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Cocos2d-X Game Development Blueprints

By : Karan Sequeira
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Cocos2d-X Game Development Blueprints

By: Karan Sequeira

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Cocos2d-X Game Development Blueprints
Karan Sequeira
Jul, 2015 | 392 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Cocos2d-x Game Development Blueprints
Cocos2d-x Game Development Blueprints
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
A Colorful Start
A Colorful Start
An overview of ColourSmash
Setting up the environment for Cocos2d-html5
Creating a project in Cocos2d-html5
Getting acquainted with the project structure
Creating the first scene – the main menu
Moving on to the game world
Summary
2
How to Fly a Dragon!
How to Fly a Dragon!
Getting to know sprite sheets
Creating a lively menu screen
Creating a fairy tale
Setting things into motion
On to the game world
Saving a high score using LocalStorage
Let's make some HTML5 noise
Summary
3
Not Just a Space Game
Not Just a Space Game
An overview of SpaceCraze
Creating a project
Defining the global variables of the game
Creating your own Sprite
On to the game world...
Summary
4
Back to the Drawing Board
Back to the Drawing Board
An introduction to Inverse Universe
The CCDrawNode class
Figuring out the geometry
Defining the elements of Inverse Universe
Creating the game
The update loop
Adding tilt controls
Moving the player
Adding progression and difficulty levels
Summary
5
Let's Get Physical!
Let's Get Physical!
An overview of Jumpy Clown
The basics of Box2D
Creating the world
Using debug draw
Stepping into the world
Creating the GameObject class
Creating the walls
Creating the base
Creating the clown
Defining the clown's state machine
Creating the platform
Adding and removing platforms
Adding the controls
Listening for collisions
The Collectible class
Creating and reusing collectibles
The update loop
Summary
6
Creativity with Textures
Creativity with Textures
An introduction to Penguins Can Fly
The Terrain class
The Penguin class
On to the game world
Summary
7
Old is Gold!
Old is Gold!
An introduction to Iceman
What is a tile-based game?
What is the Tiled Map Editor?
Tile-based collision detection
The GameObject class
The Hero class
The Enemy class
Collisions with moving platforms and enemies
Summary
8
Box2D Meets RUBE
Box2D Meets RUBE
An introduction to Angry Fish
A brief introduction to RUBE
Creating a level with RUBE
Generating a world using data exported from RUBE
Defining the fish
Creating and spawning the fish
Creating a mouse joint
Summary
9
The Two Towers
The Two Towers
Introduction to Pumpkin Defense
Defining the properties of the tower
Defining the properties of the enemy
Defining the XML file for a level
Designing the level in Tiled
The Tower class
The Lightning class
The Enemy class
Spawning waves of enemies
The GestureLayer class
Spawning the towers
Fast forwarding the gameplay
Summary
10
Cross-platform Building
Cross-platform Building
Setting up the environment for Android
Building Pumpkin Defense on Android
Creating an Android Virtual Device
Running Pumpkin Defense on Android
Setting up the environment for Windows Phone 8
Building Pumpkin Defense on Windows Phone 8
What to do next?
Summary
Index
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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