Cocos2d-x Game Development Essentials

✍ Scribed by Gurung, Arutosh;Hussain, Frahaan;Jones, Gareth

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 137
• Series: Community experience distilled
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Authors; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Setting Up; What is Cocos2d-x?; Setting up the project; Housekeeping; Refactoring HelloWorldScene.h; Refactoring HelloWorldScene.cpp; Refactoring AppDelegate.cpp; Implementing multi-resolution support; Summary; Chapter 2: Adding Scenes; Creating new scenes; Refactoring GameScene.h; Refactoring GameScene.cpp; Manipulating scenes; Code for the Main Menu scene; Code for the Game scene; Code for the Game Over scene; Code for the Pause scene; Summary;This book is designed to help existing developers who are looking to learn this amazing framework, which provides cross-platform development. It is also perfect for developers who already have an existing C++ foundation and would like to learn game development using Cocos2d-x, or those who are coming from another framework.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Copyright
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Setting Up
What is Cocos2d-x?
Setting up the project
Housekeeping
Refactoring HelloWorldScene.h
Refactoring HelloWorldScene.cpp
Refactoring AppDelegate.cpp
Implementing multi-resolution support
Summary
Chapter 2: Adding Scenes
Creating new scenes
Refactoring GameScene.h
Refactoring GameScene.cpp
Manipulating scenes
Code for the Main Menu scene
Code for the Game scene
Code for the Game Over scene
Code for the Pause scene
Summary Chapter 3: Adding Game MenusSetting up the menu
Coding the menus in the Main Menu scene
Coding the menus in the Game scene
Coding the menus in the Pause scene
Coding the menus in the Game Over scene
Summary
Chapter 4: Scene Transitions
The fade transition
Additional transitions
Summary
Chapter 5: The Game Sprites
Adding the Main Menu sprites
Adding the Game Over sprites
Adding the Pause sprites
Adding the Game sprites
Summary
Chapter 6: Implementing Actions
Actions
Moving
Jumping
Bezier actions
Placing
Scaling
Rotation
Tinting
Fading
Skewing
Repeating
Sequencing AnimationSummary
Chapter 7: Moving the Space Pod Using Touch
The general process for setting up touches
Single-touch events
Multi-touch events
Summary
Chapter 8: Collision Detection
Collision detection
Player collision detection
Setting up collision detection
Implementing the collision detection
Summary
Chapter 9: Adding Audio to the Game
Loading and playing sound effects
Adding sound effects
Adding the menu-button-click sound effect
Adding the crash sound effect
Additional sound effect features
Loading and playing background music
Adding background music Additional background music featuresSummary
Chapter 10: Implementing Accelerometer Support
Setting up the accelerometer
Summary
Chapter 11: Problem Solving and What''s Next
Problem solving
Removing debug information
Positioning on different devices
Moving an object on different devices
Trouble generating new projects
Reusing actions
Sequencing actions
Running your application on simulators
Application size
Breakpoints
What''s next?
Index

✦ Subjects

C (Computer program language);Computer animation;Computer games -- Programming;Computer Science;Engineering & Applied Sciences;Electronic books