Gideros mobile game development / Arturs Sosins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sosins, Arturs.

Series:

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Programming.

Video games.

Mobile computing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Sosins Arturs: Arturs Sosins is a developer living with his wife Anna and son Tomass. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science and even though he is working as a developer full time, he still loves coding and shares his knowledge with others in his spare time. In his last years at the university, he started chasing the dream of creating his own mobile games for fun and personal satisfaction in his spare time. After trying out lots of different cross-platform frameworks for mobile game development, he found Gideros SDK in January 2012 and liked it so much that he decided to stick with it when developing his games. In the summer of 2012, he founded a group of like-minded developers/designers who go under the indie label Jenots. com (http: //jenots. com/). They released Mashballs (http: //jenots. com/mashballs), their first game, in September 2012 and are currently working on a couple of bigger game projects. As there was a lack of learning materials and tutorials for Gideros and writing was one of the his favorite hobbies, he started creating different tutorials on how to accomplish simple things in Gideros. This led him to create his new blog http: //appcodingeasy. com. Due to popularity of his tutorials and the support he provided on the Gideros community forum, he became the most active community member. In February 2013, the Gideros team offered him the position in the Gideros developers' team, where he has been working since then, while continuing to work on games in his spare time.

Summary:

With Gideros you can develop games for both iOS and Android faster and more simply. This book shows you how with a real-life project you undertake yourself. All that’s required is a little familiarity with Lua. Develop engaging iOS and Android mobile games quickly and efficiently Build your very first game following practical and easy to understand instructions Full of code examples and descriptions to help you master the basics of mobile game development In Detail Have you ever had an interesting idea for a mobile game? Have you ever wanted to jump on the mobile app bandwagon? Developing a mobile game has never been so fun and easy, and with the vast amount of smartphone users, it may also become a profitable thing to do. Gideros is a Lua-based framework that facilitates effortless native iOS and Android application development along with hardware acceleration. Gideros also comes with a built-in box2D physics engine and extended memory management features to make mobile game development a breeze. Gideros Mobile Game Development shows you how to develop an original and exciting game in Gideros, helping you create your very first project and guiding you through the configuration of settings and assets to help you target devices with different resolutions. This book teaches you everything you need to know about Gideros, from installing Gideros on your operating system to creating and efficiently managing your Gideros projects and creating your very first game, all with the help of well explained examples. You will learn how to quickly create game prototypes in Gideros, how to test and set up projects to automatically target devices with different resolutions, and how to polish your prototype with animations, sounds, tweens, and even physics to create your very first cross-platform game. By the end of this book, you will have learned everything you need to create visually stunning physics and exciting cross-platform games using Gideros.

Contents:

Intro

Gideros Mobile Game Development

Table of Contents

Credits

Foreword

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

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Setting Up the Environment

About Gideros

Installing Gideros

Requirements

Installing Gideros on Windows

Installing Gideros on Mac OS X

Installing Gideros on Linux

Creating your first project

Trying out Gideros Studio

Using the Gideros desktop player

Displaying graphical objects in Gideros Player

Displaying text

Displaying images

Drawing shapes

Using the Sprite class for groups and layers

Managing project settings

Automatic scaling

Automatic image resolution

Input settings

iOS-specific settings

Installing the device player

Installing the Android player

Installing the iOS player

Running the project on a device player

Exporting Gideros project

Summary

2. Managing Scenes and Gideros OOP

Setting up our project

Handling scaled graphics with AutoScaling

Handling whitespaces

Ignoring automatic scaling for positioning

Creating scenes

Gideros OOP

Creating our first class

Gideros scene manager

Creating a global configuration file

Creating the start scene

Creating the about scene

Creating the options scene

Creating the settings class

3. Implementing Game Logic

Implementing the main game scene

Using texture packs

Packing our textures

Using texture packs inside project

Using physics in Gideros.

Creating physical bodies

Running the world

Setting up world boundaries

Interaction with physical bodies

Handling Box2D collisions

Managing packs and levels

Defining packs

Creating LevelSelectScene

Generating a grid of levels

Switching between packs

Creating the GameManager class

Implementing unlocked levels logic

Reading level definitions

Completing the level

4. Polishing the Game

Adding sounds

Adding background music

Adding sound effects

Adding high scores

Retrieving high scores

Updating high score on the screen

Creating animated game elements

Frame animations using MovieClip

Tweening elements with GTween

Improving gameplay

Changing level packs by using the swipe gesture

Starting with MouseDown

Continue with MouseMove

Ending with MouseUp

Adding event listeners

Modifying code for selecting levels

Implementing Mashballs magnet

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 8, 2013).

ISBN:

9781849696715

1849696713

OCLC:

869743108