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Monkey Game Development: Beginner's Guide

By : Michael Hartlef
Book Image

Monkey Game Development: Beginner's Guide

By: Michael Hartlef

Overview of this book

Monkey is a programming language and toolset that allows its user to develop modern 2D games easily for mobile and other platforms like iOS, Android, HTML5, FLASH, OSX, Windows and XNA. With Monkey you can create best selling games in a matter of weeks, instead of months.Monkey Game Development Beginner's Guide provides easy-to-follow step by step instructions on how to create eight different 2D games and how to deploy them to various platforms and markets. Learning about the structure of Monkey and how everything works together you will quickly create eight classical games and publish them to the modern app markets. Throughout the book you will learn important game development techniques like collision detection, handling player input with mouse, keyboard or touch events and creating challenging computer AI. The author explains how to emit particle effects, play sound and music files, use sprite sheets, load or save high-score tables and handle different device resolutions. Finally you will learn how to monetize your games so you can generate revenue.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Monkey Game Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Game #2, Rocket Commander
4
Game #3, CometCrusher
5
Game #4, Chain Reaction
6
Game #5, Balls Out!
8
Game #7, Air Dogs 1942
9
Game #8, Treasure Chest

Time for action — modifying the project to display ads in Android


We need to add the MobFox SDK to the Android project now.

  1. 1. With your file explorer, locate the MobFox SDK folder where you have unzipped the JAR file:

  2. 2. Copy the mobfoxsdk.jar file from the MobFox SDK folder.

  3. 3. Paste the copied library into the libs folder of the Monkey build folder. If you copied it correctly, it should look like the following screenshot:

  4. 4. Now, browse within your file explorer to the templates folder in the Monkey build folder. It will look like the following screenshot:

    The two interesting files here are AndroidManifest.xml and res/layout/main.xml. As they are both located inside the templates folder, both are used as a base for these files whenever you rebuild the app from inside Monk. Make the next changes here and not in the regular files.

  5. 5. Next, open the templates/AndroidManifest.xml file with a text editor.

  6. 6. Add two permissions—one for using the Internet and one for reading the phone state. MobFox...