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PlayStation Mobile Development Cookbook

By : Michael Fleischauer

5 (3)

PlayStation Mobile Development Cookbook

5 (3)

By: Michael Fleischauer

Overview of this book

With the PlayStation¬ÆMobile SDK you can create stunning games for the PlayStation¬ÆVita and PlayStation‚Ñ¢Certified devices (PS Certified devices). It includes everything you need to get started, including an IDE for developing your code and even an emulator to test your creations. "PlayStation¬ÆMobile Development Cookbook"| is an exciting and practical collection of recipes that help you make the most of this exciting new platform. It provides you with everything you need to create complete 2D or 3D games and applications that fully unlock the potential of the SDK. After quickly covering the basics, you'll learn how to utilize input sources like touch, gamepads, and motion controls, and then move on to more advanced content like creating and animating 2D graphics, networking, playing sound effects and music, adding physics, and then finally jumping into the world of 3D.

Preface

Preface

A tour of the PlayStation Mobile SDK

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. Getting Started

1. Getting Started

Introduction

Accessing the PlayStation Mobile portal

Installing the PlayStation Mobile SDK

Creating a simple game loop

Loading, displaying, and translating a textured image

"Hello World" drawing text on an image

Deploying to PlayStation Mobile certified Android devices

Deploying to a PlayStation Vita

Manipulating an image dynamically

Working with the filesystem

Handling system events

2. Controlling Your PlayStation Mobile Device

2. Controlling Your PlayStation Mobile Device

Introduction

Handling the controller's d-pad and buttons

Using the Input2 wrapper class

Using the analog joysticks

Handling touch events

Using the motion sensors

Creating onscreen controls for devices without gamepads

Configuring an Android application to use onscreen controls

3. Graphics with GameEngine2D

3. Graphics with GameEngine2D

Introduction

A game loop, GameEngine2D style

Creating scenes

Adding a sprite to a scene

Creating a sprite sheet

Using a sprite sheet in code

Batching a sprite with SpriteLists

Manipulating a texture's pixels

Creating a 2D particle system

4. Performing Actions with GameEngine2D

4. Performing Actions with GameEngine2D

Introduction

Handling updates with Scheduler

Working with the ActionManager object

Using predefined actions

Transitioning between scenes

Simple collision detection

Playing background music

Playing sound effects

5. Working with Physics2D

5. Working with Physics2D

Introduction

Creating a simple simulation with gravity

Switching between dynamic and kinematic

Creating a (physics!) joint

Applying force and picking a physics scene object

Querying if a collision occurred

Rigid body collision shapes

Building and using an external library

6. Working with GUIs

6. Working with GUIs

Introduction

"Hello World" – HighLevel.UI style

Using the UI library within a GameEngine2D application

Creating and using hierarchies of widgets

Creating a UI visually using UIComposer

Displaying a MessageBox dialog

Handling touch gestures and using UI effects

Handling language localization

7. Into the Third Dimension

7. Into the Third Dimension

Introduction

Creating a simple 3D scene

Displaying a textured 3D object

Implementing a simple camera system

A fragment (pixel) shader in action

A vertex shader in action

Adding lighting to your scene

Using an offscreen frame buffer to take a screenshot

8. Working with the Model Library

8. Working with the Model Library

Introduction

Importing a 3D model for use in PlayStation Mobile

Loading and displaying a 3D model

Using BasicProgram to perform texture and shader effects

Controlling lighting using BasicProgram

Animating a model

Handling multiple animations

Using bones to add a sword to our animated model

9. Finishing Touches

9. Finishing Touches

Introduction

Opening and loading a web browser

Socket-based client and server networking

Accessing (Twitter) data over the network using REST and HttpWebRequest

Copying and pasting using Clipboard

Embedding and retrieving a resource from the application assembly

Configuring your application using PublishingUtility

Creating downloadable content (DLC) for your application

A. Publishing Your Application

Introduction

Index

Index

Accessing (Twitter) data over the network using REST and HttpWebRequest

You will often want to access data from the Internet, for a variety of different reasons. REST is an incredibly popular format that web services use to expose information online. This recipe illustrates how to use the HttpWebRequest class to access one such web service, Twitter.

Getting ready

Open PlayStation Mobile Studio and create a new project. You also need to add references to Sce.PlayStation.HighLevel.UI, System.Xml, and System.Xml.Linq. You can download the full source code as Ch9_Example3.

How to do it...

Open AppMain.cs and replace the code there with the following code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Sce.PlayStation.Core;
using Sce.PlayStation.Core.Graphics;
using Sce.PlayStation.Core.Input;
using Sce.PlayStation.HighLevel.UI;
using System.IO;
using System.Net;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace Ch9_Example3 {
  public class Tweet {
    public string TweetText;
    public...

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