Creating games with cocos2d for iPhone 2 : master cocos2d through building nine complete games for the iPhone / Paul Nygard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nygard, Paul.

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, UK : Packt Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Nygard Paul: Paul Nygard has been a computer and technology enthusiast since he was introduced to his first computer at the age of six. He has spent most of his professional life building reporting and analytical systems for a large company. After teaching himself Objective-C in 2010, he has focused most of his attention on iOS programming. Paul created a personal development label, Troll Cave Games (http: //www. trollcavegames. com), to release his mobile gaming efforts. Paul also works as a consultant and developer-for-hire for visionaries in need of a coder. In his leisure time, Paul is passionate about games, books, and music.

Summary:

There are nine complete games with increasing complexity built in this book. The process of game building is well-illustrated with screenshots and explained code. This book is aimed at readers with an understanding of Objective-C and some familiarity with the cocos2d for iPhone 2.0 framework.

Contents:

Intro

Creating Games with cocos2d for iPhone 2

Table of Contents

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

Why Subscribe?

Free Access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Thanks for the Memory Game

The project is...

Let's build a menu

Where is the scene?

Building the playfield

We need sprites

Building a sprite sheet

On to the playfield

Creating the playfield header

Creating the playfield layer

The flow of the game

A stack of tiles

The memory tile class

Loading tiles

Drawing tiles

Adding interactivity

Checking for matches

Scoring and excitement

Animating the score

Adding lives and game over

Bringing it all together

It's quiet...too quiet

Summary

2. Match 3 and Recursive Methods

The project is…

Basic gem interaction

The MAGem header

The MAGem class

Generating gems

Collecting touches

Moving gems

Checking moves

Removing gems

The update method

Predictive logic

Artificial randomness

3. Thumping Moles for Fun

Design approach

Designing the spawn

Portrait mode

Custom TTF fonts

Defining a molehill

Building the mole

Making a molehill

Drawing the ground

Mole spawning

Special moles

Moving moles

The animation cache

Combining actions and animation

Simultaneous actions

Deleting moles

Touching moles

Tying it together

Scoring the mole.

Summary

4. Give a Snake a Snack…

Building a better snake

Anatomy of a snake segment

Dissecting the snake

Building the head

Building the body segments

Moving the snake

Turning the snake

Death of a snake

Building the environment

Outer walls

Inner walls

Building snake food

Collisions and eating

Levels and difficulties

The main loop

Level-up checking

Dead mice

But…how do we control the snake?

5. Brick Breaking Balls with Box2D

Box2D - a primer

Box2D - what is it?

Basic parts of Box2D

On to the game!

World building

On the edge

Having a ball

Setting everything in motion

Collision handling

Losing your ball

Destruction

Paddling around

Paddle fixture

Touching the paddle

Storing player data

Displaying player data

Building bricks

Loading a plist

Picking a pattern

Breaking bricks, for real

Power-ups, good and bad

Picking up power-ups

Paddle deformation

Restoring the paddle

Multiball

Losing lives with multiball

6. Cycles of Light

The game is…

Design review

Let's build a bike

CLBike header

CLBike implementation

Bike rotation

Turning the bike

Building walls

Boundary walls

Bike walls

Bike integration

Bike movement

Control buttons

Touching buttons

Flashing with blocks

Finishing the buttons

Building the background grid

Drawing the grid

The second grid

Moving grids

The glScissor

The playfield

Generating the bikes

Making it move

Crashing bikes

Bluetooth multiplayer

Peer Picker

Session callbacks

Sending messages

Receiving data

Upgrading our bikes

Why send moves?

7. Playing Pool, Old School

Overall design.

Building the table

The Box2D world

Building the rails

Building pockets

Creating the cue stick

Loading the rules

Rules.plist

Rack 'em up

Building the rack

Player HUD

Displaying messages

Building the control base

One-touch control

Two-touch control

The rules engine

Putting balls back

Checking the table

The playfield init method

8. Shoot, Scroll, Shoot Again

Tiled - a primer

Logic layers

Spawn layer

Understanding TMX format

Creating an HD map

Implementing the tilemap

Adding our hero

Focus on the hero

Controlling the hero with SneakyJoystick

Tilt controls

Interpreting the controls

Building the HUD

Scene construction

Tile helper methods

Tile self-identification

Smarter hero walking

Time for bullets

TDBullet class

Building the enemy

Adding the enemies

Everybody gets hit

Game over, man

Smarter enemies

Code not covered here

9. Running and Running and Running...

The game is...

Building the ground

ERTile class

Adding gap tiles

Scrolling the tiles

Parallax background

Our hero

Animation loading

Updating the hero

Touch controls

Shooting bullets

Enemies everywhere

Getting shot with particles

Death of hero

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781283937948

1283937948

9781849519014

1849519013

OCLC:

823719019