I've never programmed games before, although I've got a fair bit of useful OS X utility software under my belt. I've now had a few ideas that I'd like to implement - and I'm stuck at almost the first hurdle. I've managed to create an OpenGL view (by way of experimentation) and chuck a few graphics into it (triangles, circles (well, the closest OpenGL can get to a circle anyway!) and so forth). But I can't work out how to get that OpenGL view to accept keystrokes from my event loop. When it comes to tile based games I'm at a complete loss.
Obviously, there are various resources out there (SDL, Blitz etc), but I'd rather not use those because I want to understand the ins and outs of my engine. I've googled and come up with plenty of resources for Windows game programming - but not so many for the Mac. In fact, the only book that approaches what I'm after (with friendly examples) is "Pangea Software’s Ultimate Game Programming Guide for Mac OS X" - but that's rather out of date. What I really want is something like the excellent guides written by luminaries like Kochan or Hillegass, but focussed on game programming for OS X. Does anyone know if such a guide exists? Failing that, is anyone able to suggest a noddy guide to programming games that I might be able to find on the 'net (because so far my efforts have been rather below par). Sorry to post such a non-technical question - I didn't know who else to ask._______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
