There are several useful tools and apps that help iPad app developers to create robust, interactive and interesting games to offer great gaming experience to the users. Here are some of the great tools used by the developers making their development phase smoother and faster.

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Excellent Tools for iPad Game Developers
iPad offers a better gaming experience compared
to Apple's iPhone due to its bigger screen size. iPad
is an innovative device with various inbuilt features
supporting game development. The most
promising ones are its large multi-touch screen
and high speed processor etc. providing the
gamers with great experience and encourage iPad
game developer to develop games keeping these in
mind.
The virtual keyboard and the accelerometer add new dimensions to
game play.
There are myriads of iPad games that can be downloaded from iTunes store. The growing
demand of new games has accelerated the demand for developers as well. For
developing unique and engaging games for iPad there are various tools available in the
market. Some of the popular and useful iPad game development tools are discussed
here:
TexturePacker
It is an editor tool for developing sprite sheet. This tools is
packed with several features like smart-folders,
Trimming/Cropping, layout algorithms etc. Using this tool
developers can edit, crop, import, export the files in
multiple formats. There are two types of layout algorithms
– Basic and MaxRects which are ideal for tilemaps and
clean and simple animations.
This tool can be used in all major operating systems under
the same license. It is an ideal tool for editing the texture
of the sprite sheets.
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CocosBuilder
CocosBuilder tool is conceptualized to develop games
rapidly. The games developed on CocosBuilder, which
include the codes, animation and interface, can run
without any customization on Android, iPhone and HTML
5. It is fast gaining momentum as one of the ideal and
complete suite of tool for developing, testing and publishing the games.
Its latest version, CocosPlayer, can be installed on the iPad device or in simulator and it
automatically connects via Wi-Fi to CocosBuilder and start generating new codes and
resources to the iPad without recompilation of the same.
FontEditor
This software is designed to create or modify the fonts of the
tiles. There are two different font editors – one crafted to edit
bitmap fonts and the other one outline fonts. Majority of the
font editors are used to work on outline fonts. This tool is easy
to use and edit. It is packed with number of font types also to
choose from. It is also backed by user manual to understand
and take outside help in case of any confusion.
It is a complete package of tool with an objective to enhance and modify the fonts of
game, offering best impact.
ParticleCreator
This, developer tool, is made for OS X to simplify the
efforts of creating particle effects in Cocos 2D games. It
has been conceptualized to expedite the slow pace of
adjustment in code variables to generate an expected
particle effect. It allows you to rapidly create, preview,
alter, test and save a tailor made impact. Once saved, it
automatically creates Cocos2D codes that are stored in
the project resource folder.
It is equipped with large library of particle and texture templates also.
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Above said are some of the promising and popular developer tools that are
comprehensively used by the majority of iPad application developers to create engaging
and interactive games.
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