[TheNewAndy]

If you just want to write C and are ok linking to stuff that is in other languages, then I used SDL2 for my game which I wrote in C and is on the app store. It was a very pleasant experience, and if I were doing an iOS thing again, I would likely do something similar.

I think I had one objective C file in there for calling a library function I needed, but otherwise I just wrote C code.

[JKCalhoun]

SDL2 is awesome. Just the right level of abstraction for me (not "all-in" like Unity, etc.).

[radiator]

Would it also be possible to write in both C and another (small, implementation written in C) higher level language? For example Lua or similar?

[lpribis]

SDL2 + Lua is a pretty common combo. Lua is very easy to interface with and integrate.

[beeflet]

Just SDL2? Do you have access to OpenGL or some sound library as well? and if so what library are you using? How do you handle input and networking?

[TheNewAndy]

The game was 2d, and I just used the stuff in SDL_render.h for doing the graphics.

SDL2 has input stuff built in, so that is easy.

I didn't need networking for my game, so I didn't have it, but networking is not particularly difficult to do cross platform (I'm assuming iOS lets you just use the "normal" sockets API?)

I also used SDL2 for the sound stuff, which was mostly playing back prerecorded things, but also a little bit of stuff synthesized on the fly.

[Asmod4n]

SDL comes with a cross platform async socket API.

[flohofwoe]

You have an OpenGLES 3.0 C API on iOS but it's deprecated (still working fine though).

But SDL3's has its own 3D API now which (I assume) wraps Metal on iOS.

[hyperbrainer]

SDL does have a platform-agnostic render library for basic stuff, and you can integrate Metal into it pretty easily.

[lupyro]

Would you be open to answering a few more questions about this? My email is in my profile or I could reach out to you if you provided a way.

[deadbabe]

Any tutorial?