most of them are males because of gene mechanics), many of them can become your customers. You should take care of this category of players, which is much easier than you can assume. The following figure shows the players with different types of vision:

I think it is more correct to use the term color vision deficiency instead of color blindness, because people with different forms of color vision deficiencies basically do see colors, they have no black and white vision, based on shades of grey (except for a very rare disorder called achromatopsia). But they have difficulties with some of the colors and relative shades; for them there is a shift in the spectrum for specific colors. Color receptors give a response closer in hues to other colors, which creates trouble in perceiving...