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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

The parts of the game... resources


The game Treasure Chest will be made from the following resources:

  • The sprite sheet that includes the images or the different gems, various particle images, a cell image for the map grid, and the gem selector graphic

  • The bitmap font description file and its corresponding bitmap

  • Sounds for an explosion, one for when you miss a matching line and one for when you select a button

Note

Hint: The sound format for Monkey and the HTML5 platform is the OGG sound format. The problem is that some of the popular browsers have problems playing back some sound formats. IE doesn't play WAV and OGG files. Firefox doesn't play MP3 and M4A. So, by using OGG you are covering most browsers today. Use a tool such as Audacity to convert sounds if you need to.

All these files are located inside the corresponding treasurechest.data folder in chapter #9.