Cocos2d-x by Example: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Engelbert, Roger

ISBN 10: 1785288857 / ISBN 13: 9781785288852

Published by Packt Publishing (edition 2nd ed.), 2015

About this Item

It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cocos2d-x by Example: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (edition 2nd ed.)
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1785288857
• ISBN 13: 9781785288852
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Unleash your inner creativity and learn how to build great cross-platform 2D games with the popular Cocos2d-x framework

About This Book

• Build multi-device games, letting the framework do all the heavy lifting!
• Spruce up your games with easy-to-apply animations, particle effects, and physics simulation
• Quickly implement and test your own game play ideas, with an eye for optimization and portability

Who This Book Is For

If you are a game enthusiast who would like to develop and publish your own game ideas onto different app stores, this is the book for you. Some knowledge of C++ or Java is helpful but not necessary.

What You Will Learn

• Add time-saving and fun-looking animations to your projects
• Make your games look cooler with particle effects
• Draw lines, circles, and other primitives on the screen
• Create place holder sprites to quickly test your game ideas
• Load external data into your games
• Create projects and deploy them to iOS and Android
• Prepare your game for a variety of screen sizes and resolutions
• Use the CocosIDE and the Lua bindings to develop a game

In Detail

Upgraded and updated, the powerful and popular open source framework Cocos2d-x is better than ever. Through step-by-step tutorials, you'll learn how to take complete advantage of the framework. You'll learn how to add animations and special effects, implement a physics engine, optimize your games, prepare a project for multiple devices, and develop game ideas from the test version to a finished project.

Most importantly, this book provides you with the accumulated knowledge of thousands of game developers, all packed into one easy-to-use and proven framework that will save time and strenuous thinking!

About the Author

Roger Engelbert

Roger Engelbert is a game developer, with over 10 years of experience developing online games. He grew up surrounded by video games and thinks of classic, 8-bit, arcade titles as a form of art. He is the author behind the blog Done With Computers, which is chock-full of tutorials on game development and design. Roger sincerely hopes to soon live in a world where people of all ages will be given the knowledge and opportunity to experience the joy of building their own games.