should i learn Quartz for iphone game programming?

Question

Hi all..I wanna learn and develop 2d game on iphone but i don't know if i should learn Quartz 2d first, or i can just jump into openGL ES directly?

Answer 1

This should be a comment but i'm not allowed to comment yet:

Your question is subjective. The answer depends on what kind of game you want. You can always use UIKit and CoreAnimation (Quartz) for simple 2d animations/games. If you want to build heavy/complex/3D animations with good frame rates you might try OpenGL but it will be harder to learn.

Answer 2

My suggestion is to take a look at cosos2d first...

Answer 3

I'm learning OpenGLES now, and it's not simple. That said, there's probably more documentation out there for it, and Apple has a lot of stuff held in its dev center.

Look at it this way - learning OpenGLES now will pay off in the future, as OGL works on just about every platform under the sun, or hidden away from the sun indoors. If I were you, I'd bite the bullet and learn OES.