Cocos2d-x by Example: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition电子书

Cocos2d-x by Example Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Table of Contents

Cocos2d-x by Example Beginner's Guide Second Edition

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Sections

Time for action – heading

What just happened?

Pop quiz – heading

Have a go hero – heading

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Installing Cocos2d-x

Downloading and installing Cocos2d-x

Time for action – downloading, downloading, downloading

What just happened?

Time for action – installing Cocos2d-x

What just happened?

Hello-x World-x

Time for action – creating an application

What just happened?

Time for action – deploying to Android

What just happened?

The folder structure

The iOS linkage classes

The AppDelegate class

The HelloWorldScene class

Who begets whom?

Finding more reference material

Time for action – running the test samples

What just happened?

The other tools

Summary

2. You Plus C++ Plus Cocos2d-x

Cocos2d-x – an introduction

Containers

The Director and cache classes

The other stuff

Do you know C++?

The class interface

Time for action – creating the interface

What just happened?

The class implementation

Time for action – creating the implementation

What just happened?

Instantiating objects and managing memory

Using static methods

The C++ and Cocos2d-x style

What you get with Ref

Summary

3. Your First Game – Air Hockey

Game configurations

Time for action – creating your game project

What just happened?

Time for action – laying down the rules

What just happened?

Supporting retina displays

Time for action – adding the image files

What just happened?

Time for action – adding retina support

What just happened?

Adding sound effects

Time for action – adding the sound files

What just happened?

Extending Sprite

Time for action – adding GameSprite.cpp

What just happened?

Time for action – implementing GameSprite

What just happened?

Have a go hero

The actual game scene

Time for action – coding the GameLayer interface

What just happened?

Time for action – implementing init()

What just happened?

Time for action – handling multitouches

What just happened?

Time for action – adding our main loop

What just happened?

Time for action – updating scores

What just happened?

Time for action – running the game in Android

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Summary

4. Fun with Sprites – Sky Defense

The game – sky defense

The game settings

The start project

Adding screen support for a universal app

Adding background music

Initializing the game

Using sprite sheets in Cocos2d-x

Batch drawing sprites

Time for action – creating SpriteBatchNode

What just happened?

Bitmap fonts in Cocos2d-x

Time for action – creating bitmap font labels

What just happened?

Time for action – adding the final screen sprites

What just happened?

Time for action – creating our object pools

What just happened?

Actions in a nutshell

Time for action – creating actions with Cocos2d-x

What just happened?

Animating a sprite in Cocos2d-x

Time for action – creating animations

What just happened?

Time to make our game tick!

Time for action – handling touches

What just happened?

Time for action – starting and restarting the game

What just happened?

Time for action – updating the game

What just happened?

Time for action – retrieving objects from the pool

What just happened?

Play the game!

Time for action – running the game in Android

What just happened?

Pop quiz – sprites and actions

Summary

5. On the Line – Rocket Through

The game – Rocket Through

The game settings

Play first, work later

The start project

Screen settings

So what are particles?

Time for action – creating particle systems

What just happened?

Creating the grid

Drawing primitives in Cocos2d-x

Time for action – let's do some drawing!

What just happened?

The rocket sprite

Time for action – updating our rocket sprite

What just happened?

Time for action – handling touches

What just happened?

The game loop

Time for action – adding the main loop

What just happened?

Kill and reset

Time for action – adding our resets and kills

What just happened?

Time for action – running the game in Android

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Summary

6. Quick and Easy Sprite – Victorian Rush Hour

The game – Victorian Rush Hour

The game settings

Rapid prototyping with Cocos2d-x

Time for action – creating placeholder sprites

What just happened?

The Player object

The Block object

The terrain object

Time for action – coding the player

What just happened?

Time for action – coding the Block object

What just happened?

Planning the Terrain class

Building the terrain object

Time for action – initializing our Terrain class

What just happened?

Time for action – initializing our Blocks object

What just happened?

Time for action – moving and resetting

What just happened?

Platform collision logic

Time for action – adding collision detection

What just happened?

Adding the controls

Time for action – handling touches

What just happened?

Time for action – coding the main loop

What just happened?

Summary

7. Adding the Looks – Victorian Rush Hour

Victorian Rush Hour – the game

New sprites

Animations

Texturing our buildings with sprites

Time for action – texturing the buildings

What just happened?

Containers within containers

Creating a parallax effect

Time for action – creating a parallax effect

What just happened?

Adding a menu to our game

Time for action – creating Menu and MenuItem

What just happened?

Adding a tutorial to our game

Time for action – adding a tutorial

What just happened?

Time for action – running the game in Android

What just happened?

Summary

8. Getting Physical – Box2D

Building a Box2D project with Cocos2d-x

Time for action – using debug draw in your Box2D project

What just happened?

So what is a physics engine?

Meeting Box2D

Meeting the world

Running the simulation

No Ref objects in Box2D

Meeting the bodies

Our game – MiniPool

Game settings

Sprite plus b2Body equal to b2Sprite

Creating the pool table

Creating edges

Creating the ball objects

Creating collision filters

Creating the cue

Creating a contact listener

The game controls

Time for action – adding the touch events

What just happened?

The main loop

Time for action – adding the main loop

What just happened?

Adding a timer to our game

Time for action – creating a timer

What just happened?

Time for action – running the game in Android

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Pop quiz

Summary

9. On the Level – Eskimo

The game – Eskimo

The game settings

Organizing the game

Using scenes in Cocos2d-x

Time for action – creating a scene transition

What just happened?

Time for action – creating transitions with a singleton Layer class

What just happened?

Loading external data from a .plist file

Time for action – creating a .plist file

What just happened?

Loading the level data

Time for action – retrieving data from the .plist file

What just happened?

Saving game data

Time for action – storing the completed levels

What just happened?

Using events in your game

Time for action – using the event dispatcher

What just happened?

Using the accelerometer

Time for action – reading accelerometer data

What just happened?

Reusing b2Bodies

Time for action – changing a b2Body fixture

What just happened?

Time for action – running the game in Android

What just happened?

Have a go hero

Summary

10. Introducing Lua!

So what is Lua like?

Debugging in Lua – the knights who say nil

The game – Stone Age

Time for action – creating or importing a project

What just happened?

Time for action – setting up our screen resolution

What just happened?

Time for action – creating a menu scene

What just happened?

Time for action – creating our game scene

What just happened?

Time for action – building the gems

What just happened?

Time for action – changing the grid with GridController

What just happened?

Time for action – swapping the gems and looking for matches

What just happened?

Time for action – collapsing the grid and repeating

What just happened?

Time for action – animating matches and collapses

What just happened?

Time for action – publishing the game with the Cocos IDE

What just happened?

Summary

A. Vector Calculations with Cocos2d-x

What are vectors?

The vector methods

Using ccp helper methods

Rotating the rocket around a point

Using the dot product of vectors

Moving from pixel-based speed to angular-based speed

B. Pop Quiz Answers

Chapter 4, Fun with Sprites – Sky Defense

Pop quiz – sprites and actions

Chapter 8, Getting Physical – Box2D

Pop quiz

Index