Articles by Craig Giles (Articles: 7)

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iPhone	Parsing XML on the iPhone 2 Jun 2009 Updated: 2 Jun 2009 Rating: 3.43/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 2.90 Licence: CPOL Views: 45,422 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Since I am developing a game engine for the iPhone that I would like to re-use, I have chosen to host all game data in the form of XML files
	iPhone Gaming Framework: Stage 1 Tutorial 2 Jun 2009 Updated: 2 Jun 2009 Rating: 4.70/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 4.70 Licence: CPOL Views: 54,952 Bookmarked: 39 Downloaded: 412 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The goal for this tutorial is to get a basic screen management system up and running, ready to start writing game code.
	iPhone Gaming Framework: Stage 2 Tutorial 2 Jun 2009 Updated: 2 Jun 2009 Rating: 4.29/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.04 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,981 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An input manager to help you with input management
	iPhone Gaming Framework: Amendment 2 Jun 2009 Updated: 2 Jun 2009 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,500 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. There are a few things missing from the tutorials. This is the amendment, going to patch up the final few things to get you back on track!
	C++ on the iPhone: Test Driven Development 2 Jun 2009 Updated: 2 Jun 2009 Rating: 2.50/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.19 Licence: CPOL Views: 18,601 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. I have been learning quite a few development strategies as of late, and the newest one that I’ve taken a peek into is Test Driven Development (TDD), or Unit Testing.
	OpenGL ES: Texture2D and the Power of Two 19 Jul 2009 Updated: 19 Jul 2009 Rating: 3.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 38,744 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 322 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to adjust your Texture2D object to allow any sized textures in your OpenGL ES project.
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Objective C	OpenGL ES: Batch Rendering on the iPhone 22 Oct 2009 Updated: 22 Oct 2009 Rating: 4.90/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.95 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,800 Bookmarked: 13 Downloaded: 135 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Simply put, I was getting a few FPS problems with the development of my game, and thought I would come up with a way to batch all of my drawing into as few OpenGL calls as I could.