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Sparrow iOS Game Framework Beginner's Guide

By : Stein
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Sparrow iOS Game Framework Beginner's Guide

By: Stein

Overview of this book

An easy-to-follow guide full of descriptive step-by-step procedures on how to develop a game for iOS. With each topic, a new challenge will be tackled to get a deeper knowledge of the Sparrow game framework and gain the skills to develop a complete mobile experience. This book is aimed at those who have always wanted to create their own games for iOS devices. Perhaps you've already dabbled in game development and want to know how to develop games for the Apple App Store, or maybe you have developed Objective-C apps in the past but you are new to game development. In either case, this book will help with descriptive examples and teach you to develop a game throughout its course. Some experience in Objective-C and a basic understanding of object-oriented programming are required.

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Sparrow iOS Game Framework Beginner's Guide
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Time for action – heading
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
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1. Getting Started with Sparrow
1. Getting Started with Sparrow
Understanding the basics of Sparrow
System requirements
Setting up the Apple developer account
Downloading Xcode
Downloading Sparrow
Contents of the Sparrow package
Setting up Sparrow
Time for action – adding Sparrow as a source tree reference
Time for action – using the barebone project as a template
Time for action – installing command-line tools
Time for action – installing CocoaPods
Time for action – using the barebone project as a template
Running the template on the actual device
Time for action – running the template on the actual device
Getting Sparrow documentation files
Time for action – adding the Sparrow API documentation to Xcode
The idea for the game
Code conventions
Summary
2
2. Displaying Our First Objects
2. Displaying Our First Objects
Understanding display objects
Setting the background color
Time for action – changing the background color
Creating our cardboard puppet doll
Time for action – creating a cardboard puppet doll
Explaining macros
Manipulating display objects
Time for action – manipulating display objects
Summary
3
3. Managing Assets and Scenes
3. Managing Assets and Scenes
Working with assets
Managing our assets
Time for action – creating a base class
Creating a texture manager
Time for action – managing our textures
Creating a sound manager
Time for action – implementing a sound manager
Creating a file manager
Time for action – managing remaining file types
Time for action – getting started with basic error handling
Putting it all together
Time for action – creating an asset container class
Time for action – displaying an image
What are scenes?
Time for action – implementing a scene class
Creating a scene director
Time for action – managing our scenes with a scene director
Summary
4
4. The Basics of Our Game
4. The Basics of Our Game
Taking care of cross-device compatibility
Starting with the development of our game
Creating our scene manager setup
Time for action – creating our scene manager setup
Adding images to the battlefield scene
Time for action – adding images to the battlefield scene
Arranging images in the pirate cove scene
Time for action – arranging images in the pirate cove scene
Summary
5
5. Beautifying Our Game
5. Beautifying Our Game
Working with tweens
Time for action – moving the pirate ship
Time for action – updating the movement
Working with sprite sheets
Learning about texture formats
Time for action – loading our first texture atlas
Summary
6
6. Adding Game Logic
6. Adding Game Logic
Extending the asset manager
Time for action – adding texture atlases to the asset manager
Structuring our ships
Time for action – creating a ship class
Extending the ship class
Time for action – adding more functionality to the ship class
Shooting cannonballs
Time for action – allowing the ship to shoot cannonballs
Collision detection
Time for action – letting cannonballs collide with ships
Loading gameplay-relevant data
Time for action – avoiding hardcoded values
Summary
7
7. User Interface
7. User Interface
Displaying the hit points of each ship
Time for action – placing a health bar on top of each ship
Adding buttons to the screen
Time for action – putting buttons on the screen
Time for action – allowing the player to pause and resume
Time for action – conceding the game
Adding dialogs to the screen
Time for action – creating a dialog class
Adding custom events to the dialogs
Time for action – adding our own buttons to our dialog
Drawing text on the screen
Time for action – adding a text field to the dialog
Time for action – using bmGlyph to create a bitmap font
Time for action – using our bitmap font for a text field
Summary
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8. Artificial Intelligence and Game Progression
8. Artificial Intelligence and Game Progression
Artificial intelligence in theory
Letting the enemy ship move and attack
Time for action – getting the enemy ship to move around
Time for action – the enemy should attack the player
Time for action – spicing up the AI with fuzzy values
Adding progression to our game
Time for action – adding a World class
Time for action – updating the scene and dialog classes
Time for action – making the pirate cove playable
Adding win and lose conditions
Time for action – being able to win or lose
Summary
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9. Adding Audio to Our Game
9. Adding Audio to Our Game
Finding music and sound
Adding audio playback
Time for action – getting audio files to play
Time for action – playing music in our scenes
Time for action – sound effects in the pirate cove
Summary
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10. Polishing Our Game
10. Polishing Our Game
Adding additional scenes
Time for action – showing the game over scene
Time for action – having the game over scene show up
Time for action – integrating the main menu into our game
Time for action – creating an intro for our game
Implementing tutorial mechanics
Time for action – adding a tutorial to our intro scene
Loading and saving the current state
Time for action – loading and saving the last played game
Summary
11
11. Integrating Third-party Services
11. Integrating Third-party Services
Getting word out to potential testers
Time for action – integrating Ubertesters
Time for action – creating a build for beta testers
Time for action – deploying an application
Explaining Game Center
Time for action – integrating Game Center authentication
An overview of analytics services
Summary
12
A. Pop Quiz Answers
Chapter 1, Getting Started with Sparrow
Chapter 2, Displaying Our First Objects
Chapter 3, Managing Assets and Scenes
Chapter 4, The Basics of Our Game
Chapter 5, Beautifying Our Game
Chapter 6, Adding Game Logic
Chapter 7, User Interface
Chapter 8, Artificial Intelligence and Game Progression
Chapter 9, Adding Audio to Our Game
Chapter 10, Polishing Our Game
Chapter 11, Integrating Third-party Services
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Afterword
Afterword
14
Index
Index

Chapter 1. Getting Started with Sparrow

Before we dive right into the concept of development, we first need to set up our development environment and set up Sparrow on our system. In this chapter, we will take a short look at what Sparrow actually is, set up Xcode and Sparrow for our needs, create a game template, and set up goals and expectations for the game we are going to develop.

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