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Cocos2d Game Development Blueprints

You're reading from   Cocos2d Game Development Blueprints Design, develop, and create your own successful iOS games using the Cocos2d game engine

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783987887
Length 440 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jorge Jord√°n Jorge Jord√°n
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Sprites, Sounds, and Collisions 2. Explosions and UFOs FREE CHAPTER 3. Your First Online Game 4. Beat All Your Enemies Up 5. Scenes at the Highest Level 6. Physics Behavior 7. Jump and Run 8. Defend the Tower Index

3-star challenge – hitting the air


Besides moving the zombie, we will need to allow him to punch his enemies, so we should add a button to the game pad to defend him.

For this purpose, add a new sprite and perform a few modifications in the GamePad and GameScene classes. You can use the button.png image file included in the texture atlas.

The solution

To achieve this challenge, first let's declare a new sprite for the button by adding the following lines in GamePad.h after CCSprite *padSprite;:

    // Declare a sprite to represent the button
    CCSprite *buttonSprite;

There is nothing special here, just a CCSprite declaration. Then we want another CGFloat property to store the new button radius, so add the next line in the properties section:

@property (assign, nonatomic) CGFloat buttonRadius;

As we need to initialize a new sprite, we should modify the initializer method. Replace the initWithRadius method declaration with the following line:

(GamePad *) initWithPadRadius:(CGFloat)padRadius buttonRadius...
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