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Marmalade SDK Mobile Game Development Essentials

By : Sean Scaplehorn
Book Image

Marmalade SDK Mobile Game Development Essentials

By: Sean Scaplehorn

Overview of this book

Modern mobile devices are capable of supporting video games of amazing quality but there are so many different devices and platforms how can you support them all? The answer is to use the Marmalade SDK to write your code once and deploy it to all popular mobile platforms at the touch of a button.Marmalade SDK Mobile Game Development Essentials will provide you with everything you need to know to transfer your existing C++ videogame programming knowledge to mobile devices. From graphics and sound to input methods and actual deployment to device, this book covers the lot.Learn how to make use of keys, touch screen and accelerometer inputs for controlling your game.Take the pain out of supporting a varied range of target devices, both across multiple platforms and multiple specifications.Step by step from "Hello World" to a complete game, this book will show how to use the Marmalade SDK to develop games for mobile devices.Learn how to make dazzling 2D and 3D games complete with fully animated characters, music and sound effects that can be deployed to all the leading mobile platforms, whilst ensuring it can run on a wide range of possible devices, from low specification to high end.If you want to join the exciting world of mobile videogames then Learning Mobile Game Development with Marmalade will show you how to do so, fast!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Marmalade SDK Mobile Game Development Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Integrating with social media


Social media sites such as Facebook provide a great way of advertising our games by getting our players to spread the word for us. There are countless examples of games which allow players to post a message to their Facebook wall or Twitter feed to show off their latest high score or boast about achieving a certain target in the game.

In this section we will take a detailed look at how we can implement integration with Facebook and we will also talk briefly about Twitter.

Using Facebook

Marmalade comes with an API called s3eFacebook that wraps up most of the tricky stuff involved in communicating with the Facebook servers. Unfortunately this ease of use does come at a price, which is that it is only supported on iOS and Android.

If Facebook support is required across all platforms, we would need to implement everything from scratch using HTTP requests via the IwHTTP API provided with Marmalade. This is a challenging task, so we'll be using the s3eFacebook API in...