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Monkey Game Development: Beginner's Guide

By : Michael Hartlef
Book Image

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

One more thing... comment your code!


Well, we are not at a presentation show of the next big thing from a fruity computer company, but this is very important! As you might have noticed already, we have commented the code in Pongo a lot. Some will say that you only need to add comments to your code when you show it to other people. Other people say that it will also help you to understand your own code, later on.

Imagine finishing a piece of code, and then after several months, having to look at it again and make important changes or fix a nasty bug. Without comments, it could become very difficult to do, even for yourself on your own code. A well-commented source code is much easier to understand.

And remember the two different methods to comment code in Monkey:

  • Single-line comments, such as:

    'This is a single line comment
    
  • And multi-line comments, such as:

    #rem
    This is
    a multi line
    comment!
    #end
    

So, make it a habit to comment your code. One day you will thank yourself for it!