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Learning iPhone Game Development with Cocos2D 3.0

By : Kirill Muzykov
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Learning iPhone Game Development with Cocos2D 3.0

By: Kirill Muzykov

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Learning iPhone Game Development with Cocos2D 3.0
Kirill Muzykov
Jun, 2014 | 434 pages
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Learning iPhone Game Development with Cocos2D 3.0
Learning iPhone Game Development with Cocos2D 3.0
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
All About Cocos2D
All About Cocos2D
Game engines
Why Cocos2D?
Games created with Cocos2D
Summary
2
Hello Cocos2D
Hello Cocos2D
Starting with Xcode
Integrating Cocos2D with Xcode
Time for action – downloading and installing Cocos2D
Creating a Hello World project
Time for action – creating a new project from a template
Time for action – running the project on the simulator
Modifying the project
Time for action – creating a new scene
Time for action – displaying the world
Time for action – displaying the welcome label
Reviewing Cocos2D distribution
Time for action – running tests
Summary
3
Cocos2D – Under the Hood
Cocos2D – Under the Hood
Reviewing Cocos2D
Summary
4
Rendering Sprites
Rendering Sprites
Creating the game project
Time for action – creating the Cocohunt Xcode project
Time for action – creating GameScene
Adding sprites to your game
Time for action – adding the background sprite
Time for action – adding the player character
Time for action – fixing z-order
Adding more sprites and moving them
Time for action – adding birds
Time for action – making the bird move
Understanding debug FPS labels
Spritesheets and animation
Time for action – creating a spritesheet
Time for action – modifying the game to use spritesheets
Time for action – animating the birds
Summary
5
Starting the Action
Starting the Action
Making the hunter aim and shoot
Time for action – handling touches
Time for action – aiming at the touch position
Time for action – shooting the arrow
Adding more birds to the GameScene class
Time for action – adding more birds
Time for action – detecting if the arrow hits the bird
Winning, losing, and other states
Time for action – using states for the bird's life cycle
Time for action – animating the shooting and limiting the shooting rate
Time for action – winning or losing the game
Improving the gameplay
Time for action – limiting the aiming range
Time for action – alternative control using a gyroscope
Summary
6
Rendering Text
Rendering Text
The easy way – CCLabelTTF
Time for action – adding labels
Time for action – updating labels
Using bitmap fonts for better performance
Time for action – creating a bitmap font using Glyph Designer
Time for action – adding hit points
Time for action – adding the win and lose labels
Summary
7
Animations and Particle Systems
Animations and Particle Systems
Using frame-based animation
Time for action – exploding coconut
Animating using actions
Time for action – hitting the bird animation
Skeletal animation
Creating particle systems for advanced effects
Time for action – adding the feathers explosion
Time for action – adding a fire to the scene
Time for action – using Particle Designer
Summary
8
Adding Sound Effects and Music
Adding Sound Effects and Music
Creating AudioManager and playing sound effects
Time for action – adding the AudioManager class
Time for action – finding and playing our first sound effect
Time for action – playing the remaining sound effects
Music and background sounds
Time for action – adding background sounds
Time for action – adding music
Enhancing Cocohunt sound effects
Time for action – preloading sound effects
Time for action – playing a sound at position
Summary
9
User Interface and Navigation
User Interface and Navigation
Using buttons
Time for action – adding menu buttons
Time for action – toggling sound and music
Time for action – storing settings in NSUserDefaults
Navigating between scenes
Time for action – pushing AboutScene
Time for action – using more transitions
Time for action – using the scroll view to select levels
Creating modal dialogs and using text input
Time for action – pausing the game with a pause dialog
Time for action – restarting and exiting the game
Time for action – displaying stats when losing and winning
Entering and displaying highscores
Time for action – displaying highscores with CCTableView
Time for action – using the text field
Summary
10
Physics
Physics
Creating a physics world
Time for action – creating a game level with physics
Time for action – adding ground to the scene
Time for action – adding the hunter
Time for action – fixing the hunter movement
Detecting and filtering collisions
Time for action – detecting and ignoring collisions
Time for action – filtering collisions using a collision mask
Time for action – filtering collisions using collision groups
Applying forces and impulses and using joints
Time for action – launching stones
Time for action – adding angry birds
Summary
11
Working with Tile Maps
Working with Tile Maps
Creating tile maps
Time for action – creating a tileset
Time for action – creating a tile map
Time for action – creating the Retina version of the tile map
Using the tile maps
Time for action – creating TilemapScene
Time for action – moving and following the bird
Time for action – using parallax scrolling
Summary
Pop Quiz Answers
Pop Quiz Answers
Chapter 2, Hello Cocos2D
Chapter 3, Cocos2D – Under the Hood
Chapter 4, Rendering Sprites
Chapter 5, Starting the Action
Chapter 6, Rendering Text
Chapter 7, Animations and Particle Systems
Chapter 8, Adding Sound Effects and Music
Chapter 9, User Interface and Navigation
Chapter 10, Physics
Chapter 11, Working with Tile Maps
Index
Index

Time for action – running tests

There are several Xcode projects in the distribution folder and one is particularly interesting to us. It is called cocos2d-tests-ios.xcodeproj. We're going to open this project and run it. Refer to the following steps:

  1. Go ahead and open the cocos2d-tests-ios.xcodeproj project in Xcode.

  2. After the project is loaded, open a list of its targets, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. Select the cocos2d-tests-ios target to run on iPhone Retina (4-inch) using iOS 7.1 (or any other simulator or even your device), as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Now run the project. You should see a list of tests you can run. Select different tests and use arrows in the bottom corners to review different test variations.

What just happened?

We just found a great source of Cocos2D sample code as well as seeing some of Cocos2D in action. You can review all tests and find something interesting. The most important part is that you can straight away review the code of what you see on...

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