Touch in Torque
by rennie moffat · in Game Design and Creative Issues · 06/09/2009 (10:49 am) · 48 replies
I just found out about Torque today after spending two months studying C, Objectice C and XCode. I want to build to 2D games essentially so this is, seeminlgy perfect. So just me wondering, but, I want to build games for the iPhone. So, as such, this is becasue I want to utilise touch and accelerometer.
I did a quick search in the Torque wiki, and could not see anything that related to touch. So what I am wondering does it have Touch classes, or must I create the touch classes in Xcode.
How does this work exactly? Am I looking at cross platform building?
I did a quick search in the Torque wiki, and could not see anything that related to touch. So what I am wondering does it have Touch classes, or must I create the touch classes in Xcode.
How does this work exactly? Am I looking at cross platform building?
About the author
My thanks to Garage Games and the Garage Games Community combined with owned determination I got one game up, Temple Racer and I am looking to build more interesting, fun games for the mass market of the iOS app store.
#42
07/08/2009 (12:04 pm)
Bear in mind that a lot of folks are still on vacation for the july 4th week, kids are still out on summer break, and so some delay in response can be expected... These guys are working very hard on engine updates or their own projects, so expecting them to keep themselves chained to their computers during this period might be a little much :) 
#43
@Ny Andry: You need an Intel-based Mac, you need the iPhone SDK (which is SDK+iPhone OS headers, OS X-based) and a subscription from Apple ($99 in the US, less in many other countries). You also need an iDevice, of course. You can make the game with iTGB on Windows first (designing for iPhone resolutions), then load it up on a Mac when ready to test and build to the device. Repeat until bugs are worked out :)
07/08/2009 (10:07 pm)
Heat wave in my country. Brain fried, can't answer anything intelligently anymore :P@Ny Andry: You need an Intel-based Mac, you need the iPhone SDK (which is SDK+iPhone OS headers, OS X-based) and a subscription from Apple ($99 in the US, less in many other countries). You also need an iDevice, of course. You can make the game with iTGB on Windows first (designing for iPhone resolutions), then load it up on a Mac when ready to test and build to the device. Repeat until bugs are worked out :)
#44
08/02/2009 (10:35 am)
Thx Ronny :)
#45
I in theory, can simply build a game in TGB... then the iTGB thing messes me up. What is the purpose beyond a license?
08/02/2009 (11:38 am)
So let me get this straight. I in theory, can simply build a game in TGB... then the iTGB thing messes me up. What is the purpose beyond a license?
#46
08/02/2009 (6:25 pm)
Well, you get the platform layer for the iPhone. Just like licensing the Wii or 360 engines provide the platform support layer.
#47
08/04/2009 (8:00 am)
OK, will look more into later. BUt thanks for your help so far.
#48
08/04/2009 (8:01 am)
PS. Does/will TGB be able to access iPhone Voice recognition for it's games? 
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