Learn cocos2d Game Development with iOS 5

by Steffen Itterheim, Andreas Lw

Overview

Create compelling 2D games with Learn cocos2d Game Development with iOS 5. This book shows you how to use the powerful cocos2d game engine to develop games for iPhone and iPad with tilemaps, virtual joypads, Game Center, and more.

It teaches you:

• The process and best practices of mobile game development, including sprite batching, texture atlases, parallax scrolling, touch and accelerometer input.
• How to enhance your games using the Box2D and Chipmunk physics engines and other cocos2d-related tools and libraries.
• How to add UIKit views to cocos2d and how to add cocos2d to UIKit apps.
• The ins and outs of the Kobold2D development environment for cocos2d and its preconfigured libraries, including cocos3d and Lua.

Best of all, Learn cocos2d Game Development with iOS 5 will have you making games right from the very start. It guides you step-by-step through the creation of sample games. These fun examples are modeled after popular App Store games and teach you key concepts of the cocos2d game engine and relevant tools like TexturePacker (texture atlas), PhysicsEditor (physics collision shapes), Particle Designer (particle effects), Glyph Designer (bitmap fonts), and others.

This book offers a rock-solid introduction to creating games made entirely with cocos2d and little or no iOS 5 SDK and OpenGL code. It also details alternative implementations, identifies the best free and commercial tools for cocos2d game development, features coverage of the author's improved cocos2d game engine (Kobold2D), and even helps you enhance your game's marketability on the App Store.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781430238140
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/14/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	532
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Steffen Itterheim is a professional games and tools developer. He has worked for Electronic Arts Phenomic for the past seven years. Be it scripting, programming, or foreign languages, he's done it all. He has extensive experience with game localization including non-western languages and locales, and he also knows the Lua scripting language inside and out. He learned English by watching too much American television. Steffen currently lives in Ingelheim, Germany.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Getting Started
3. Essentials
4. Your First Game
5. Game Building Blocks
6. Sprites In-Depth
7. Scrolling with Joy
8. Shoot 'em Up
9. Particle Effects
10. Working with Tilemaps
11. Isometric Tilemaps
12. Physics Engines
13. Pinball Game
14. Game Center
15. Best Tools for cocos2D Development
16. Kobold2D Fundamentals
17. Out of the Ordinary