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Learn iPhone and iPad cocos2d Game Development

The Leading Framework for Building 2D Graphical and Interactive Applications

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  1. Steffen Itterheim
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  • Phone and i. Pad cocos2D Game Development introduces the cocos2d i. Phone game engine and its related tools.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Introduction

    • Steffen Itterheim
    Pages 1-11

  3. Getting Started

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    Pages 13-37

  4. Essentials

    • Steffen Itterheim
    Pages 39-64

  5. Your First Game

    • Steffen Itterheim
    Pages 65-92

  6. Game Building Blocks

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    Pages 93-116

  7. Sprites In-Depth

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    Pages 117-140

  8. Scrolling with Joy

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    Pages 141-165

  9. Shoot’ em Up

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    Pages 167-188

  10. Particle Effects

    • Steffen Itterheim
    Pages 189-210

  11. Working with Tilemaps

    • Steffen Itterheim
    Pages 211-233

  12. Isometric Tilemaps

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    Pages 235-261

  13. Physics Engines

    • Steffen Itterheim
    Pages 263-286

  14. Pinball Game

    • Steffen Itterheim
    Pages 287-314

  15. Game Center

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    Pages 315-346

  16. Out of the Ordinary

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    Pages 347-364

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 365-397
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About this book

Learn iPhone and iPad cocos2D Game Development provides a rock-solid introduction to the cocos2d iPhone game engine and related tools. It focuses on the process of creating several games made entirely with cocos2d and little-to-no iPhone SDK and OpenGL code. By creating 2-3 sample games over the course of the book, you'll learn key concepts of the cocos2d game engine and relevant tools like Zwoptex (TextureAtlas), ParticleDesigner (Particle Effects), and others.

The example games are modeled after popular App Store games so that they are relevant, recognizable, and immediately fun and inspiring. The games increase in complexity and highlight common recurring cocos2d beginner questions. As you move along, you'll learn about possible stumbling blocks and how to navigate them successfully. As you move from beginning to advanced, you'll encounter general game programming wisdom, tips for performance improvement, as well as pointers to alternative implementations and further reading.

It is assumed that the reader has previous programming knowledge but not necessarily with Objective-C. Related topics such as Xcode, Objective-C, the iPhone SDK, and OpenGL are only discussed where absolutely necessary.

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.

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