Monkey Game Development: Beginner's Guide: Create monetized 2d games deployable to almost any platform with this book and ebook.

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Create eight fun 2d games.

Understand how to structure your code, your data structures and how to set up the control flow of a modern 2D game

Learn how to deploy your games to iOS, Android, XNA (Xbox, Windows Phone 7) and desktop platforms (Windows, OSX)

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Monkey is a programming language and toolset that allows its user to develop modern 2D games easily for mobile and other platforms like iOS, Android, HTML5, FLASH, OSX, Windows and XNA. With Monkey you can create best selling games in a matter of weeks, instead of months.Monkey Game Development Beginner's Guide provides easy-to-follow step by step instructions on how to create eight different 2D games and how to deploy them to various platforms and markets. Learning about the structure of Monkey and how everything works together you will quickly create eight classical games and publish them to the modern app markets. Throughout the book you will learn important game development techniques like collision detection, handling player input with mouse, keyboard or touch events and creating challenging computer AI. The author explains how to emit particle effects, play sound and music files, use sprite sheets, load or save high-score tables and handle different device resolutions. Finally you will learn how to monetize your games so you can generate revenue.

What you will learn

Implement collision detection and optimize it for mobile devices

Handle game controls via touch, keyboard, mouse and accelerometer input

Load and playback sound effects and music

Sign your applications and publish them to different markets

Use 3rd party modules like the fantomEngine game framework to speed up your game development process

Store the data of your different game objects effectively in lists, stacks and classes

Structure your monkey script into separate objects and files so your code is better maintainable

Save and load application states and load level data from text files

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Doug warner Aug 08, 2015

This is actually a very well written book. I found it very useful. this also seem to be the only book I could find on monkey coding, so it also got that going for it.

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TheGreatestAdventurer Sep 25, 2014

Great book for beginner programmers. Concentrates on programming simple games so that the student can see their work. Includes step-by-step programming for 8 games. Chapter 10 discusses how to monetize your games. Over all a great book for would be game and app programmers. Monkey X also has a friendly online community. www.monkey-x.com

P. Robson Mar 30, 2014

This is a really good book - it is well written, the examples are well thought out, there aren't many errors and most of them are minor. The author has a clue how to program properly (an awful lot of people who write these sorts of books don't) ; it encourages good practice - comments, meaningful names, classes, encapsulation and so on pretty much from the start. Very early on for example it emphasises the importance of putting a proper header on your code files.What it isn't is a beginners guide. It's a beginners guide to Monkey, yes, but if you can't program you will struggle very fast. The introduction is very gentle, shows very basic Hello World examples. The first application (Pong) is followable, just if you aren't a coder. It does use classes and so on but they aren't really intrinsic to the application.The second example, Rocket Commander, explodes in complexity. You create three files with an application class subclassed from an App parent. There's a finite state machine. Things are divided into objects, methods and so on. The explanations of these things are quite good but necessarily brief, otherwise the book would be ten times as long. If you know what these things are, or have some idea, you'll be fine but a beginner to programming would be thrown at this point. What is a class ? What is a finite state machine ? How does this all work ?This isn't a criticism of the book per se - as a way of learning how to code in Monkey it seems, so far, to be really good. It's a worthwhile read for those who can already program in Monkey as well, I think, there seems to be lots of good ideas there. But don't buy it if you don't have some idea how to program, know a little bit about objects and classes and so on.So with that caveat, the book is strongly recommended. As is Monkey :)

Snader May 09, 2012

Although I'm am not a beginner at programming for Monkey ([...]), I wanted a book to see some complete programs (simple games) or examples of how these are made from the beginning. This book is great for me. The spare time that I have went mostly in exploring the monkeycoder forums, looking for answers. Now I can easily read this book from beginning to end and I can make everything I want.The author of the book is very active on the monkeycoder forums. So, If you have a question, or something has changed in the newest Monkey versions, he is always willing to help! Great stuff!

Julio cesar Jun 11, 2012

If you want to start as a game developer and get your game in every mobile/not mobile platform with a little effort, this is your book.Here you can get great examples and it's very easy to learn, the language is something like basic, so it's not that hard to code.I don't give it 5 stars because this book teaches you how to use an engine and I would prefer to learn how to make my own, but if this book's objective is to learn make games, then it's achieved.

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