About the Reviewers
by Siddharth Shekar
Cocos2d Cross-Platform Game Development Cookbook - Second Edition
- Cocos2d Cross-Platform Game Development Cookbook Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Cocos2d Cross-Platform Game Development Cookbook Second Edition
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Sprites and Animations
- 2. Scenes and Menus
- 3. Gestures, Touches, and the Accelerometer
- Introduction
- Understanding swipe
- Implementing tap
- Adding LongPress
- Adding pinch/zoom controls
- Adding rotation objects
- Adding panning
- Including touches
- Creating objects with touchBegan
- Moving objects with touchMoved
- Customizing touches in the sprite class
- Adding an accelerometer
- Adding a directional pad
- 4. Physics
- Introduction
- Adding physics to a game scene
- Adding physics objects
- Looking at different body types
- Adding sprite texture to physics objects
- Creating composite bodies
- Creating complex shapes
- Changing body properties
- Applying impulse with the touch control
- Applying force with the accelerometer
- Collision detection
- Adding revolute joints
- Adding motor joints
- Adding a game loop and scoring
- 5. Audio
- 6. AI and A* Pathfinding
- 7. Data Storage and Retrieval
- 8. Effects
- 9. Game Tools
- 10. Swift/SpriteBuilder Basics
- Introduction
- Implementing the Swift syntax
- Implementing Cocos2d Swift
- SpriteBuilder basics
- 11. Porting to Android
- Index
Hsiao Wei Chen makes games for mobile devices using Unity, Cocos2d, and native code. She has also participated in a game jams, in which she attempted to create a game in 48 to 72 hours. Hsiao enjoys writing, and has taken part in NaNoWriMo, in which she attempted to write a 50,000-word novel in a month. She is also a blogger and writes tutorials and book reviews.
I would like to thank my two sisters and my parents who support me in everything that I choose to do.
Tim Park started programming in BASIC on VIC-20, moved on to C on Amiga, and then to other languages and frameworks that let him get things done. He started programming professionally on accounting systems, then on videogame consoles, and currently works on mobile and web development at Arctic Empire.
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