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#101  Edited By delski
@Von said:
" Apple themselves got a pretty comprehensive site regarding iPhone programming and Objective C. I haven't read the entire thread so I don't know if anyone else posted it but if you're interested it's over here:  http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action    Also, if I'm remembering correctly, you can develop apps without paying 90 bucks, but you're limited to running them under the iPhone emulator. Haven't got that far myself in my forays of iPhone gaming programming though. Still working on the basics of Objective C. "
  
Yeah thats absolutely right you can develop whatever you want for free you just cannot put it on any portable device, which is the kind of sucky point. Although the iPhone emulator I feel is perfectly fine to test apps and get experience in to start with. You've gotta remember also your money is for the year so overall it isn't too bad. I think if you have some spare time and gain enough expertise you can sell something for 59p or 99c and gain your money back fairly easily. I mean selling 500-1000 worldwide units of a game i don't think is particularly hard even if your game is pretty shitty (gameplay wise) and you get a 70% cut of the sales. So through simple maths if you sell a 1000 worldwide you should get either about 700 dollars or about 410 pounds so you could gain tidy profit.
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#102  Edited By FunExplosions
@Joru: Well, I don't really know enough about either C++ or C# to pick out their real differences. My main deterrent was that I started seeing way more tutorials for C++ and I heard a lot more people all around just saying that learning C++ is the best way to go.
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#103  Edited By Joru

The differences should be apparent if you look at some example code. C++ does have more tutorials, because it's a very popular language, and you should by all means learn it. I'm just trying to say, that if you have an idea for a game you want to make, something like C# would get you to your goal more quickly and with less headaches. You should learn C++ though. In my opinion, it isn't the perfect language, but it familiarises you with tons of concepts and both lower and higher level programming. 
 
Do keep in mind that a language is just a tool and for different jobs you need different tools. It's not difficult to learn other languages when you have already mastered one, since the underlying concepts usually remain the same or at least similar.

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#104  Edited By FunExplosions
@Venom2112: Hey man. This is by far the best C++ tutorial I've seen. It's straight up a tutorial for game development. The guy that wrote it kinda comes off as a dick, but you realize it's just because he doesn't like the stupid shit that teachers make kids do for their first program. He actually goes into great depth where he needs to. Here's the link:  http://www.devmaster.net/articles/intro-to-c++-with-game-dev/part1.php 
 
And he skips right over "Hello World," so people will want to have a very slim understanding of at least that, but it's not necessary.
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#105  Edited By duderbattalion
@FunExplosions: Awesome. Thanks for the heads up. Links on the main page now.