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Monkey Game Development: Beginner's Guide

By : Michael Hartlef
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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

Chapter 8. Game #7, Air Dogs 1942

"Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases."—Baron Manfred von Richthofen

Everyone would like to be a hero. That is the cool thing about games; you can be one inside a game. So, let's create a game about heroes. How about the heroic pilots of the Second World War who risked their lives fighting major duels in their powerful planes high in the skies? In Game #7, called Air Dogs 1942, you can be one of them. Take your plane and shoot the enemy down. Be quicker than your opponent. Don't get hit, or you will be taken down from the sky.

You will see the planes from the top view and can control yours with the keyboard. Floating clouds will cover some space. The places will be wrapped around the screen just like CometCrusher. You will see that the player can use this as a tactic against the computer-controlled...