Overview
- Aims to be a first book on cocos2d 2.0
- Continues strong selling performance of previous books on cocos2d by Steffen Itterheim.
- iOS, cocos2d and games development are hot tech and book market areas.
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Create compelling 2D games with Learn cocos2d 2: Game Development with iOS. This book shows you how to use the powerful new cocos2d, version 2 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 pre-configured libraries, including cocos3d and Lua.
Best of all, this book 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 new cocos2d 2 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 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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Learn cocos2d 2
Book Subtitle: Game Development for iOS
Authors: Steffen Itterheim, Andreas Löw
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4417-2
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Steffen Itterheim and Andreas Lw 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-4416-5Published: 21 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-4417-2Published: 10 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 544
Topics: Apple and iOS, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems