iPhone Development

I've just signed up as an iPhone Developer.


I've just found this which gives a short tutorial on how to use Dashcode, an IDE for creating web applications for the iPhone, or other devices potentially.  But I'm most interested in the iPhone applications.
Another DashCode tutorial


After I watched this video, I was impressed with what can be made potentially from this platform.

So I went here to sign up and here are the first tools that they link you to.

iPhone Entrepreneur

Unity Download - Unity is a multiplatform game development tool that I need to use.  I think it will work for me.  I'm looking into it now.

Update - Apple is now charging $99 to become an iPhone/iPad developer.  That sucks, but I plan to pony up the cash when I have it.  I really need to get in on this wave.  The iPad looks very hot as a gaming platform.

More stuff:
Article about 3rd party tools
Lots of Resources
Open Laszlo for the iPhone
Full ToolKit

Big Stuff Here
Apparently Apple's latest announcement that they are going to allow 3rd party toolkits to development for the iPhone applies directly to Adobe's CS5 Flash.   I didn't know it until now but Flash CS5 has a iPhone packager that will wrap up a flash app into an apple compliant app suitable for the iPhone.  Sweet
Details here

Mac / Cross Platform Game Engines

Apple's Best Four

Unity 3D - this engine is awesome, there's a free version but the paid is quite expensive but potentially very worth it.

C# Game Programming

Looks like I'm going to be teaching this in Simulation and Game Design.... So I better start learning it huh?
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Articles/ArticleListing.aspx?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=65

Game Maker Resources

Here are some links to resources online:

Charas project

Home Serving

http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/hostmyown.html

http://johnbokma.com/windows/apache-virtual-hosts-xp.html

C++ Game Programming Resources

Thomas Cormen,

Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming

Matthew Austern, Generic Programming and the STL
STL Tutorial and Reference Guide.

Effective STL

SGI's STL reference

Dev.net - list of engines.
Game Middleware
Epic Games
Torque Game Builder

John Romero Apologizes

For Daikatana

Developing for Android

Just started looking into this.
Android ADT for Eclipse

Facebook Game Development

I'm going to look into this as well.  Gotta learn everything all at once!

Facebook Developer
FB Dev Wiki
Getting Started

Third Party Tutorial on FB Dev
Another Tutorial - FB App in 10 Mins
Flash Tutorial for Beginners
Tutorialized - I'm working through this one right now.... I'm liking it so far, although it's a bit dated, working on Flash 8 when Adobe is currently up to CS4 but it says most of it will carry forward, so I'm going to try it out.
Flash Buttons the New Way

Tutorialized


Flash Samples - lot of examples with code samples.
Flash Coord System - how Flash and ActionScript handle x,y coords
Mouse Coords - example of following the mouse coords
Even Better Coords Example

Illustrator - Live trace tutorial  very nice.

MVC for flash Game Development - pretty good tutorial on how to use MVC in Flash Game dev

Fireworks Beginnings

This is my starting place, trying to figure how I can use Fireworks as a rapid web development tool.

My Flash Beginnings

Ok, so I know that in the future I'll have to teach Flash/ActionScript so I might as well start getting acquainted with it now.

So I'll start here.
Importing graphics into Flash

Learn Flash CS 4 Professional - whole series of video tutorials from Adobe to get you through Flash Dev
Understanding Symbols in Flash

Sprites

Chara something
Animated Gif's in Photoshop CS4 - this is a really straighforward tutorial on how to get an animated gif created in PS.  Which then can be used for a sprite.

Adobe's Frame Animation
Adobe's Q&A



Notes on Photoshop's Animation
Questions:
Right clicking on a Frame gives you the menu options: Automatic, Dispose, and Do Not Dispose.  Haven't quite figured out what they do yet.
It appears that the layers and the frames are linked in some way.
Match Layers across frames?
Create New Layer for Each New Frame?
New Layers Visible in All Frames?

Podcasting 101

Ok, so I've done some Camtasia videos for a class I'm teaching, I've placed them on Youtube.  So why not go the full distance and create a Podcast for them?  Why?  Because I don't know how, that's why.  But I shall soon learn.

I've found this helpful bit.  And I'll find others.  Timothy Bivans will be in the iTunes machine yet!

Adobe Bridge - Br - Exploration

In teaching my Photoshop class I came across Adobe Bridge and wondered, "What is that?".  Well, apparently it is Adobe's media manager, and it looks to have quite a few cool features that I'm going to look into.

Complete Guide 1

Java Game Development

Well, since I've been given this new position and all, and I am teaching Advanced Java as well this semester, I thought that I would look into Java Game Programming.

Might be an easier way into the gaming world, given that I'm more familiar with the Java language than I am with C++

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Here is a game made with the JMonkey Engine
NordGame

I am currently installing the Java Monkey Engine for Eclipse so I will let you know how that goes.
Well, I've nearly succeeding in getting JMEngine running on a Vista box, but I'm having a devil of a time getting it running on my MacBook Pro.   Pissing me off.

Here are some links:
Tutorial
forum post 1
8 Tutorials for JME Physics 
More basic JME
MD5 exporter for Maya
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Here are some links to get me started:
Java Game Programming 1
Java Game Prog 2
Java Cooperation Game Programming
Java Game Example

Applet Dev
Number one

Python Game Development -
Pygame

Triangle Game Conference

I've been told that I have to come up with some personal development activity, so I've decided that this will likely be my first Game Dev conference.

Triangle Game Conference - Held in Raleigh, NC, this conference hosts around 70 different gaming companies from the area as well as educators and other interested parties.  It should be very interesting.  It will be my first gaming conference so I'm looking forward to it.

PHP and Apache on OS X

Links just to remind me how to enable these on Mac OS X.

Apache is simple, basically you just have to turn on Web Sharing.
Good article on PHP