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So you have a great idea for an iPhone or iPad game, but you´ve never programmed before. Where to start? Here! With GameSalad, you can design, build, and publish a 2D game in the App Store using an easy-to-use, no-programming-required game creation tool.
Learn GameSalad for iOS shows you how to set up your development environment and how to create a variety of simple 2D games from a breakout-style game to an arcade shooter to a maze game. You´ll also learn how to use GameSalad to create a non-game app as well. This book also takes you beyond game development into getting your game into the App Store, using iAd, and marketing your game.

A clear, step-by-step approach to GameSalad for the complete beginner
Create fun, complete, and fully functional game projects
An idea to App Store publishing guide

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Preparing Your Design Environment

Your First Game from Scratch: The Pong Game
Finishing Pong: Scoring and Game Interaction
Break a Wall: Implementing Comments, Accelerometer Movements, LifeManagement, and Pause
Making a Shoot ´Em Up Game: Carrot Invader
Learning Gravity, Basic Physics and Camera Controls: An Angry Birds-like Game, Part I
Creating a Game Menu and a Particles Effect: An Angry Birds-like Game, Part II
Graphics and Sound Effects: Labyrinth
Bonuses, Game Center, and iAd: Break a Wall
Device Internal Clock and Cyclic Movement: Non-Game Apps
Submitting Your Game to the App Store
Introduction to Game Promotion

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