IPhone Programming Tutorial

For non trivial games I always suggest taking the opengl (gl-es) route.

This sample project should get you started: http://www.71squared.co.uk/iPhone/CrashLanding.zip

This is from Apple itself . It has been removed from their site since the audio code is outdated (it's no longer compatible with most recent OS versions).

It also contains some wrapper code to easily load images into textures and to generate textures with a string of text and a specified font and size.

By coincidence I spent much of my weekend working through these tutorials (see the link bar on the right, work from the top). They are good. There are some minor differences with the SDK 3.0. For example, there is a setText method mentioned in an early part of the tutorial series which works but is deprecated.

It seems there was at one time a forum off this site but when I investigated over the weekend the links weren't working. I think it's useful to work at the same pace as other people on things like this.

So I have set up http://wecode.wikispaces.com/ in case any other people from hacker news would like to work through the tutorials and hopefully we can make notes about things such as changes resulting from deprecation, or cross link to extension topics from the tutorials. I'm at work at the moment and won't have time to work on this for a few hours, but may this evening.

I would also look at http://code.google.com/p/cocos2d-iphone/

This is one of the better resources for learning iPhone development out there. A lot of nice gems of tutorials there.

Unity3d!