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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


In this chapter we have covered the following:

  • How to give a computer-controlled object some kind of a brain. We have used a simple heading logic to let the enemy plane turn in the closest direction where the player plane is.

  • Use of particles to simulate smoke that is emitted from a plane that was previously hit by a bullet. Also, showing an explosion when a plane was destroyed.

  • Letting clouds float over the screen and wrap them at the edges of the visible area to the opposite site.

  • How to create a GLFW app.

In the next chapter, we will create our last game together, Treasure Chest. Hopefully, you have enjoyed this chapter and will keep on reading till the end of the book.