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Monkey Game Development: Beginner's Guide

By : Michael Hartlef
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Monkey Game Development: Beginner's Guide

By: Michael Hartlef

Overview of this book

Monkey is a programming language and toolset that allows its user to develop modern 2D games easily for mobile and other platforms like iOS, Android, HTML5, FLASH, OSX, Windows and XNA. With Monkey you can create best selling games in a matter of weeks, instead of months.Monkey Game Development Beginner's Guide provides easy-to-follow step by step instructions on how to create eight different 2D games and how to deploy them to various platforms and markets. Learning about the structure of Monkey and how everything works together you will quickly create eight classical games and publish them to the modern app markets. Throughout the book you will learn important game development techniques like collision detection, handling player input with mouse, keyboard or touch events and creating challenging computer AI. The author explains how to emit particle effects, play sound and music files, use sprite sheets, load or save high-score tables and handle different device resolutions. Finally you will learn how to monetize your games so you can generate revenue.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Monkey Game Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Game #2, Rocket Commander
4
Game #3, CometCrusher
5
Game #4, Chain Reaction
6
Game #5, Balls Out!
8
Game #7, Air Dogs 1942
9
Game #8, Treasure Chest

Summary


Wow! A lot to read and not much to do. Ok, you got some playtime here but also some good information. Let us revise what we have learned so far and looked at in this chapter:

  • We learned where Monkey comes from

  • We found out that Monkey translates your code into the native language of each platform

  • To find out what kind of games Monkey can create, we played a few

  • We studied the key features of the games we played

  • Of course, we installed Monkey on our computer

  • And, most importantly we learned about Monkey's feature set in general

So what's next? Do you agree that we can now dive into the inner caves of Monkey, bring out some fine functionality, and create your first game? Yes? You should answer more loudly! YES! Ok, so let's get rolling with the next chapter!