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Cocos2d-X Game Development Blueprints

Cocos2d-X Game Development Blueprints

By : Sequeira
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Cocos2d-X Game Development Blueprints

Cocos2d-X Game Development Blueprints

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By: Sequeira
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Overview of this book

If you are a proficient Cocos2d game developer who wants to enhance his or her game development skill set using Cocos2d-x to build different types of games, this book is for you.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. A Colorful Start
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1. A Colorful Start
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An overview of ColourSmash
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Setting up the environment for Cocos2d-html5
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Creating a project in Cocos2d-html5
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Getting acquainted with the project structure
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Creating the first scene – the main menu
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Moving on to the game world
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Summary
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2. How to Fly a Dragon!
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2. How to Fly a Dragon!
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Getting to know sprite sheets
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Creating a lively menu screen
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Creating a fairy tale
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Setting things into motion
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On to the game world
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Saving a high score using LocalStorage
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Let's make some HTML5 noise
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Summary
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3. Not Just a Space Game
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3. Not Just a Space Game
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An overview of SpaceCraze
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Creating a project
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Defining the global variables of the game
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Creating your own Sprite
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On to the game world...
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4. Back to the Drawing Board
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4. Back to the Drawing Board
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An introduction to Inverse Universe
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The CCDrawNode class
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Figuring out the geometry
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Defining the elements of Inverse Universe
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Creating the game
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The update loop
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Adding tilt controls
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Moving the player
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Adding progression and difficulty levels
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5. Let's Get Physical!
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5. Let's Get Physical!
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An overview of Jumpy Clown
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The basics of Box2D
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Creating the world
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Using debug draw
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Stepping into the world
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Creating the GameObject class
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Creating the walls
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Creating the base
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Creating the clown
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Defining the clown's state machine
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Creating the platform
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Adding and removing platforms
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Adding the controls
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Listening for collisions
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The Collectible class
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Creating and reusing collectibles
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The update loop
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6. Creativity with Textures
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6. Creativity with Textures
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An introduction to Penguins Can Fly
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The Terrain class
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The Penguin class
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On to the game world
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7. Old is Gold!
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7. Old is Gold!
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An introduction to Iceman
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What is a tile-based game?
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What is the Tiled Map Editor?
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Tile-based collision detection
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The GameObject class
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The Hero class
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The Enemy class
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Collisions with moving platforms and enemies
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Summary
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8. Box2D Meets RUBE
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8. Box2D Meets RUBE
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An introduction to Angry Fish
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A brief introduction to RUBE
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Creating a level with RUBE
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Generating a world using data exported from RUBE
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Defining the fish
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Creating and spawning the fish
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Creating a mouse joint
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9. The Two Towers
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9. The Two Towers
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Introduction to Pumpkin Defense
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Defining the properties of the tower
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Defining the properties of the enemy
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Defining the XML file for a level
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Designing the level in Tiled
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The Tower class
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The Lightning class
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The Enemy class
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Spawning waves of enemies
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The GestureLayer class
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Spawning the towers
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Fast forwarding the gameplay
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10. Cross-platform Building
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10. Cross-platform Building
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Setting up the environment for Android
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Building Pumpkin Defense on Android
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Creating an Android Virtual Device
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Running Pumpkin Defense on Android
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Setting up the environment for Windows Phone 8
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Building Pumpkin Defense on Windows Phone 8
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What to do next?
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Index
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Index

Chapter 3. Not Just a Space Game

After playing around a bit with Cocos2d-html5, it's finally time to get down and dirty with the good old C++ version of the engine. So, you will be using Cocos2d-x for this chapter and all the subsequent chapters. In this chapter, we will use actions for almost everything we need and get creative with some particle effects. You will also learn how to include progression in a game by creating a few levels.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • How to use the awesome Cocos2d-x project creator tool to create a cross-platform project
  • How to create a custom sprite by extending CCSprite
  • How to use a particle system
  • How to parse an XML file using tinyxml2
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