I have a game idea for an iPhone, and have a question in regards to pinch-to-zoom

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Hello good people.

I have an interesting idea (at least in my mind) for an iPhone game and for the game to work, I would need to have the pinch-to-zoom (and pinch-to-zoom-out) functionality similar to the one you see in say the Google Maps app.

The game “Angry Birds” for instance also has this functionality and you can zoom-in and zoom-out of the game by pinching…

Since my game will take place in a city similar to this one (http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-illustration-12650327-town-plan.php) and I will need to be able to zoom-in and zoom-out of it, my question is, how is this functionality achievable in an iPhone game and do I have to draw the game in a certain program (for instance Illustrator) to make it work?!

Please let me know everything you know about this!!

Your answers will be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks.

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Hrmm, well, I would suggest PhoneGap (for the app-making), and if you have Illustrator, you might look into the new [URL=“http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/illustrator_html5/”]HTML5 addon for the graphics/code making.

I personally have not dealt with any SVG graphics creation, but I think PhoneGap is cool because it is supposed to make app building easier as it utilizes technologies that are less foreign to folks already experienced in web design programming languages:

PhoneGap is an open source development framework for building cross-platform mobile apps. Build apps in HTML and JavaScript and still take advantage of core features in iPhone/iPod touch, iPad, Google Android, Palm, Symbian and Blackberry SDKs.

I suggest SVG for your graphics, but you could probably (also) use any other image format.

You could even use jQuery in phonegap… Search the web for graphics creation using jquery.

If you want to build a web app, not an “actual” app, then you might gander at the jquery mobile framework.

Does that help?

Cheers!
Micky

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Hello,

If you did have this game created we would be happy to review it, and have some traffic sent your way for hopefully some sales.

Good luck,