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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

The game is...


This time around we will be designing a side scrolling endless runner. The endless runner game style has really taken off in the mobile gaming world, and it is a fun game style to implement using Cocos2d. Basic gameplay will be a simple two-touch control method: touches on the left half of the screen make the hero jump and touches on the right half of the screen will make the hero shoot. The game will scroll continuously, leaving no time for the player to stop and rest. As the game progresses, it will steadily increase the scrolling speed, so it gets harder the longer you play. For all of our graphics (except for the background images), we will be using the Planet-X graphics created by James Macanufo at http://tintanker.com, used here with the creator's permission. You can find his original images at http://tintanker.com/makegameswithus. If you enjoy the graphics, James deserves full credit for this fun and whimsical set.