Cocos2d-x by example (update): Unleash your inner creativity with the popular Cocos2d-x framework and learn how to build great cross-platform 2D games with this Cocos2dx tutorial

Roger Engelbert

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Paperback Mar 2015 270 pages 1st Edition

Roger Engelbert

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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.

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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.

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Add timesaving and funlooking 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

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iPaul May 29, 2015

Good introduction to Cocos2d-x, you need to an expert C++ programmer though. Also, because of the cocos2d-x history it will help if you at least have an idea of how Objective-C works.

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Hugo Mar 14, 2016

This book showed me that the code doesn't need to be too complicated to make a good and fun game. This version of Cocos2d-x is much more simple, if you never have tried in a game project before, you can be happy, is the right time to use it, this framework is mature, easy to understand, with a ton of resources to learn how it works, a big variety tools to do more in games and publish, but, if you already know how this framework works or if you are an experienced game developer, this book will show you how good and easy can be make really good games, the examples showed in this book are full of functionalities to make great games, you can translate your knowledge easy and fast, this framework support C++, JavaScript and Lua, the main focus on the book is C++ and show how easy is to do cool effects with the games, in the last example he makes a kind of super loved by mobile gamers in Lua. In the first chapters he teaches how to install and the basics of the framework, he also gives examples of tools that he use and are recommended to create spitesheets, particles, bitmap fonts and sound effects. If you already know C++ or another Object Oriented programming language, I think that the examples will show you the framework in a way that you will not be scared by the code, but if you've never used C++ or another Object Oriented programming language... this can be hard, but if you read again the book become easy, the examples showed are clear, you will take it. All the effort will be worth on you first game done, when you play something that you've made is one of the best things, all you need to start is on the book learn by examples mix some techniques and practice more and more, as soon as you can imagine your games will be good to show to your friends and make some money. I liked that the examples are simple, the code is explained block by block, game features that you and your users appreciate are showed and the examples explain how to work with physics Box2D and Chipmunk, particles, primitive draws, touch, collision and much more. This book is totally recommended if you want to learn or if you want to take advantage of the framework to make professional games.

Jaime Sierra May 15, 2015

Hello everyone, I'm Chilean and this book (2nd Edition) I looked forward, I am programmer Cocos2D ObjC is good but is only for iOS, but Cocos2D-x can be programmed for iOS and Android, which is great advantage . I tried for months to learn Cocos2D-x from many web, but it was not clear to me now to the book "Cocos2d-x by Example: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition" is updated and a true guide to set up my computer, and to design in C ++ as well as several aspects that are familiar to cocos2D ObjC. There is an excellent support service from the same publisher, respond quickly and well detailed.In short, excellent book.

Christian S. Jun 10, 2015

The first version of this book was my second book I bought from Packt about 2 years ago. At that time I completed the book in a couple of months. Roger Engelbert did a splendid work in creating the examples and progressively increasing the difficulty to expose different concepts in each chapter. Considering how difficult it is to introduce C++ in an Objective-C and Java environment, they were carefully explained and easy to follow and the code just run as expected.This second edition does not disappoint. Besides updating all the libraries and frameworks to the most current versions (2 years in the mobile world is a lot!), the examples and explanations remain clear, carefully crafted.The mayor difference with the first edition is Chapter 10. It replaced the same chapter in the first edition (Eclipse setup in C++ for crossplatform builds) with the latest CocosIDE and Lua, which did not exist when the first version was released. This chapter feels like a cliffhanger waiting for a next book to show all the potential of Lua and the new CocosIDE.

juan Oct 09, 2020

es muy bueno el libro

Cocos2d-x by example (update): Unleash your inner creativity with the popular Cocos2d-x framework and learn how to build great cross-platform 2D games with this Cocos2dx tutorial

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