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Learning Construct 2

By : Aryadi Subagio
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Learning Construct 2

By: Aryadi Subagio

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Learning Construct 2
Aryadi Subagio
Dec, 2014 | 234 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Construct 2
Learning Construct 2
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Downloading and Understanding Construct 2
Downloading and Understanding Construct 2
About Construct 2
Navigating through Construct 2
Creating game objects
Saving your project
What is an event system?
Using a license
Summary
2
Creating Your First Game Design
Creating Your First Game Design
Defining a game
Drawing the flow of the game
Making game mechanics
More references for game design
Game-design books
Summary
3
Creating Diverse Player Experiences with a Flappy Bird Clone
Creating Diverse Player Experiences with a Flappy Bird Clone
How Flappy Bird works
Making our own Flappy Bird game
Learning random generation
Adding collectibles
Summary
4
Making a Breakout Clone
Making a Breakout Clone
Creating the design
Setting up our layout
Understanding constant variables
Ending a game
Summary
5
Making a Platformer Game
Making a Platformer Game
Preparing the level
Learning about physics
Joining two objects
Types of physics engines in Construct 2
Summary
6
Creating a Space-shooter Game
Creating a Space-shooter Game
Setting the stage
Storing data in Construct 2
Storing data in the player's machine
Summary
7
Making a Battle Tank Game
Making a Battle Tank Game
Setting up the layout
Making enemies smarter
Summary
8
Debugging Your Game
Debugging Your Game
Bugs and their types
Using Construct 2's debugging tool
Different levels of bug importance
Summary
9
Mastering the Best Practices
Mastering the Best Practices
Applying common best practices
Using technical best practices
Using your memory wisely
Summary
10
Publishing Your Game
Publishing Your Game
Exporting to the Web
Publishing to desktop
Publishing to mobile platforms
Summary
Index
Index

Types of physics engines in Construct 2

Construct 2 has three kinds of physics engines it uses to run physics operations:

  • box2dweb: By default, Construct 2 uses the box2dweb version of the physics engine. The box2dweb version is based on the box2d physics engine; a physics engine is commonly used for native games. The box2dweb version is the JavaScript version of it that's intended to be used for web games.

  • box2dweb asm.js: This is the faster version of box2dweb. It uses emscripten (a technology from Mozilla) that takes C and C++ code and produces JavaScript, creating high-performance JavaScript code as a result. This is what's called asm.js, and the browsers that are optimized for asm.js can translate this code to enable fast performance that you'd get from native C and C++ codes. However, all this happens in your browser.

  • CocoonJS native: This is the physics engine optimized for CocoonJS wrapping. If you don't know about it, CocoonJS is a service that helps you wrap or package HTML5 games...

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