How should I organize a project with three distinct views and no tab/tool/navbars?

Question

I've spent too much time walking down dead ends on this project, so it's time to query the hive mind:

I am making a simple iPad game consisting of three locations which the user navigates between when an area of the screen is touched. These locations are represented by fullscreen images and there are a lot of different animations and stuff going on which makes it logical to divide each location into its own UIViewController.

The question is this: Which components should I use for handling the navigation between the locations/controllers?

UITabbarController: After finally managing to hide it away without a white bar at the bottom, I could not get selectedIndex to work in order to swap between view controllers.

UINavigationController: Does not permit more than one view controller inside, and I have three which I want to use. Is it possible to hide it away and still use it?

I could of course cram all my logic into a single UIViewController, but this seems plain wrong. Any advice or solutions for a newbie struggling towards journeymanhood would be greatly appreciated indeed!

Answer 1

If I well understand, everything happens like if you had three view to manage separately. If this is the case, you definitely should have three view controller. Communication between these controllers should then take place in the model. View controllers can be made aware of changes in the model through delegate in this case. If those interaction become too heavy, I suggest you create a super controller (application controller) managing the model and the three controllers.