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Cocos2d Cross-Platform Game Development Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

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Cocos2d Cross-Platform Game Development Cookbook - Second Edition - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Cocos2d is the world’s leading game development framework for developing iOS games. With the introduction of Swift and Spritebuilder, it has become easier than ever to develop the games of your dreams without much effort. With Cocos2d, you can also deploy the game on Android, thereby maximizing profit and reducing development and porting costs. The book starts off with a detailed look at how to implement sprites and animations into your game to make it livelier. You will then learn to add scenes to the game such as the gameplay scene and options scene and create menus and buttons in these scenes, as well as creating transitions between them. From there on, you will get an understanding of how to program user interactions such as tapping, holding, and swiping. You’ll then add accelerometer inputs and physics to the scene, and make objects respond back to the inputs. A game is practically incomplete without audio being added, so this will be covered next. The next section will include ways to add Artificial Intelligence to enemies in the game, allowing them to patrol, chase, and shoot in a projectile manner. You will then learn to use NSUserDefault to save and load game progress, and create and access files using JSON, Plist, and XML files for custom storage and retrieval of data. Then you will learn to add dynamic lighting to your game and will use industry-wide tools such as Texture Packer, Glyph Designer, Physics Editor, Particle Designer, and Sprite Illuminator to create more visually appealing and performance-optimized games. Towards the end of the book, we dive into Apple’s latest programming language—Swift, highlighting the major differences between Objective C and Swift. The book culminates with taking your existing game developed for iOS and porting it to Android, showing you how to install the Android Xcode plugin as well.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Cocos2d Cross-Platform Game Development Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chasing enemy behavior


In the Projectile shooting enemy section, we saw that when the projectile had the very basic behavior of just getting shot at the player, if the player moves away from the point of impact, the projectile doesn't do anything. In the chasing enemy AI, we will see how even if the player moves away, if the player is within radius of the projectile, the projectile will chase the player until there is a sufficient distance between the player and the projectile.

Getting ready

We will still use the same ShooterBase class. Instead of launching the ProjectileAI object, we will create a new class called ChaserAI and launch it instead. So, no major changes have to be made to the ShooterBase class, but we need to create a new ChaserAI class that will manage the behavior of our chaser enemy.

The chaser enemy is a red rocket, so get the image from the resources folder and place it in the Published-iOS folder in the resources folder.

How to do it…

The interface file for the ChaserAI is...