This is the second in a series of iPhone related Game Development video tutorials using Cocos2D. In this screencast, I will show you how to use an awesome piece of software called TexturePacker (by Andreas Löw) to create highly optimized spritesheets for your game. I will then show you how to use those spritesheets to render [...]

This is the first in a series of iPhone related Game Development video tutorials using Cocos2D. In this screencast, I go through download and installing XCode, rendering a sprite and performing actions such as Jumping, Moving and Rotating on a Sprite. If you have any comments, suggestions or perhaps your stuck and need some help, [...]

In what is the first ever MC screencast, I will be walking you through getting started with the XCode development environment, showing you around both XCode & Interface Builder and finally running a very basic test application using the iPhone Simulator. I have tried to cover as much as I possibly could in this screencast, [...]

First of all I would like to point out that the awesome picture above of Steve Jobs using only Typography was created by Dylan Roscover – checkout his Deviant art page here. Now on to the main point of this post – Jobs (The working kind!). I have decided to open the doors of MC [...]

Hi all, Unfortunately, release of the first screencast is going to be delayed until Thursday due to my lack of internet at home. The reason being, that I have recently moved house and BT have told us that they will be sending an engineer round on Thursday to setup the phone line etc, and that [...]

Before I post the first MC screencast (Which I am hoping to get online by Monday!) I thought now would be a great time to post an XCode Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat Sheet that I found whilst reading another Cocoa related blog – Cocoa Samurai. The cheat sheet has a great layout, and splits up keyboard [...]

There has been speculation galore over the past few months as to what Apple’s next big announcement at todays event would be. Many have said that it could be the next iPhone (in hindsight, this was probably a long shot since the iPhone 3GS is still pretty new), and many speculated a multi-touch tablet. Well [...]

Hello everyone and welcome to the Mmm… Cocoa (MC for short – clever, eh?!) podcast/blog. With MC I aim to provide you, the audience, with at least one video podcast a week on a specific Cocoa/Objective-C/Xcode topic, and explain it in such a way that almost anyone can and will be able to understand. That [...]