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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!

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849690263

Length 358 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

Mobile Game Development

Author (1):

Igor Uduslivii

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

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

Puzzle types

There are many kinds of puzzle mechanics, and in general, only a few of them are unsophisticated. As a rule, each game is a mix of various concepts and ideas. Nevertheless, let's try to identify some basic forms.

Word puzzles

In word puzzles, the players try to connect letters or symbolic images into words or expressions. This is a very popular class of games and many of them were created long before the first electronic devices were born. Among the popular examples are Crossword, Rebus, Cryptog ram, Hangman, Ghost, Jotto, Anagram, and Scrabble. Some of them operate with words, while others manipulate letters. Dictionaries are used to check existing or correct spelling. There are many word puzzles for mobile devices; one of the examples is an excellent game QatQi (http://qatqi.com) by Zworkbench, which is both very intelligent and magically beautiful.

Number (mathematical) puzzles

Number puzzles use different forms of exercises on combinatorics, arithmetic operations, algebra, and...

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Authors (1)

Igor Uduslivii

Igor Uduslivii

Igor Uduslivii is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer with more than a decade's experience in this domain. He specializes in artwork for mobile games and UI graphics such as icons and buttons. Currently, he cooperates with Spooky House Studios UG (haftungsbeschränkt), a game development company that has created popular puzzle titles such as Bubble Explode and Rail Maze. Right from his early years, he was passionate about drawing, computers, and video games. As a child, he liked to create illustrations by traditional painting methods as well as designing simple 8-bit games. After completing his studies from the Republican Colegiul de Informatica in Chisinau, Moldova, he began his career as an editor at Electronic Office publishing house, writing articles about new technologies and particularly, computer graphics. In parallel, he started studying Flash technology and animation. After that, he began actively working as a media designer, creating promo animations and Flash games. Igor also worked on the graphical look of software products, designing visual identities and UI elements. Among his clients were Kaspersky Lab, Reasoft, LemonStand, and many others. By now, most of his time is taken up by games. He is working on a full bunch of graphics, such as the application icon, characters, background art, props, textures, and animations. He is fond of design as an art form and pursues it as a hobby, developing various concepts in the domain of print and simple industrial design elements. In fact, all the images (except the screenshots for games and the photos) that appear in this book are designed by him. He also worked as the main graphic artist for mobile games such as Blueprint3D, Rail Maze, and Bubble Explode. One of his projects called Jackets and Bookmarks was showcased at the Kleinefabriek exhibition at Amsterdam in 2010.

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