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Haxe Game Development Essentials

You're reading from   Haxe Game Development Essentials Create games on multiple platforms from a single codebase using Haxe and the HaxeFlixel engine

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785289781
Length 188 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER 2. Building a New Game 3. Dealing with Menus and Screen Flow 4. Delving into Animations and Gameplay 5. Adding Sound 6. Working with Configuration Files 7. Deploying to Multiple Platforms 8. What's Next? Index

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Getting Started, explains setting up the Haxe and HaxeFlixel development environment and doing a quick Hello World example to ensure that everything is working.

Chapter 2, Building a New Game, looks at the fundamentals of the Haxe language and building the core foundation of our game.

Chapter 3, Dealing with Menus and Screen Flow, helps to set up our game's UI, add simple UI animations, and control the flow between screens.

Chapter 4, Delving into Animations and Gameplay, explains adding sprites and scripted animations and adding the bulk of our gameplay functionality.

Chapter 5, Adding Sound, delves into the aspects of adding music and sound effects to make our animations and gameplay truly engaging.

Chapter 6, Working with Configuration Files, talks of using JSON and XML configuration files to make our game expandable and editing the text far easier.

Chapter 7, Deploying to Multiple Platforms, shows how to take our completed game and build it to work on desktop, web, and mobile platforms.

Chapter 8, What's Next?, looks at game features to expand on and at resources to continue learning.

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