Apple tools for game developers

Gaming technology has driven Windows to where it is today. In many aspects I see Windows as nothing more than a very robust gaming platform. Microsoft's Direct X 10, though proprietary, is a very formidable tool for developers. Why doesn't Apple do more in courting and aiding gaming developers on their platform? I am seriously perplexed by this. I realize that the game developers that design for the Mac are very dedicated gamers who would love nothing more than make great gaming experiences on the Mac. Most put their hearts and souls into making games happen for the Mac, with little to no support from Apple.
I've done some research into OpenGL implementation on the Mac and I'm surprised at how much Apple is missing in this arena. Especially since so many of their core UI technologies are steeped in OpenGL. Yet Apple tends to be slow in fully adopting and exploiting the newer OpenGL technologies as they emerge. Apple could be a very strong driving influence for OpenGL, but they seem, to me anyway, to have a sort of detached interest in making it happen. For instance, OpenGL 2.0 was ratified on October 22, 2004 and yet Apple has only implemented 70% of the feature-set??? OpenGL 2.1 was ratified on December 1, 2006 and they have only brought 30% of the features to OS X? I look at the drivers for the various cards and compare it against PC drivers and Apple only implements about 75% of what PC drivers have. This has got to be horrendous for game developers.
I see all of this as a critical missed opportunity on Apple's part. I know that Mac game developers have to jump through a lot of hoops to bring PC games to the Mac because they simply do not have the tools that PC developers have. In my opinion this is inexcusable. Apple has a tremendous opportunity to make a singular gaming experience on the Mac. They have a vertical marketspace that has the potential to turn their machines into a gaming juggernaut, yet they have all the appearances of being laxadasical about the whole concept of gaming.
I can only hope that Apple reads this and, more importantly, cares enough to do something about it.

I use photoshop (you can get 6.0 at ebay for ~40-50 bucks - something similar for free would be gimp -> www.gimp.org), povray (www.povray.org), sodipodi (www.sodipodi.com), gmax (www.discreet.com), some selfwritten commandline tools for creating sheets and pngout for compression.
If you need alot of animations it's much easier if you go the 3d route: modeling, texturing, animating. One model = tons of animations. It's also easy to create new animations if you need em. [I'm talking about pre rendered sprites like everyone knows from donkey kong]
Well, you'll need alot of time until you can create decent art. And then you'll need alot of practise, because you are just way too slow.
Here are some examples for whoring and showoff purpose ;)
raytracing (povray)
http://people.freenet.de/ki_onyx/ludo_mockup8.png
http://people.freenet.de/ki_onyx/hq2cpma2r.png
Pretty hard to do. It's all math. You have to write code in the SDL (scene descipting language). Note: the board on image 1 is drawn with Java2d functions - however, the color values were taken from a previous rendering.
pixelated (mspaint, photoshop... whatsoever)
http://people.freenet.de/ki_onyx/evil.gif
http://people.freenet.de/ki_onyx/killbill4.gif
http://people.freenet.de/ki_onyx/favicon2l3.gif
Takes damn long. Even that tiny 16x16 icon took more than half an hour. You'll need lot's of practise for being fast (eg 30mins for image nr2 would be fast).
svg(scalable vector graphics - sodipodi)
http://people.freenet.de/ki_onyx/eye9c.png
Takes also rather long. However it's easier and faster to do than pixel stuff. Also creating sub frames isn't that much work.
photoshopping(uuuuh... photoshop and the like)
http://people.freenet.de/ki_onyx/tr_menu.gif
This one for example was done in some minutes. Noise, motion blur, some text there, rendering filter... done!
Oh and having a scanner is nice. You can use scanned sketches for everything (except povray heh).

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8. How much experience do you have using the following technologies?
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I’ve spent some time working with that technology
I am comfortable using that technology
I have used that technology on a daily basis for less than 1 year
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For a number of these technologies, I've heard of them but have not been inclined to investigate, which seems like it would be useful info to Adobe.

Tools for Game Art?

I admit it, I'm getting somewhat burned out on programming. There are a variety of reasons which I won't get into here. The bottom line is that I need a change of pace.
I have seen several comments within these posts about how difficult it is to find decent art for the latest games we are developing. I get the impression that the difficulty lies more in churning out the few dozens or hundreds of images (in whatever format) than in mastering a specific technique such as raytracing or building wireforms. RPGs and RTS'es suffer the most.
I'm willing to try my hand at making 2D art for now, or gradually ramp up to 3D. The problem is, I don't really know where to begin as far as software and desired file formats go. So the question is...
What do you use to make your art? MS Paint? Adobe Illustrator? Corel Draw? Your own custom tools? I'd especially like to try out some freeware packages first (other than GAIM).
Alternatively, are there any projects that need an apprentice artist and is willing to give some advice on how to get started with respect to their projects?

I use photoshop (you can get 6.0 at ebay for ~40-50 bucks - something similar for free would be gimp -> www.gimp.org), povray (www.povray.org), sodipodi (www.sodipodi.com), gmax (www.discreet.com), some selfwritten commandline tools for creating sheets and pngout for compression.
If you need alot of animations it's much easier if you go the 3d route: modeling, texturing, animating. One model = tons of animations. It's also easy to create new animations if you need em. [I'm talking about pre rendered sprites like everyone knows from donkey kong]
Well, you'll need alot of time until you can create decent art. And then you'll need alot of practise, because you are just way too slow.
Here are some examples for whoring and showoff purpose ;)
raytracing (povray)
http://people.freenet.de/ki_onyx/ludo_mockup8.png
http://people.freenet.de/ki_onyx/hq2cpma2r.png
Pretty hard to do. It's all math. You have to write code in the SDL (scene descipting language). Note: the board on image 1 is drawn with Java2d functions - however, the color values were taken from a previous rendering.
pixelated (mspaint, photoshop... whatsoever)
http://people.freenet.de/ki_onyx/evil.gif
http://people.freenet.de/ki_onyx/killbill4.gif
http://people.freenet.de/ki_onyx/favicon2l3.gif
Takes damn long. Even that tiny 16x16 icon took more than half an hour. You'll need lot's of practise for being fast (eg 30mins for image nr2 would be fast).
svg(scalable vector graphics - sodipodi)
http://people.freenet.de/ki_onyx/eye9c.png
Takes also rather long. However it's easier and faster to do than pixel stuff. Also creating sub frames isn't that much work.
photoshopping(uuuuh... photoshop and the like)
http://people.freenet.de/ki_onyx/tr_menu.gif
This one for example was done in some minutes. Noise, motion blur, some text there, rendering filter... done!
Oh and having a scanner is nice. You can use scanned sketches for everything (except povray heh).

Should I Create Another Apple Account For Game Center?

I have heard of issues where a person is doing software development work and they end up in a Game Center Sandbox instead of the real Game Center.
I am doing iOS software development work for both iPhone and iPad. In order to proactively avoid issues where my development world clashes with me as an end user, should I create another apple account and if so how?
Thanks!
P.S. I have apple care protection plan support for both mac and iPhone. If I should use one of those avenues, please let me know.

Read here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1311
You can continue to use all the apps on your phone, but if not physically located in the US anymore, you won't be able to purchase from the US store.

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Can't figure out Apple ID for Game Center

Back in the old days all you needed to sign into Game Center was your Username and password. I recently got a new phone and now it's telling me I need to sign in using my Apple ID. I don't remember the Apple ID that was associated with my username because that was long time ago. I know my username, but how do I figure out the ID that was associated with that particular Username? I don't want to start over all my progress in some installed games, please help

Was the process you used to go to http://appleid.apple.com and click 'Find your Apple ID'? - if you've already tried that with no success there isn't really anything else you can do.
You should also be aware that even if you manage to discover the ID it won't do you any good unless she has an iCloud account and had enabled 'Find My iPhone' on the device before it was lost.

Physics for game developers book. I need to know something about this book.

1. On Amazon, the discription says it is for people with college leval math. I am only fourteen, so that won't work for me.
2. The examples are in C++
I don't care if the book is in Java, but I need a good book on game DESIGN. Is this a good book:
Game Design: The Art & Business of Creating Games
by Bob Bates. I really need to know. Thanks. Are there any other good game DESIGN books? Preferably one that is either JAVA or not made for a lanquage. Thanks.
Virum

Basic physics equations etc. isn't that hard - GCSE
maths and science is enough to get a basic physics
demo up and running. If you've not covered these areas
yet you'll want to look into trigonometry (sin, cos
etc.) and the equations of motion (dealing with speed,
acceleration etc.).This is not true.
Figuring out the forces will give you some set of equations that relate accelerations, velocity and positions with some properties of the physical system you have. This is a system of second order differential equations, more or less complicated to solve, if you want to get position and velocity over time from it.
To solve this symbolically or to be able to write an algorithm that solves this numerically is something you learn at University, except for some very easy cases.
The book explains some of this.
Look at it but don't despair.
It is good enough if you get a physics engine in your hands, thus some ready coded routines that do the job of solving for you.
I believe that book has some.
Regards,
Marc

Can you have mutilple email account for game center

Can I have two email accounts for game center

Yes, you can have/use different Apple IDs for game center but youhave to sign out and sign in with the other (Settings>Game Center)

Having trouble making account for game center.

I've already made an apple ID but when I entered it on my new phone's game center, I got past the whole birthday thing but the next bit where it says to make a username when I press done it says that I haven't put in a password. I scrolled down but there is no where to put a password. Please help me cause I don't know how to do it. My old iPhone was an iPhone 3G so I didn't have game center.

Yes, you can have/use different Apple IDs for game center but youhave to sign out and sign in with the other (Settings>Game Center)

HT204053 Hi, I have 2 iPads. 1 is with my sister. I have my Apple ID for 1st iPad. Then I registered the same Apple ID to my iPad mini.Game Center will automatically change my Apple ID to my sister Apple ID, so how can I use my permanent Apple ID without

Hi, I have 1 iPad and 1 iPad mini. I use both iPad same Apple ID? So now iPad mini is with my sister. How do I separate the apple? The games enter always sign in my old Apple ID which Is use by my sister iPad mini. I already create a new Apple ID but it still sign in to my sister Apple ID automatically.
How can I separate it?? Pls help me. Thanks

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iTunes Store: Associating a device or computer to your Apple ID

I presently use iCloud and run a laptop PC plus an iPad2 and an iPhone 4. I plan to travel and want to take my netbook, rather than the laptop PC for travelling. How do I get my apple tools to work mwith a new, temporary PC?

I presently use iCloud and run a laptop PC plus an iPad2 and an iPhone 4. I plan to travel and want to take my netbook, rather than the laptop PC for travelling. How do I get my apple tools to work mwith a new, temporary PC?

ayorico15 wrote:
It's not the pictures I'm worried about. I can get them off my phone without iTunes.
You can export ONLY Camera Roll photos and videos.
ayorico15 wrote:
All my apps were downloaded from my new apple ID. Not his.
Sign in to iTunes Store (on desktop itunes) with your ID. Plug your iphone to itunes, right click on it and choose transfer purchases.Right click again and choose backup. Then you can sync with iTunes.
ayorico15 wrote:
It's not the pictures I'm worried about. It's all my saved conversations
Your conversations will not deleted if you sync with your iTunes.
What is the problem with iCloud? iCloud has nothing to do with iTunes syncing.

I just recently purchased a mini iPad for my child. It was set up in the Apple store with my Apple id. I now want to create an Apple id for my child and switch it over, how can I go about that. I already downloaded some of the games from my account.

I just recently purchased a mini iPad for my child. It was set up in the Apple store with my Apple id. I now want to create an Apple id for my child and switch it over, how can I go about that. I already downloaded some of the games from my account.

With a new account, you'll need to rebuy the games.
Each user should have their own icloud account, otherwise they end up getting the same emails, contacts, calendars, notes, reminders, etc. - usually not what you want. But if all have been sharing the same itunes ID, keep it that way, you can have different IDs for itunes and icloud.
If you already have another icloud account, and want to set it up on a device, then go to Settings>icloud, scroll to bottom of screen and tap Delete Account. This only disconnects the device from that account, no data is lost on icloud. Then enter the account ID that you want to use.
To create a new icloud account, go to
http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/

Can you have two nicknames for game center for two kids linked to one Apple ID?

Can you have two nicknames in game center (for each child) linked to one email/apple ID?

On each of the phones you're gonna use a new Apple ID for iCloud: turn off Contacts, Calendars, etc. for iCloud. You'll be prompted to keep the data or delete it from the phone, then turn off iMessage, FaceTime & delete the iCloud account...Settings>iCloud...scroll down...delete account. Then, setup iCloud using the new Apple ID, turn on iMessage & Facetime.
This will have no affect on the ID you share for iTunes content, & you can continue to do so.

Change the Apple ID for a game and not lose the progress made?

Short version of my question: can I change the apple id associated with a game to another one and not lose the progress made in the game thus far?
Long version: when there were only a few iGadgets in the house, all games and music were downloaded through Alpha's apple id and the credit card tied to that account. Now, we two folks have multiple iGadgets between the both of us and Beta has her own apple ID. Because we only used one apple id for so long, Beta has some games installed through Alpha's account and her own Beta account. Beta would now like to change the account the game PocketTimeSuck is associated with from Alpha's account to Beta's account without losing any of the progress made in this game which she has been playing for over a year.
Is there any way of re-installing PocketTimeSuck onto Beta's device under Beta's apple ID and maintain the progress in the game she has made after installing it under Alpha's apple id? Alpha would like to start playing PocketTimeSuck but cannot install it under her own apple id because it comes with all of Beta's progress.
(Also, if this is not the right forum, please let me know where I should post this question. Don't flame me, just tell me.)

I'm getting confused by the Greek alphabet here so I will explain it this way and hope I understand what you are asking.
Beta has been playing a game that she downloaded using Alpha's ID but now Beta would like to transfer the game and all of its progress to her own ID. That is not possible to do. The game was bought with Alpha's ID and is now associated with that ID and that progress is part of Alpha's backup.
Alpha now wants to play the game under her own ID but the game is associated with her ID already. If she wanted to, she could just pick up where beta left off and leave Beta out in the cold. Somehow I don't think that is a good solution for either Alpha or Beta.
Alpha should probably create a new Game Center account and start all over again with her own Game Center account. Beta will obviously have to do the same thing if she wants to play this game using her own Apple ID on her own iGadget.
So if I do understand correctly, Alpha and Beta will both have to start over again. Howver, I could be confused because this is all "Greek to me".

How do I purchase these tools for apple care technicin training

How do I purchase the tools for the on line course in apple care technician training? Can I get access to an old computer from Apple to work on?

If by "tools" you are referring to physical tools, you can buy tools through any standard tool seller or electronics parts supplier. I'm not aware that Apple sells tools, though I may well be wrong. I've never been a member of the certification program so I don't know all the features of the program.
Apple will not sell you discontinued computers. If you need a computer they no longer sell in the Apple Store as new or in the refurbished section, you'll need to look to independent dealers or private sellers.
Regards.

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