| Description |
1 online resource (266 pages) : color illustrations |
| Series |
Community Experience Distilled |
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Community experience distilled.
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| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Getting Started; Downloading and installing Visual Studio; Downloading and installing the Windows Phone SDK; Downloading and installing Python; Downloading Cocos2d-x; Creating a new project; Coordinate system; Basic classes of Cocos2d-x; Project breakup; Running the project on multiple platforms; Running the project on Windows (desktop mode); Running the project on Windows RT (tile mode); Running the project on the iPhone simulator using Xcode |
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Running the project on an Android simulator using EclipseSummary; Chapter 2: Displaying the Hero and Controls; First things first; Displaying the background image; Character movement; Enabling the touch function; Enabling multitouch; Movement with touches; Movement with the accelerometer; Custom controls; Summary; Chapter 3: Enemies and Controls; Creating the enemy class; Adding the enemy movement; Adding the gameplay layer; Creating the projectile class; Adding hero controls; Summary; Chapter 4: Collision Detection and Scoring; Theory of collision detection; Circular collision |
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Bounding box collisionPixel perfect collision; Other collision detection methods; Coding collision detection; Keeping track of the score and the game over condition; Storing high score; Summary; Chapter 5: HUD, Parallax Background, and the Pause Button; Texts and fonts; Literra; Bitmap font generator; GlyphDesigner; Creating the HUD layer and displaying as well as updating scores; Creating the pause button and showing the pause screen; Implementing pause and resuming the game; Adding the scrolling layer class; Creating the parallax scrolling layer; Summary; Chapter 6: Animations |
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Animation basicsSpritesheet animation; Skeletal animation; TexturePacker; The display section; The Geometry section; The Layout section; Advanced features; Creating a spritesheet for the player; Coding the player animation; Creating and coding enemy animation; Creating the skeletal animation; Coding the player walk cycle; Summary; Chapter 7: Particle Systems; What is a particle system; Cocos2d-x''s inbuilt particle system; Adding the gun muzzle particle system; Particle designing; Particle Designer; Emitter Configuration; Particle Configuration; Color Settings; Texture Settings; Particle2dx |
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MotionColor Template; InOut; Background; Adding an explosion particle system; Adding particles for jetpack when a player moves upwards; Creating your own particle system; Summary; Chapter 8: Adding Main and Option Menu Scenes; Creating the main menu scene; Loading the menu scene at start of the app; Creating the Options scene; Changing the name of the app; Summary; Chapter 9: Adding Sounds and Effects; Audio in Cocos2d-x; Adding looped background music; Adding sound effects; Adding the mute button; Summary; Chapter 10: Publishing to the Windows Phone Store |
| Summary |
If you are a hobbyist, novice game developer, or programmer who wants to learn about developing games/apps using Cocos2d-x, this book is ideal for you |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 29, 2014) |
| Subject |
Video games -- Programming.
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Video games -- Development
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Video games -- Development
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Computer animation.
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computer animation.
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COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- Tools.
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COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- General.
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Video games -- Programming
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781783988273 |
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1783988274 |
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1783988266 |
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9781783988266 |
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1322153019 |
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9781322153018 |
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