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Cocos2d Game Development Essentials

Cocos2d Game Development Essentials - Second Edition

By : Ben Trengrove
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Cocos2d Game Development Essentials

Cocos2d Game Development Essentials

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By: Ben Trengrove
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Overview of this book

If you are a game developer with experience in Objective-C and are interested in creating games for iOS or Android, this is the book for you. It will help you to quickly get started with Cocos2D and guide you through the process of creating a game, giving you the essential skills and knowledge you need to do so.
Table of Contents (8 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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1. Getting Started with Cocos2d
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1. Getting Started with Cocos2d
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An introduction to Cocos2d
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Installing Cocos2d
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Summary
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2. Nodes, Sprites, and Scenes
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2. Nodes, Sprites, and Scenes
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The building blocks, nodes
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Putting it into practice
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The next step
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The Cocos2d update loop
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Scenes
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3. SpriteBuilder
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3. SpriteBuilder
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Creating a new project
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Creating Flappy Square
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The next step
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4. Animation with SpriteBuilder
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4. Animation with SpriteBuilder
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Adding sprites to SpriteBuilder
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Creating sprite frame animations
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Particle systems
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Keyframe animation in SpriteBuilder
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Animation in code
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5. User Interaction and Interface
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5. User Interaction and Interface
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Detecting touches
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Adding buttons to your scene
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Accepting user input with form elements
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Presenting data in a table with CCTableView
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6. Physics Engines
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6. Physics Engines
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Introducing physics engines
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Adding joints
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Adding a sprite joint
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Dragging an object against a spring joint
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Firing objects from the catapult
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Creating a motor
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Index
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Index

Chapter 6. Physics Engines

These days, most games will use some form of physics in their game play. Be it just to detect collision between objects or to create a more realistic feel to movements within a game. Physics engines can add a great deal of polish to a game without a large amount of effort, and as such it is an important skill to have. Physics takes your game to the next level.

You have already had some exposure to basic physics in the previous chapters. Physics was used to detect collisions in the Flappy Bird-style game and was also used to make your bird move up and down through the scene. There is so much more that can be done with physics and you will learn some of it in this chapter.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Different physics engine techniques
  • Build a simple app that allows you to fire a catapult at a stack of objects
  • See how these objects will fall down

It will be similar to how Angry Birds works.

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