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Learning Cocos2d-x Game Development

Learning Cocos2d-x Game Development

By : Siddharth Shekar
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Learning Cocos2d-x Game Development

Learning Cocos2d-x Game Development

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By: Siddharth Shekar
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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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Getting Started
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1. Getting Started
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Downloading and installing Visual Studio
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Downloading and installing the Windows Phone SDK
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Downloading and installing Python
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Downloading Cocos2d-x
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Creating a new project
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Coordinate system
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Basic classes of Cocos2d-x
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Project breakup
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Running the project on multiple platforms
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Summary
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2. Displaying the Hero and Controls
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2. Displaying the Hero and Controls
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First things first
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Displaying the background image
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Character movement
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Enabling the touch function
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Enabling multitouch
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Movement with touches
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Movement with the accelerometer
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Custom controls
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3. Enemies and Controls
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3. Enemies and Controls
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Creating the enemy class
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Adding the gameplay layer
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Creating the projectile class
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Adding hero controls
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4. Collision Detection and Scoring
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4. Collision Detection and Scoring
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Theory of collision detection
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Coding collision detection
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Keeping track of the score and the game over condition
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Storing high scores
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5. HUD, Parallax Background, and the Pause Button
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5. HUD, Parallax Background, and the Pause Button
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Texts and fonts
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Creating the HUD layer and displaying as well as updating scores
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Creating the pause button and showing the pause screen
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Implementing pause and resuming the game
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Adding the scrolling layer class
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Creating the parallax scrolling layer
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6. Animations
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6. Animations
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Animation basics
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TexturePacker
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Creating a spritesheet for the player
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Coding the player animation
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Creating and coding enemy animation
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Creating the skeletal animation
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Coding the player walk cycle
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7. Particle Systems
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7. Particle Systems
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What is a particle system?
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Cocos2d-x's inbuilt particle system
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Adding the gun muzzle particle system
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Adding an explosion particle system
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Adding particles for jetpack when a player moves upwards
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Creating your own particle system
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8. Adding Main and Option Menu Scenes
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8. Adding Main and Option Menu Scenes
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Creating the main menu scene
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Loading the menu scene at start of the app
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Creating the Options scene
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Changing the name of the app
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9. Adding Sounds and Effects
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9. Adding Sounds and Effects
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Audio in Cocos2d-x
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Adding looped background music
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Adding sound effects
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Adding the mute button
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10. Publishing to the Windows Phone Store
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10. Publishing to the Windows Phone Store
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A look at the Windows Phone Store
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Creating the store account
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Preparing/creating the app
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Creating the app and setting pricing
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Uploading the XAP file, icons, and screenshots for review
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11. Porting, References, and Final Remarks
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11. Porting, References, and Final Remarks
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Running the game on the Windows desktop
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Running the game on the Android simulator using the Eclipse IDE
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Running on the BlackBerry simulator using the Momentics IDE
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Running on an iOS simulator using Xcode
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Additional learning resources
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Final remarks and a thank you note
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Index
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Index

Enabling the touch function

The touch function gives us some basic functions; they can be used to create gestures such as TAP, DOUBLE TAP, and SWIPE, which are used in majority of the handheld games these days. Using these functions, we can also create custom gestures depending on the needs of the game.

We can enable touch on a layer by calling the setTouchEnabled() function on the layer and setting it to true so that the layer starts listening to touches; without this, the gestures won't be recognized.

Cocos2d-x comes with the following four functions to create different control schemes:

  • TouchesBegan(): This function is called whenever a finger touches the screen. Whenever a user touches the screen, a tap is triggered. This is one of the easiest gestures to create. Every touch function takes two parameters: the first is a CCSet and the second is a CCEvent. The CCSet is an array that keeps track of the touch count, such as how many fingers are touching the screen. If there are three fingers...

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