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Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook

By : Nathan Burba
Book Image

Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook

By: Nathan Burba

Overview of this book

Cocos2d for iPhone is a robust but simple-to-use 2D game framework for iPhone. It is easy to use, fast, flexible, free, and Appstore approved. More than 2500 AppStore games already use it, including many best-seller games. Do you want to take your cocos2d game development skills to the next level and become more professional in cocos2d game design? Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook will help you reach that next level. You will find over 100 recipes here that explain everything from the drawing of a single sprite to AI pathfinding and advanced networking. Full working examples are emphasized. Starting with the first chapter, Graphics, you will be taken through every major topic of game development. You will find both simple and complex recipes in the book. Each recipe is either a solution to a common problem (playing video files, accelerometer steering) or a cool advanced technique (3D rendering, textured polygons). This cookbook will have you creating professional quality iOS games quickly with its breadth of working example code.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using Lua for dialogue trees


Lua lets the programmer write against a generic interface and worry about the implementation later. This separation between game logic, and the nuts and bolts of presenting the audio/visual elements of the game, is an important part of any game engine. In this recipe, we will use Lua to create a small story-based adventure game.

Getting ready

Please refer to the project RecipeCollection03 for full working code of this recipe.

How to do it...

Execute the following code:

//Static C functions
static int ldtLogic(lua_State * l) {
  int num = [ldtRecipe logic:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:lua_tostring(l,1)]];
  lua_pushnumber(l,num);
  return 1;
}
static int ldtPresentOptions(lua_State * l) {
  [ldtRecipe presentOptions];
  ldtRecipe.sc->YieldPause();
  return (lua_yield(l, 0));
}

@implementation Ch7_LuaDecisionTree

/* Logic callback */
-(int) logic:(NSString*)str {
  int num = 0;

  if([str isEqualToString:@"Put guns down"]){
    gunsDown = YES;
  }else if([str...