Key Classes

Snippet 1: Making a Menu

Snippet 2: Directing the Director

Snippet 3: Detecting Clicks on Cocos Nodes

Based Knowledge

• Black Art of 3D Game Programming: Writing Your Own High-Speed 3D Polygon Video Games in C (Awesome site for 3D gaming developing knowledges, very detailed…While this isn’t an OpenGL ES resource it is a great introduction to the 2D and 3D math involved in using OpenGL ES.  I  mention it first because if you don’t understand this stuff you’ll have a hell of a time coding OpenGL ES, and this is a great  introduction. It is an old book, but the math still holds true.)

OpenGL ES

• Khronos OpenGL ES Page (This is the OpenGL ES “homepage” on which you will find the reference manual, and lots of examples.  Not specifically IPhone, but there are some great examples here and even a complete racing game BSD licensed.)
• iPhone OpenGL ES Tutorial Series (about 17 examples for OpenGL ES tutorial, very good, and it keeps updating!!!)
• iPhone Development: OpenGL ES from the ground up(the blog of Jeff, the author of the famous iPhone development book. Very nice tutorials from basic knowledge, to touch control, accelerometer and so on… perfect! contents: Alphabet Soup, A Look at Simple Drawing, Viewports in Perspective, Let There Be Light, Living in a Material World, Textures and Texture Mapping, Transformations and Matrices, Interleaving Per-Vertex Data…etc…)
• 游戏是这样写成的 (Chineses tutorial from cocoachina)
• Vorm+Beweging OpenGL ES for iPhone Tutorials (good tutorials beginning with how to draw a circle)

Engine Frameworks

• cocos2d-iphone (This is an Open Source 2D OpenGL ES Game Framework for Iphone you can learn alot from going in and looking around the code, their framework offers lots of functions, very powerful.)
• UNITY (A commercial game Engine. The Unity game engine is happily married to the Unity development environment. This tight integration allows the Editor to do everything a published game can do. The simple, visual, and intuitive nature of the Editor makes building games fun again.)
• SIO2 (Very good open source iphone game engine ! )
• Shiva (Also a famous game engine for iphone)
• Torque 2D (A game engine for iphone, seems good. for 2D!)
• Nebula3 ( A open source 3D gaming engine framework for iphone )
• Bork 3D Game Engine ( It is said that  a good 3D engine for iphone. Seems a nice golf game is developed base on it)
• Oolong Engine (An Open source 3D OpenGL ES Game Engine for Iphone, MIT licensed,  that has converted many of the Khronos examples below to work on the IPhone.  Definitely worth looking at the code in here.  Keep in mind there is virtually no documentation.)
• Torque Game Engine (it’s a pretty powerful 3D engine that makes developing great games on the Mac that much easier. And now, they’ve released a version of it for the iPhone, complete with support for multitouch input and even screen gesture recognition.)
• Irrlicht Engine ( A free open source 3d game engine by C++, not specified by iphone but can be used for iphone)

Application Source Code:

• Touch Fighter by iPhone DEV ( A iphone game source code provided by apple DEV, very good)
• Gorillas ( An open source gaming application, it is like Worms)
• Molecules ( An open source 3D iphone application, which allows you to view three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulate them using your fingers. Here is the lessons from this molecule app  click )

Nice Websites

• http://maniacdev.com/2009/04/8-great-resources-for-learning-iphone-opengl-es/
• http://maniacdev.com/2009/07/16-killer-opengl-es-resources/