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iPhone Game Blueprints

You're reading from   iPhone Game Blueprints If you're looking for inspiration for your first or next iPhone game, look no further. This brilliant hands-on guide contains 7 practical projects that cover everything from animation to augmented reality. Game on!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849690263
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Igor Uduslivii Igor Uduslivii
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting the Game FREE CHAPTER 2. Ergonomics 3. Gesture Games 4. Card and Board Games 5. Puzzles 6. Platformer 7. Adventure 8. Action Games 9. Games with Reality Index

Thinking about the plot and decorations

It is good to start with an idea of a gesture game featuring a very minimalistic plot: a name, few abstract rules, and score statistics at the end. There is no need to create some narrative structures, characters, dialogues, and so on. But the minimalistic approach needs an appropriate objectification. All elements of the game: media, artwork, GUI, and icons, have to be laconic too. If everything is done correctly, the game can look nice and elegant, especially from a graphic designer's point of view. The game can be truly digital and modernistic, along with flat graphics, clear colors, minimum ornamentation, large and light sans serif fonts, and well-balanced graphic compositions. Let's give that game a code name, Clear gesture.

Thinking about the plot and decorations

The following are the advantages of the design and idea concept:

  • Looks fashionable having a graphic style that is very appropriate to the iOS 7-generation GUI
  • The designers would like it
  • The graphics are simple and...
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