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Learning Cocos2d-JS Game Development

You're reading from Learning Cocos2d-JS Game Development Learn to create robust and engaging cross-platform HTML5 games using Cocos2d-JS

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2015

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781784390075

Length 188 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Cocos2d

Concepts

2D Game Development

Author (1):

Emanuele Feronato

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Hello World – A Cross-platform Game FREE CHAPTER

2. Adding Interactivity – The Making of a Concentration Game

3. Moving Sprites Around the Screen – An Endless Runner

4. Learn about Swipes through the making of Sokoban

5. Become a Musical Maestro

6. Controlling the Game with Virtual Pads

7. Adding Physics to Your Games Using the Box2D Engine

8. Adding Physics to Your Games Using the Chipmunk2D Engine

9. Creating Your Own Blockbuster Game – A Complete Match 3 Game

Index

Index

A

assets, Concentration game
- about / Making assets react to clicks and touches
- title, picking as initial attempt / Picking a tile as an initial attempt
assets folder / Preloading and adding images
asteroids, Helicopter game
- adding / Adding asteroids
- versus spaceship collision / Asteroid versus spaceship collision
Audacity
- URL / Choosing sounds

B

background color
- changing / Removing images and changing the background color
backtracking / Backtracking
board
- creating / Creating the board
Box2D
- URL / Before you start
- about / Before you start
Box2D engine
- adding, to project / Adding the Box2D engine to your project
- collisions among bodies, checking / Checking for collisions among bodies
Box2D world
- body, adding / Adding bodies to the world

C

cart
- controlling, with ghost buttons / Controlling the cart with ghost buttons
- controlling, virtual pad used / Controlling...

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Authors (1)

Emanuele Feronato

Emanuele Feronato

Emanuele Feronato has been studying programming languages since the early 1980s, with a particular interest in game development. He has taught online programming for European Social Fund (ESF), and then founded a web development company in Italy. As a game developer, Emanuele developed Flash games sponsored by the biggest game portals and his games have been played more than 90 million times. He now ports most of them on mobile platforms and develops HTML5 games, which have been featured in the most important mobile web markets, such as Amazon. As a writer, he has worked as a technical reviewer for Packt Publishing and published the books Flash Game Development by Example and Box2D for Flash Games. His blog, www.emanueleferonato.com, is one of the most visited blogs about indie game development.

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