Chapter 6. Space Defender Part 1

How was your break? I hope it was good! Anyways, remember back in 1979 when times were easier? When the best game on the market was a simple 2D single-colored set of pixels flying around a CRT screen? Yes in 1979, Atari released arguably the most influential game in history, Asteroids. I never saw the '70s or most of the '80s but I played Asteroids, as has the majority of the world and it is quite an addictive game. It's one of those great games where you and a group of friends would play for hours to see who could get the high score. What does that have to do with this chapter? We are going to make an Asteroids clone, but we are going to have some better-looking effects. After all, our game is going to be on the iPhone!

This game is going to be a little more complex than our last one. We are going to incorporate some more touch controls via buttons to control the ship, include various enemies, and at the end of this chapter we are going to deploy our game to the iPhone for testing purposes, which will help immensely when getting your game ready to deploy to the App Store. You will get to see how it performs and controls on the device. Nothing would be worse than releasing a game that doesn't work! Let's see what we are going to cover in this chapter: