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Learning Cocos2d-x Game Development

By : Siddharth Shekar

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Learning Cocos2d-x Game Development

3 (1)

By: Siddharth Shekar

Overview of this book

If you are a hobbyist, novice game developer, or programmer who wants to learn about developing games/apps using Cocos2d-x, this book is ideal for you.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

1. Getting Started

1. Getting Started

Downloading and installing Visual Studio

Downloading and installing the Windows Phone SDK

Downloading and installing Python

Downloading Cocos2d-x

Creating a new project

Coordinate system

Basic classes of Cocos2d-x

Project breakup

Running the project on multiple platforms

Summary

2. Displaying the Hero and Controls

2. Displaying the Hero and Controls

First things first

Displaying the background image

Character movement

Enabling the touch function

Enabling multitouch

Movement with touches

Movement with the accelerometer

Custom controls

Summary

3. Enemies and Controls

3. Enemies and Controls

Creating the enemy class

Adding the gameplay layer

Creating the projectile class

Adding hero controls

Summary

4. Collision Detection and Scoring

4. Collision Detection and Scoring

Theory of collision detection

Coding collision detection

Keeping track of the score and the game over condition

Storing high scores

Summary

5. HUD, Parallax Background, and the Pause Button

5. HUD, Parallax Background, and the Pause Button

Texts and fonts

Creating the HUD layer and displaying as well as updating scores

Creating the pause button and showing the pause screen

Implementing pause and resuming the game

Adding the scrolling layer class

Creating the parallax scrolling layer

Summary

6. Animations

6. Animations

Animation basics

TexturePacker

Creating a spritesheet for the player

Coding the player animation

Creating and coding enemy animation

Creating the skeletal animation

Coding the player walk cycle

Summary

7. Particle Systems

7. Particle Systems

What is a particle system?

Cocos2d-x's inbuilt particle system

Adding the gun muzzle particle system

Adding an explosion particle system

Adding particles for jetpack when a player moves upwards

Creating your own particle system

Summary

8. Adding Main and Option Menu Scenes

8. Adding Main and Option Menu Scenes

Creating the main menu scene

Loading the menu scene at start of the app

Creating the Options scene

Changing the name of the app

Summary

9. Adding Sounds and Effects

9. Adding Sounds and Effects

Audio in Cocos2d-x

Adding looped background music

Adding sound effects

Adding the mute button

Summary

10. Publishing to the Windows Phone Store

10. Publishing to the Windows Phone Store

A look at the Windows Phone Store

Creating the store account

Preparing/creating the app

Creating the app and setting pricing

Uploading the XAP file, icons, and screenshots for review

Summary

11. Porting, References, and Final Remarks

11. Porting, References, and Final Remarks

Running the game on the Windows desktop

Running the game on the Android simulator using the Eclipse IDE

Running on the BlackBerry simulator using the Momentics IDE

Running on an iOS simulator using Xcode

Additional learning resources

Final remarks and a thank you note

Index

Index

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Running on an iOS simulator using Xcode

To bring the project onto Mac, you can simply copy the whole Cocos2d-x-2.2.3 folder from your Windows machine and paste it anywhere on the Mac machine and that's all. There are no additional steps required.

If you would like to know how to create the project on Mac, open up the terminal and navigate to Cococs2d-x-2.2.3/tools/project-creator and type the command we typed to create the project in Windows; but here you don't have to type python first:

Running on an iOS simulator using Xcode

To run the game on Xcode on Mac, you will have to first install Xcode on your machine if you haven't already done so. You can click on the store, search for Xcode, and start downloading it, as shown in the following screenshot. Any version of Xcode is fine if you are running on the simulator. If you have a device, then you will have to pay $100 and create a developer account to test your game on the device.

Running on an iOS simulator using Xcode

Once you have installed Xcode, you can open up the wp8Game.xcodeproj file in the proj...

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