macOS Mac Game Development

[Blakeasd]

Hello,
I would like to start creating games for the Mac in Xcode. I have been looking for up to date books, but have found none. All the Objective-C game development books have been for the iPhone. Does anyone know of a Mac Game Making in Xcode book or tutorial?
Thanks

 

[GorillaPaws]

Do you have any previous programming experience? If not, you should probably do some searching of this site, or check out the macrumors guides on how to start programming. If you're already up-to-speed, you might want to check out this free book. It's a bit dated, but should get you going in the right direction.

 

[mac2x]

This was posted here on the Mac Programming forum a few months ago.

 

[szymczyk]

I recommend going with a cross-platform technology for writing Mac games. For 3D games, try Unity. Its free version lets you make games for Mac, Windows, and the Web.

For 2D games try a cross-platform game framework like SDL, SFML, or Allegro. I use SDL and OpenGL, where I use OpenGL for drawing and SDL for reading player input and creating a window. In the time you would spend learning how to read player input from the keyboard with Cocoa for the Mac, you could learn how to do it in SDL (or SFML or Allegro) and get Windows and Linux support for free. If you click the link in my signature, you'll find an article I wrote on getting started with SDL and OpenGL on Mac OS X.

 

[Blakeasd]

Thanks mac2x for the website recommendation, its been very helpful. Also thanks GorillaPaws for the book recommendation. I have one more question, the book had a lot of Carbon code in it, how hard would it be to convert the Carbon code to Cocoa? I would like to do this because I'm not sure 10.7 will support Carbon. Should I bother trying to convert it to Cocoa or just leave it in Carbon?