BleepnGames Development Blog

I’ll be using this blog to track my teams progress while we develop our first iPhone game using the Unity for iPhone engine and tools.  We haven’t shipped an iPhone game and we’ve only just started using the Unity tools.  If I manage to keep regular with updates, this site should provide a pretty good overview of our experiences thruout the dev cycle.

Up to this point, I’ve brought about a 1/2 dozen iPhone game and app designs to 1st pass, more or less.  Some of them could turn out to be good games, others we’re not so sure of yet.  But we’ve picked 1 that we’re going to move forward with, at least for now.  We should have basic gameplay working in a week or so, then we’ll get a better idea if the core design has fun potential.

A few weeks back I picked up a refurb macbook 13″, and installed the iPhone SDK (Build: 9M2621a).  Then today I got around to signing up to the iPhone Developer program - $99 + tax (tax?) as an Individual.

Yesterday I installed Unity for iPhone (30 day eval) and played around with it a little bit (I also tried Unity3D a few weeks ago, did some tutorials).  I downloaded a few example iPhone apps and poked around in the UI and scripting docs for a bit.  I was ready to build and send one to my phone but then I had to go thru all the dev signup I mentioned before.

Once I got my Developer account, I found that I still have to: obtain a certificate, create an Apple ID, assign my device, and create a provisioning profile.  Sheesh.  And all of that stuff is pretty complicated and not very clearly described.  Anyway, I ran out of time so I’ll probably get to all that tomorrow.  Then(!) I’ll be able to build one of the sameple Unity apps and upload it to my phone.

Today’s relevant links:

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/index.action

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/manage/overview/index.action

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/

http://twitter.com/meanstreak (oh, and I fired up my twitter account for the first time in a year)

http://unity3d.com/support/resources/example-projects/iphone-examples

https://www.unitydeveloper.com/shop/home.php

http://forum.unity3d.com/