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Cocos2d-X Game Development Blueprints

You're reading from Cocos2d-X Game Development Blueprints Build a plethora of games for various genres using one of the most powerful game engines, Cocos2d-x

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783985265

Length 392 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Objective-C

Tools

Cocos2d-x

Concepts

2D Game Development

Author (1):

Karan Sequeira

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. A Colorful Start FREE CHAPTER

2. How to Fly a Dragon!

3. Not Just a Space Game

4. Back to the Drawing Board

5. Let's Get Physical!

6. Creativity with Textures

7. Old is Gold!

8. Box2D Meets RUBE

9. The Two Towers

10. Cross-platform Building

Index

Preface

Cocos2d-x offers you, as a game developer, an open source engine that enables you to effortlessly build powerful 2D games and publish them on a multitude of popular platforms. In today's fast-paced world, what more could a game developer need?

This book gets you started by introducing the continually evolving HTML5 platform and familiarizes you with the Cocos2d-html5 framework.

This book is written to get you well versed with the many versatile features of Cocos2d-x, by demonstrating the creation of nine different games—from arcade style games to new age physics games and from simple puzzle games to strategic tower defense games! All the while, focusing on gameplay and letting Cocos2d-x do all the heavy lifting for you.

For the finale, you will learn how to build your games for Android and Windows Phone 8, bringing you to a full circle on Cocos2d-x.

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Authors (1)

Sequeira

Sequeira

Karan Sequeira is a budding game developer with 4 years of experience in the mobile game development industry. He started out as a JavaScript programmer, developing HTML5 games, and fell in love with C++ when he moved to Cocos2d-x. He has a handful of games on the iOS and Android app stores and is currently working for an organization in the in-flight entertainment industry. He is extremely passionate about learning new technologies and dreams about building an artificially intelligent super computer that can fall in love.

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