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Creating Games with cocos2d for iPhone 2

By : Paul Nygard
Book Image

Creating Games with cocos2d for iPhone 2

By: Paul Nygard

Overview of this book

Cocos2d for iPhone is a simple (but powerful) 2D framework that makes it easy to create games for the iPhone. There are thousands of games in the App Store already using cocos2d. Game development has never been this approachable and easy to get started. "Creating Games with cocos2d for iPhone 2" takes you through the entire process of designing and building nine complete games for the iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad using cocos2d 2.0. The projects start simply and gradually increase in complexity, building on the lessons learned in previous chapters. Good design practices are emphasized throughout. From a simple match game to an endless runner, you will learn how to build a wide variety of game styles. You will learn how to implement animation, actions, create "artificial randomness", use the Box2D physics engine, create tile maps, and even use Bluetooth to play between two devices. "Creating games with cocos2d for iPhone 2" will take your game building skills to the next level.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Creating Games with cocos2d for iPhone 2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Bike movement


We will now move on to examine how we move the bike. Because the walls are central to the bike movement code, we left the movement until we understood the walls. The movement is broken down into two methods.

Filename: CLBike.m

-(void) move {
    // Move this bike (if local player)
    [self moveForDistance:self.bikeSpeed];
    
    // Remote game
}

This is the easy method. This looks a little silly now, but it will make more sense once we add the "remote game" functionality later. For now, this is just a pass-through to the moveForDistance method, passing the bikeSpeed parameter.

Filename: CLBike.m

-(void)moveForDistance:(float)dist {
    // Update bike position and scales the currentWall
    switch (self.bikeDirection) {
        case kUp:
            [self setPosition:ccp(self.position.x,
                                  self.position.y + 
                                  dist)];
            [self.currentWall setScaleY:
             ABS(self.currentWall.position.y...