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Monkey Game Development: Beginner's Guide

By : Michael Hartlef
Book Image

Monkey Game Development: Beginner's Guide

By: Michael Hartlef

Overview of this book

Monkey is a programming language and toolset that allows its user to develop modern 2D games easily for mobile and other platforms like iOS, Android, HTML5, FLASH, OSX, Windows and XNA. With Monkey you can create best selling games in a matter of weeks, instead of months.Monkey Game Development Beginner's Guide provides easy-to-follow step by step instructions on how to create eight different 2D games and how to deploy them to various platforms and markets. Learning about the structure of Monkey and how everything works together you will quickly create eight classical games and publish them to the modern app markets. Throughout the book you will learn important game development techniques like collision detection, handling player input with mouse, keyboard or touch events and creating challenging computer AI. The author explains how to emit particle effects, play sound and music files, use sprite sheets, load or save high-score tables and handle different device resolutions. Finally you will learn how to monetize your games so you can generate revenue.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Monkey Game Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Game #2, Rocket Commander
4
Game #3, CometCrusher
5
Game #4, Chain Reaction
6
Game #5, Balls Out!
8
Game #7, Air Dogs 1942
9
Game #8, Treasure Chest

Time for action — setting the distribution code signing profile


To set the distribution profile, you need to set it inside the project info settings.

  1. 1. Double-click on the MonkeyGame entry in the Groups & Files list:

  2. 2. This brings up the Project "MonkeyGame" Info dialog.

  3. 3. Search for code signing identity.

  4. 4. Change the value for Any iOS to your distribution profile by selecting it from the provided list:

If you can't see your profile inside the list, then it wasn't installed properly. Reinstall it and then restart Xcode.

What just happened?

You have set the distribution code signing profile. Xcode is set now, so you can create an app for distribution.

Create a package to submit

Creating a distributable app is very easy.