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Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x

You're reading from Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x Learn to create engaging and spectacular games for Android using Cocos2d-x

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785283833

Length 160 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Cocos2d-x

Concepts

2D Game Development

Author (1):

Raydelto Hernandez

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up Your Development Environment

2. Graphics FREE CHAPTER

3. Understanding Game Physics

4. User Input

5. Handling Text and Fonts

6. Audio

7. Creating Particle Systems

8. Adding Native Java Code

Index

Chapter 1. Setting Up Your Development Environment

In this chapter, we will explain how to download and set up all the required tools to get you started with setting up an environment for building games for the Android platform. Although there are huge similarities between the Mac OS and the Windows development environment, we will cover all the details regarding the installation in both of these operating systems.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

Cocos2d-x overview
Setting up Java
Setting up the Android SDK
Setting up the Android Native Development Kit (NDK)
Setting up Apache Ant
Setting up Python
Setting up Cocos2d-x
Setting up the Eclipse IDE
Template code walk-through

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Authors (1)

Hernandez

Hernandez

Raydelto Hernandez is a software engineer and university professor living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He has developed games for BlackBerry 10, Android, and iOS. He currently teaches topics related to game development at INTEC University. At the age of 22, he started teaching at Las Americas Institute of Technology, where he earned the Professor of the Year award many times. Then he the became director of the software development center. He has also taught at UNAPEC University, UNIBE University, and INTEC University, where he is currently a research professor. He is a BlackBerry Certified Builder, Zend Certified Engineer, Certified Java programmer, CompTIA A+ professional, and Microsoft Technology Associate. Raydelto has posted on YouTube dozens of video tutorials on different programming environments, which are also available on his website at www.raydelto.org. Here, you can also find information about his open source projects. Raydelto has founded two technology companies, Soluciones GBH (in 2005) and AST Technology (in 2008), which develop software for all platforms.

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