[casual_games] iPhone SDK

[Chris Dillman]

>As for porting to iPhone, I would very much consider it if my C++ 

>engine can be ported without having to marry myself to objective-c 

>or objective-c++.

>Our engine runs on Mac already, so unless they chose Cocoa Touch to 

>be an excuse to shove objective-c even farther down our throats, I 

>would definitely consider it.

>Am I the only mac developer who finds it annoying that in order to 

>be a first rate citizen on Mac, you are forced into using obj-c?

>

>I think 70% revenue share sounds good compared to the level we are 

>used to from the casual games industry at large.


Hmm its more like this.

You can use C / C++ just fine on the iphone but your API calls are 
going to mostly go through cocoa / Obj C.

In the case of say SDL I believe its already calling to cocoa APIs 
for everything now.

Other APIs are plain C like GL ES, Open AL etc.

Any how my point is that your C++ engine should in theory be easily portable to
the iphone SDK with maybe some trivial re coding of light wrappers to 
objective-c++ to handle events and set up windows etc.




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