Chapter 1. Designing a Simple, Frenzic-Style Puzzle Game

Wolfgang Ante

Designing a Simple, Frenzic-Style Puzzle Game

Company: ARTIS Software

Location: Vienna, Austria

Former life as a developer: Macintosh Software Developer since 1994. Received the Macworld Editor's Choice Award (1999) and MacUser Award 2004, both for Best Graphics Utility.

Life as an iPhone Developer: Built the Frenzic puzzle game with Xcode and Interface Builder

What's in this chapter: After providing some insight into the development of Frenzic, this chapter discusses a similar game called Formic that shows the basic techniques behind the game logic and animations of a puzzle game.

Key technologies

  • Using UIView animations for visual ...

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