Cocos2d-x by Example: Beginner's Guide

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Cocos2d-x by Example: Beginner's Guide

By : Roger Engelbert

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Cocos2d-x by Example: Beginner's Guide

By: Roger Engelbert

Overview of this book

Cocos2d-x by Example Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Cocos2d-x by Example Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

Free Chapter

Installing Cocos2d-x

Installing Cocos2d-x

Downloading and installing Cocos2d-x

Time for action – downloading, downloading, downloading

Time for action – installing Cocos2d-x

Hello-x World-x

Time for action – creating an application

Time for action – deploying to Android

Finding more reference material

Time for action – running the test samples

The other tools

You Plus C++ Plus Cocos2d-x

You Plus C++ Plus Cocos2d-x

Cocos2d-x – an introduction

The class interface

Time for action – creating the interface

The class implementation

Time for action – creating the implementation

Instantiating objects and managing memory

What you get with Ref

Your First Game – Air Hockey

Your First Game – Air Hockey

Game configurations

Time for action – creating your game project

Time for action – laying down the rules

Supporting retina displays

Time for action – adding the image files

Time for action – adding retina support

Adding sound effects

Time for action – adding the sound files

Extending Sprite

Time for action – adding GameSprite.cpp

Time for action – implementing GameSprite

The actual game scene

Time for action – coding the GameLayer interface

Time for action – implementing init()

Time for action – handling multitouches

Time for action – adding our main loop

Time for action – updating scores

Time for action – running the game in Android

Fun with Sprites – Sky Defense

Fun with Sprites – Sky Defense

The game – sky defense

Using sprite sheets in Cocos2d-x

Time for action – creating SpriteBatchNode

Bitmap fonts in Cocos2d-x

Time for action – creating bitmap font labels

Time for action – adding the final screen sprites

Time for action – creating our object pools

Actions in a nutshell

Time for action – creating actions with Cocos2d-x

Animating a sprite in Cocos2d-x

Time for action – creating animations

Time to make our game tick!

Time for action – handling touches

Time for action – starting and restarting the game

Time for action – updating the game

Time for action – retrieving objects from the pool

Time for action – running the game in Android

On the Line – Rocket Through

On the Line – Rocket Through

The game – Rocket Through

So what are particles?

Time for action – creating particle systems

Creating the grid

Drawing primitives in Cocos2d-x

Time for action – let's do some drawing!

The rocket sprite

Time for action – updating our rocket sprite

Time for action – handling touches

Time for action – adding the main loop

Time for action – adding our resets and kills

Time for action – running the game in Android

Quick and Easy Sprite – Victorian Rush Hour

Quick and Easy Sprite – Victorian Rush Hour

The game – Victorian Rush Hour

The game settings

Rapid prototyping with Cocos2d-x

Time for action – creating placeholder sprites

The Player object

The Block object

The terrain object

Time for action – coding the player

Time for action – coding the Block object

Time for action – initializing our Terrain class

Time for action – initializing our Blocks object

Time for action – moving and resetting

Platform collision logic

Time for action – adding collision detection

Adding the controls

Time for action – handling touches

Time for action – coding the main loop

Adding the Looks – Victorian Rush Hour

Adding the Looks – Victorian Rush Hour

Victorian Rush Hour – the game

Texturing our buildings with sprites

Time for action – texturing the buildings

Containers within containers

Creating a parallax effect

Time for action – creating a parallax effect

Adding a menu to our game

Time for action – creating Menu and MenuItem

Adding a tutorial to our game

Time for action – adding a tutorial

Time for action – running the game in Android

Getting Physical – Box2D

Getting Physical – Box2D

Building a Box2D project with Cocos2d-x

Time for action – using debug draw in your Box2D project

So what is a physics engine?

Our game – MiniPool

Time for action – adding the touch events

Time for action – adding the main loop

Time for action – creating a timer

Time for action – running the game in Android

On the Level – Eskimo

On the Level – Eskimo

The game – Eskimo

Using scenes in Cocos2d-x

Time for action – creating a scene transition

Time for action – creating transitions with a singleton Layer class

Loading external data from a .plist file

Time for action – creating a .plist file

Loading the level data

Time for action – retrieving data from the .plist file

Saving game data

Time for action – storing the completed levels

Using events in your game

Time for action – using the event dispatcher

Using the accelerometer

Time for action – reading accelerometer data

Reusing b2Bodies

Time for action – changing a b2Body fixture

Time for action – running the game in Android

Introducing Lua!

Introducing Lua!

So what is Lua like?

The game – Stone Age

Time for action – creating or importing a project

Time for action – setting up our screen resolution

Time for action – creating a menu scene

Time for action – creating our game scene

Time for action – building the gems

Time for action – changing the grid with GridController

Time for action – swapping the gems and looking for matches

Time for action – collapsing the grid and repeating

Time for action – animating matches and collapses

Time for action – publishing the game with the Cocos IDE

Vector Calculations with Cocos2d-x

Vector Calculations with Cocos2d-x

What are vectors?

Using ccp helper methods

Pop Quiz Answers

Pop Quiz Answers

Chapter 4, Fun with Sprites – Sky Defense

Chapter 8, Getting Physical – Box2D

Index

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Time for action – downloading, downloading, downloading

We start by downloading the necessary SDKs, NDKs, and general bits and bobs:

Go to http://www.cocos2d-x.org/download and download the latest stable version of Cocos2d-x. For this book, I'll be using version Cocos2d-x-3.4.
Uncompress the files somewhere in your machine you can remember later. I recommend that you add all the files we're going to download now to the same folder.
Go ahead and download the Code IDE as well. We'll be using this in the last chapter in this book.
Then, go to http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/installing-adt.html and download the Eclipse ADT plugin (if you don't have Eclipse or the Android SDK installed, download them at https://eclipse.org/downloads/ and http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html?pkg=tools, respectively).
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If you have any problems installing the ADT plugin, you will find complete instructions at http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/installing-adt.html.
Now, for Apache Ant, go to http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi and look for the links to the compressed files, and download the .zip one.
Lastly, go to https://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html and download the latest version of the NDK for your target system. Follow the installation instructions on this same page on how to extract the files as some systems will not allow these to be self-extractable. A word of warning: you must use a version of the NDK above r8e with Cocos2d-x 3.x.

What just happened?

You have successfully downloaded everything you'll need to set up Cocos2d-x in your machine and start development. If you are using a Mac, you will probably need to change your security settings in System Preferences to allow Eclipse to run. Also, go ahead and open the Android SDK Manager inside Eclipse by going to the Window-Android SDK Manager menu, and install the packages for at least Version 2.3.3 and then anything above that you might wish to target.

Also, make sure you have Python installed in your machine. Inside Terminal or command prompt, just type the word python and hit enter. If you don't have it installed, visit https://www.python.org/ and follow the instructions there.

So by the end of this step you should have Cocos2d-x, CocosIDE, the Android SDK the NDK, and Apache Ant all extracted inside a folder.

Now let's install Cocos2d-x.