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Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x

By : Raydelto Hernandez
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Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x

By: Raydelto Hernandez

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Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x
Raydelto Hernandez
Mar, 2015 | 160 pages
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Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x
Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x
Credits
Credits
Foreword
Foreword
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
Setting Up Your Development Environment
Setting Up Your Development Environment
Cocos2d-x overview
Setting up Java
Setting up the Android SDK
Setting up the Android Native Development Kit
Setting up Apache Ant
Setting up Python
Setting up Cocos2d-x
Template code walk-through
Summary
2
Graphics
Graphics
Creating scenes
Pausing the game
Understanding nodes
Understanding sprites
Understanding actions
Animating sprites
Game menus
Putting everything together
Summary
3
Understanding Game Physics
Understanding Game Physics
Setting up the physics world
Collision detection
Handling gravity
Putting everything together
Summary
4
User Input
User Input
Understanding the Event Dispatcher mechanism
Handling the touch event
Handling accelerometer events
Keeping the screen alive
Handling the Android back key pressed event
Putting everything together
Summary
5
Handling Text and Fonts
Handling Text and Fonts
Creating TrueType font labels
Creating system fonts
Creating bitmap font labels
Putting everything together
Summary
6
Audio
Audio
Playing background music and sound effects
Modifying audio properties
The new audio engine
Adding a mute button to our game
Putting everything together
Summary
7
Creating Particle Systems
Creating Particle Systems
Creating collections of the Cocos2d-x objects
Adding particle systems to our game
Configuring the particle systems
Creating customized particle systems
Putting everything together
Summary
8
Adding Native Java Code
Adding Native Java Code
Understanding the Cocos2d-x structure for the Android platform
Understanding the JNI capabilities
Adding Java code to the Cocos2d-x game
Adding ads to the game by inserting Java code
Configuring the environment
Modifying the Android manifest
Putting everything together
Summary
Index
Index

About the Reviewers

Alejandro Duarte has been coding since 1994, when he was 13 years old, using languages such as Basic, C, C++, Assembler, C#, PHP, Java, Groovy, and Lua. He focuses mainly on Java technologies for enterprise applications, but always keeps an eye on the video game development industry and technologies. He has collaborated with several open source and closed source projects based on Cocos2d-x, Processing, Irrlicht Engine, and the Allegro library.

Alejandro has worked for companies in Colombia and the United Kingdom as a software developer and consultant. He is the author of Vaadin 7 UI Design by Example: Beginner's Guide, and a technical reviewer for Cocos2d-x by Example Beginner's Guide. He maintains several open source projects hosted on GitHub (github.com/alejandro-du).

You can contact him at or through his personal blog (www.alejandrodu.com). If you are feeling social, you can follow him on Twitter at @alejandro_du.

Emanuele Feronato has been studying programming languages since the early 1980s, with a particular interest in game development. He taught online programming for the European Social Fund (ESF), and then founded a web development company in Italy.

As a game developer, he has developed Flash games sponsored by the biggest game portals, and his games have been played more than 90 million times. He is currently porting most of them on mobile platforms as well as developing HTML5 games that have been featured in the most prominent mobile web markets, such as Amazon.

Emanuele has worked as a technical reviewer for Packt Publishing and published the books Flash Game Development by Example, Box2D for Flash Games, and Learning Cocos2d-JS Game Development.

His blog, www.emanueleferonato.com, is one of the most visited blogs about indie game development.

First, I would like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to review this book, especially Richard Harvey, Azharuddin Sheikh, and Samantha Golsalves for helping me to improve this book's quality.

The biggest thank you obviously goes to my blog readers and my Facebook fans for appreciating my work and giving me the will to write more and more. Also, thank you for playing my games, and I hope you will enjoy playing them as much as I enjoyed developing them.

Finally, a special thank you goes to my wife, Kirenia, who patiently waited for me late at nights while I was reviewing the book.

Akihiro Matsuura has 3 years of experience as a Cocos2d-x developer. He founded his own company called Syuhari, 5 years ago. He also has more than 20 years of experience as a programmer. He has written three technical books in Japanese.

I wish to thank the author and Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to review this book.

Luma has several years of experience on iOS and Android, and he focuses on game development for mobile platforms. He is the creator of WiEngine, Cocos2dx-better, and Cocos2dx-classical. His GitHub page can be found at https://github.com/stubma.

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