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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 — opening a sample script


Opening an existing script can be done through several methods. One is through the toolbar. Follow the given steps:

  1. 1. Click on the Open icon in the toolbar:

    Next, you will see a file dialog where you can select a .Monkey file to be opened.

  2. 2. Navigate, within the dialog, into the bananas folder of Monkey's main directory.

    There, you have subfolders from some authors of sample scripts.

  3. 3. Head to the mak folder, and from within that, to the firepaint folder. Inside, you will find the firepaint.Monkey file.

  4. 4. Select it and click on the Open button in the File dialog. Voila! Monk just opened the selected script:

  5. 5. Of course, there are other ways to open a script. For example, you can double-click on a filename inside the Nav tree view.

What just happened?

You have opened your first Monkey script. Good job! Please note how the GUI has changed. In the top of Monk, you see the file path of your currently visible script. Also, for each script you open or...