Programming Games for iPhone

Question

Is it best to program a game for the iPhone in Objective C or in C++.
What language would a game like Flight Control be written in?
What format should graphics be in to show properly and load quickly on the iPhone?

Answer 1

Games like Flight Control are usually written in Objective-C with some C calls to OpenGL and other C APIs. The graphics can be stored in PNG or JPEG. I would stay out of C++ unless I had to use some C++ code or had developers with good C++ knowledge. According to my experience the bottleneck is seldom in the language, so that you haven’t much to gain by switching to C++.