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Developing Mobile Games with Moai SDK

By : Francisco Tufró
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Developing Mobile Games with Moai SDK

By: Francisco Tufró

Overview of this book

<p>Moai SDK is a fast, minimalist, open-source Lua mobile framework for pro game developers. Moai is built around Lua, a common programming language for games, and offers a single open-source platform for both the front-end elements seen by consumers and the back-end infrastructure.<br /><br />Developing Mobile Games with Moai SDK will guide you through the creation of two game prototypes in a step-by-step way, giving you the basic tools you need in order to create your own games.<br /><br />Developing Mobile Games with Moai SDK introduces the basic concepts behind game development, and takes you through the development of a tile-based memotest, and a platform game prototype as well. You'll end up with a good codebase to start writing your own games.</p> <p>You will learn some tricks that come from real life experience while creating a small framework that will allow you to display images, play sounds, grab input, and so on. You'll also learn how to implement physics using Box2D bindings, and everything in Lua, without having to use any compilations. After doing this, we'll take a look at how to deploy your game to iOS and run it on an iPhone.</p> <p><br />With this book, you should be ready to go and create your own game, release it to the Apple Store, and have enough tools to dig deeper into Moai SDK.</p>
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Developing Mobile Games with Moai SDK
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
7
Concentration Gameplay
Index

Getting the latest stable build


Head to http://getmoai.com/sdk/moai-sdk-download.html.

You'll find two download options, the release and the nightly build.

  • Release: This is a stable version of Moai SDK. It includes all you need to start developing with Moai SDK. The current version at the time of this writing is 1.4p0.

  • Nightly builds: Every night (or morning depending on where are you located!) there is an automatic build of the whole Moai SDK project. This build is extremely unstable since it includes all the changes since the last stable release. If you need some feature that has not been included in the latest release, download the nightly build, it should be there.

For each of these versions, there are two possible packages: a .zip and a .tar.gz package, download the one you like the most.