Are there any game engines for iPhone?

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The two most popular are probably Oolong and SIO2 but for what it's worth, I recommend you do something like this:

- Sound: use CAF files and apple's own SoundEngine OpenAL wrapper class from the samples (beware, there are memory leaks in the example code you'll need to plug)

- Models: use this wavefront OBJ loader for obj and mtl files exported directly from Blender or Max

- Textures: use Apple's own Texture2D class from the samples (bmp will work, but I recommend png because of the platform optimizations)

- 'Engine' is really just the classes that glue this stuff together. This guy's doxygen seems kind of "textbook". This guy also has a decent example UML too (IMHO).

Personally I think it's all so subjective, you really should write this stuff yourself because it should be architected for the way you need it, not just something written that tries to be everything to everybody.

FYI, our team decided to do everything in Objective-C++, where the core of the game is written in C++ and there is a thin layer of Objective-C on top of it that glues the code to the UI widgets and such things.

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