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Haxe Game Development Essentials

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Haxe Game Development Essentials

Overview of this book

Haxe is a powerful and high-level multi-platform language that's incredibly easy to learn. Used by thousands of developers and many high-profile companies, Haxe is quickly emerging as a forerunner in the area of cross-platform programming. OpenFL builds on top of Haxe to make developing for multiple platforms quick and painless. HaxeFlixel provides you with the tools you need to build amazing 2D games easier than ever before. Cross-platform development has been supercharged using the Haxe programming language, making it increasingly easy and hassle-free to develop multi-platform games. If you've programmed games before and want to learn out how to deliver games across multiple platforms, or develop games faster, then Haxe Game Development Essentials is the book for you. It starts by showing you how to set up your development environment, then running you through some Haxe language fundamentals, and finally taking you through the process of programming a game from start to finish. You will learn how to create a side scrolling shooter game using HaxeFlixel. Next you will learn to enhance the game with new gameplay features, user interfaces, animations, sound, and configuration files to make your game expandable. Once your game is built and ready, you will learn how to deploy it to web, Android, iOS, and desktop systems. By the end of this book, you will be confident about creating multi-platform games using Haxe, OpenFL, and HaxeFlixel in a faster and easier way.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Haxe Game Development Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Making the player character


Finally, we will create our player character and the namesake of our game, the Star Walrus! This walrus will also have a two-frame animation loop like the enemies.

Since this is a game that will be playable on both desktop and touch-based platforms, we'll be keeping the walrus controls nice and simple. The walrus will automatically shoot while the player moves it around the screen using the keyboard, mouse, or touch input.

Creating the class

First, let's create the class. In the source folder, make a new class named Player that extends FlxGroup:

package;

import flixel.group.FlxGroup;

class Player extends FlxGroup
{
  public function new() 
  {
    super();
  }
}

Adding imports

Next, let's add the imports:

import flixel.FlxSprite;
import AssetPaths;
import flixel.group.FlxGroup;

import flixel.FlxG;
import flixel.tweens.FlxTween;
import flixel.tweens.FlxEase;

import flixel.util.loaders.TexturePackerData;
import flixel.group.FlxTypedGroup;
import flixel.util.FlxTimer...