Cocos2D-X 3.0 Game Development Programming for iOS and Android

Cocos2d-x is an open source cross platform game engine designed to build applications for different platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry and many others. Developers can use C++, JavaScript and Lua to build their applications. The engine has proved to work; at least 25% of the mobile games developed in the world are powered by Cocos2d-x. The main advantage of this engine is that a single source code can be ported to several platforms with little effort.

The goal of this book is to teach you how to build a game using Cocos2d-x. You will learn progressively how to use the different features provided by the engine to put them together in a single application. Using Cocos2d-x by itself is not enough to develop a game; so additional information about the ecosystem that surrounds it is included.

Book Content

1 Introduction to Cocos2d-x

• What is Cocos2d-x
• What is new on Cocos2d-x version 3.0
• The Book Game - Tap a Plane

2 Getting Started with Cocos2d-x

• Installing Cocos2d-x
• Configuration for iOS and Mac OS X
• Configuration for Android on Mac OS X
• Configuration for Microsoft Windows 7
• Configuration for Android on Microsoft Windows 7
• Creating a new project
• Summary

3 Toolset and Support

• Graphics Tools
• Sprite Sheets and Physics
• Audio
• Layout
• Animation
• Utilities
• CocoStudio
• Summary

4 Sprites and Effects

• Working with Sprites
• Including Actions
• Using Animations
• Summary

5 Multiple Layers and Multiple Scenes

• Game Architecture in Cocos2d-x
• Working with Multiple Layers
• Working with Multiple Scenes
• Summary

6 Game Loop and Events

• Game Scheduler
• Touch Events
• Summary

7 Physics Engines and Cocos2d-x

• Introduction to Box2D
• Configuring Box2d on Cocos2d-x 3.0
• Merging Physics with Sprites
• Moving a Physic Body
• Collision Detection
• Summary

8 Game Layout

• Building the Game Layout
• Scrolling Across a Map
• Adding Parallax Effect
• Summary

9 Sound Effects and Music

• Introduction to SimpleAudioEngine
• Adding Sound Effects and Music
• Controlling Volume
• Summary

10 Saving Game Data

• Using Configuration Files
• Using SQLite3
• Summary

Book Resources

This book provides a game example to give a complete explanation about how Cocos2d-x works. The game is called Tap a Plane. This is side-scrolling game about a plane attempting to dodge a row of pikes throughout a cave.

All resources are provided here.