8. Bitmap Fonts
Most games provide the player with important information during game play using text. It’s important to be able to provide players with information such as their score, health, and time, as well as messages for the players.
The iPhone SDK provides great features to render very attractive text to the screen. This is used by applications that use the UIKit components available on the iPhone. If you were developing a game using just UIKit, Quartz, and Core Animation, you could use these capabilities to easily select the font, size, and color of the text you want to display.
When using OpenGL ES to render the game scene, displaying text is a little more challenging. There are no features built into the OpenGL ES API to render text. ...
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