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    Learning Cocos2d-JS Game Development
    Learning Cocos2d-JS Game Development
    Learning Cocos2d-JS Game Development
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    Learning Cocos2d-JS Game Development

    By Emanuele Feronato

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    About This Book
    • Create HTML5 games running both on desktop and mobile devices, played with both mouse and touch controls
    • Add advanced features such as realistic physics, particle effects, scrolling, tweaking, sound effects, background music, and more to your games
    • Build exciting cross-platform games and build a memory game, an endless runner and a physics-driven game
    Who This Book Is For

    If you are new to game development or have just gotten your teeth into developing games but desire to learn more, then this book is for you. An understanding of the essentials of JavaScript is required.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPackt Publishing
    Release dateJan 12, 2015
    ISBN9781784391546
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      Learning Cocos2d-JS Game Development - Emanuele Feronato

      Table of Contents

      Learning Cocos2d-JS Game Development

      Credits

      Foreword

      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

      Downloading the color images of this book

      Errata

      Piracy

      Questions

      1. Hello World – A Cross-platform Game

      Why should I make cross-platform games?

      What Cocos2d-JS is and how it works

      Requirements to run Cocos2d-JS

      The structure of your Cocos2d-JS project

      Hello Cross-World

      Preloading and adding images

      Removing images and changing the background color

      Summary

      2. Adding Interactivity – The Making of a Concentration Game

      Creating multiple instances of game assets

      Adding a gradient background

      Extending the Sprite class beyond its capabilities

      Making assets react to clicks and touches

      Picking a tile as an initial attempt

      Changing sprite images on the fly

      Showing the tile picture

      Shuffling the tiles and adding the score

      Summary

      3. Moving Sprites Around the Screen – An Endless Runner

      Loading and placing graphic resources

      Adding an endless scrolling background

      Adding the spaceship

      Controlling the spaceship

      Adding asteroids

      Asteroid versus spaceship collision

      Invulnerability

      Preventing the spaceship from flying off the screen

      Adding particles

      Summary

      4. Learn about Swipes through the making of Sokoban

      Loading graphic assets

      Building a level

      Detecting swipes

      Completing the game

      Summary

      5. Become a Musical Maestro

      Choosing sounds

      Preloading sounds

      Creating a sound menu

      Managing music and sound effects

      Summary

      6. Controlling the Game with Virtual Pads

      Overview of virtual pads

      First things first – the game

      Controlling the cart with ghost buttons

      Controlling the cart with a virtual pad

      Controlling the cart just with your finger

      Summary

      7. Adding Physics to Your Games Using the Box2D Engine

      Before you start

      Adding the Box2D engine to your project

      Configuring the physics world

      Adding bodies to the world

      Updating sprite position as the world changes

      Selecting and destroying world bodies

      Checking for collisions among bodies

      Summary

      8. Adding Physics to Your Games Using the Chipmunk2D Engine

      Adding the Chipmunk2D engine to your project

      A physics game, without physics

      Configuring the physics space

      Adding bodies to the space

      Updating Chipmunk2D space and using debug draw

      Selecting and destroying space bodies

      Checking for collisions among bodies

      Using your own graphic assets

      Summary

      9. Creating Your Own Blockbuster Game – A Complete Match 3 Game

      Setting up the game

      Creating the board

      Selecting and deselecting the first globe

      Making globez chains

      Backtracking

      Removing globez

      Making the globez fall down

      Creating new globez

      Bonus – using the drawing API for a visual feedback

      Where to go now

      Protect your code

      Port your game on mobile devices as a native app

      Publishing your game

      Licensing your game

      Staying up-to-date

      Summary

      Index

      Learning Cocos2d-JS Game Development

      Learning Cocos2d-JS Game Development

      Copyright © 2015 Packt Publishing

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews.

      Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented. However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied. Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing, and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book.

      Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals. However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information.

      First published: January 2015

      Production reference: 1070115

      Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.

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      Credits

      Author

      Emanuele Feronato

      Reviewers

      Pradyumna Doddala

      Pavel Goodanets

      Marc Estruch Tena

      Jialong Zhai

      Commissioning Editor

      Ashwin Nair

      Acquisition Editor

      James Jones

      Content Development Editor

      Samantha Gonsalves

      Technical Editor

      Parag Topre

      Copy Editor

      Relin Hedly

      Project Coordinator

      Sanchita Mandal

      Proofreaders

      Simran Bhogal

      Stephen Copestake

      Maria Gould

      Ameesha Green

      Paul Hindle

      Indexer

      Rekha Nair

      Production Coordinator

      Alwin Roy

      Cover Work

      Alwin Roy

      Foreword

      Known by developers all over the world, Cocos2d-x has always endeavored to help developers build and port their games on iOS, Android, and many more native platforms. However, not many developers are aware that the Cocos2d-x team also provides an efficient game engine called Cocos2d-JS to assist users developing cross-native and web platform games with only one code base.

      The year 2014 has certainly been a big year for Cocos2d-JS. It became more widely adopted by big companies all over the world; we've released a major version—3.0—and combined Cocos2d-html5 and Cocos2d-x JSB (JavaScript Binding) into Cocos2d-JS. It supplies your game with cross-browser and cross-platform capabilities accompanied by complete Cocos2d-x features, complete tool chain support, and simple friendly APIs. Furthermore, we reinvented the workflow for all platforms, providing a consistent development experience for whichever platform you want to distribute it to. As a result, the Code once, run everywhere principle is easily achieved and feels natural in Cocos2d-JS. With one single JavaScript code base, you can run your game on all web browsers and native platforms, including Mac OS, Windows, iOS, and Android. This will allow your game to deliver in almost all channels of distribution for better opportunities.

      Today, I'm more than grateful to witness the creation of this extraordinary book. I believe this book will help us by building a bridge to our developers around the world so they can step over the language barrier. I'd love to express my special thanks to dear Feronato, the author of this amazing book. He started programming when I was a little child in diapers and he's still going strong, inspiring thousands of indie developers around the world—that's surely something!

      In this book, Feronato gathered and generously shared with us his profound knowledge in game programming and Cocos2d-JS; he also included a rich collection of examples in each chapter; this, in my opinion, is one of the best ways to help learning, as readers will get a clear sense of how to apply text in the book to real work.

      Here, allow me to express my honestly sincere gratitude to Emanuele Feronato for completing such an amazing book.

      Hope you all enjoy this amazing book and benefit from it.

      Shun Lin

      Cofounder of Cocos2d-x

      Foreword

      As we look forward to 2015 with excitement, I wanted to look back at what we built in 2014 and share with you how important the release of this great book is to our community.

      2014 has been an extraordinary year for Cocos2d-JS. Since we announced Cocos2d-JS v3.0 alpha at our spring developers conference in March, we have put our best efforts into building a great and unique game engine for our community. Our mission is to offer an easy code once, runs everywhere game development experience and lower the development threshold to bring more developers into the game industry.

      Although the version was v3.0, it was the first version of Cocos2d-JS that was inherited from Cocos2d-html5 2.2.3. It has been an entirely new era in Cocos2d's JavaScript development since v3.0; here are the most important things that we have done:

      Combined the Cocos2d-html5 web engine and the native Cocos2d-x JavaScript Bindings engine so that Cocos2d-JS games are equipped naturally with cross-browser and cross-platform abilities.

      Provided a consistent workflow for all platforms—a best ever Code once, runs everywhere experience.

      Made a great step forward in performance for both the web engine and native engine.

      Built a bunch of new features such as Facebook Integration, Assets Manager, Object Pool, JS to Objective-C/JAVA reflection, and so on.

      As a result, we have started to see many games released with Cocos2d-JS, especially on the Web, iOS, and Android. Today, I'm very proud to witness the very first English book on Cocos2d-JS; it really means a lot to us. Thanks to the great work of Emanuele on this book, I believe it will help many developers all around the world learn not only about Cocos2d-JS, but also game development in general. I'm also convinced that many developers, like you, our dear reader, will enter the game industry because of this book and start a great adventure with your code.

      I recommend this book not only because it's the first one, but also because reading this book is a great approach to learning Cocos2d-JS. Emanuele covered all essential parts of Cocos2d-JS in this book; most importantly, he discussed all these topics with rich examples and sample codes. Furthermore, he managed to structure these examples into small games so that readers can progressively see their work turning into real games. I believe this will be a very strong motivation and will bring much fun while learning.

      Again, I want to express my appreciation to Emanuele Feronato and this wonderful book. Hope you enjoy learning Cocos2d-JS with Emanuele and enjoy coding games.

      Huabin LING

      Lead Programmer of Cocos2d-JS

      About the Author

      Emanuele Feronato has been studying programming languages since the early 1980s, with a particular interest in game development. He has taught online programming for European Social Fund (ESF), and then founded a web development company in Italy.

      As a game developer, Emanuele developed Flash games sponsored by the biggest game portals and his games have been played more than 90 million times. He now ports most of them on mobile platforms and develops HTML5 games, which have been featured in the most important mobile web markets, such as Amazon.

      As a writer, he has worked as a technical reviewer for Packt Publishing and published the books Flash Game Development by Example and Box2D for Flash Games.

      His blog, www.emanueleferonato.com, is one of the most visited blogs about indie game development.

      First, I would like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to write this book, especially Richard Harvey, Azharuddin Sheikh, and Samantha Gonsalves for helping me improve the book quality.

      The biggest thank you obviously goes to my blog readers and my Facebook fans for appreciating my work, giving me the will to write more and more. Also, thank you for playing my games. Hope you enjoy playing them as much

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