Sparrow Wiki

• Rotating an object around a custom point
• Flipping an object
• Modifying the Color of an Image
• Creating Color Gradients
• Iterating over Child Objects
• Non-destructive Drawing
• Tilemaps with compiled Sprites

• Using bitmap fonts
• Making HD games
• Rendering objects into a UIImage

• More about Tweens
• More about Jugglers
• Advanced Animation Techniques

• Sound on iOS - Best practices

• Accelerometer Setup and Easy Fine-tuning

• Basic Collision Detection
• Auto-rotating the Interface
• Using landscape mode
• Automatically update the screen orientation
• Making a Button
• Managing Game Scenes

• Creating a Sparrow Project from Scratch:
  • Sparrow 1.x – Xcode 3, Xcode 4
  • Sparrow 2.x – Creating a Sparrow Project from Scratch
• A simple way to let Xcode stop on an error

• Using iAds with Sparrow

There are things every Sparrow developer needs now or then, but it's not worth adding it to Sparrow directly, or to create an extension for it. If you know such a useful little helper, please add it to this list!

• Media class — a simple class managing textures and sounds of a game
• Intertial scrolling — how to move objects in a natural way
• Custom transitions — how to create custom transition methods for tweens
• Finding out the FPS — how to get the real number of frames per second
• Math utilities — Useful math functions, vectors, paths, intersections

There are several Open Source games available that you can have a look at. A great way to learn how to build a real game!

• Open Source Games — free Sparrow-powered games with source code

Found an interesting tutorial or other interesting Sparrow-related article on the web? Please add a link to it here!

• Tutorial: Using the Accelerometer with Sparrow 2.0 on behindthecode.net — 08/2013
• Sparrow 2.0 migration tutorial on behindthecode.net — 07/2013
• Video Tutorials that show you how to get started with Sparrow — 03/2012
• The big Sparrow Tutorial for Beginners by Holger, on the gamua.com homepage — 03/2012
• Learn Objective C, a great tutorial with all the basics about Objective-C. A must-read for newcomers! — 09/2011
• Cocoa Magazine:
  • the July 2011 issue contains a game development tutorial — 07/2011
  • the August 2011 issue elaborates on the game created in part one by adding textures and more advanced game mechanics — 08/2011
• Tile based games: these tutorials teach you all you need to know to create tile based games, e.g. platformers. It was written for Flash/AS3, but the principles are exactly the same for Sparrow. — 07/2011
• Using the Sparrow Framework with MonoTouch on blog.jayway.com — 06/2011
• Beginner iPhone Action Game Programming Tutorial on maniacdev.com — 08/2010
• Memory Management with Sparrow on rx-games.com — 05/2011
• Click to Add on TheiFuze.com — 09/2011
• Fading Images on TheiFuze.com — 09/2011