Cocos2d for iPhone 1 Game Development Cookbook

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Graphics
• Introduction
• Drawing sprites
• Coloring sprites
• Animating sprites
• Drawing OpenGL primitives
• Playing video files
• Grid, particle, and motion streak effects
• Using Retina Display mode
• 1D and 2D Ease Actions
• Rendering and texturing 3D shapes
• Rendering a texture-filled polygon
• Animating a texture-filled polygon
• Swapping palettes using layers
• Swapping palettes using CCTexture2DMutable
• Using AWTextureFilter for blur and font shadows
• Taking and using screenshots
• Using CCParallaxNode
• Lighting using glColorMask

• Chapter 2: User Input
• Introduction
• Tap, hold, and drag input
• Depth testing input
• Creating buttons
• Creating a directional pad
• Creating an analog stick
• Using the accelerometer for steering
• Using the accelerometer for 3D rotation
• Pinch zooming
• Performing gestures

• Chapter 3: Files and Data
• Introduction
• Reading PLIST data files
• Reading JSON data files
• Reading XML data files
• Saving simple data using NSUserDefaults
• Archiving objects into archive files
• Mutating nested metadata
• Saving data into a PLIST file
• Saving data into an SQLite database
• Saving data using Core Data

• Chapter 4: Physics
• Introduction
• Box2D setup and debug drawing
• Creating collision response routines
• Using different shapes
• Dragging and collision filtering
• Manipulating physical properties
• Applying impulses
• Applying forces
• Asynchronous body destruction
• Using joints
• Creating a vehicle
• Character movement
• Simulating bullets
• Simulating and rendering a rope
• Creating a top-down isometric game engine

• Chapter 5: Scenes and Menus
• Introduction
• Switching scenes
• Transitioning between scenes
• Using CCLayerMultiplex
• Using CCLabel
• Using CCMenu
• Creating shadowed menu labels
• UIKit alert dialogs
• Wrapping UIKit
• Creating draggable menu windows
• Creating a horizontal scrollable menu
• Creating a vertical sliding menu grid
• Creating a loading screen with an indicator
• Creating a minimap

• Chapter 6: Audio
• Introduction
• Playing sounds and music
• Modifying audio properties
• Fading sounds and music
• Using audio in a game
• Using positional audio in a game
• Metering background music
• Metering dialogue for animation
• Streaming audio
• Recording audio
• Using the iPod music library
• Creating a MIDI synthesizer
• Speech recognition and text-to-speech

• Chapter 7: AI and Logic
• Introduction
• Processing AI waypoints
• Firing projectiles at moving targets
• AI line of sight
• AI flocking using Boids
• A* pathfinding on a grid
• A* pathfinding in a Box2D world
• A* pathfinding on a TMX tilemap
• A* pathfinding in a side-scroller
• Running a Lua script
• Dynamically loading Lua scripts
• Using Lua for dialogue trees

• Chapter 8: Tips, Tools, and Ports
• Introduction
• Accessing the Cocos2d-iPhone testbed
• Packing textures using Zwoptex
• Creating levels using Tiled
• Creating levels using JSONWorldBuilder
• Creating scenes with CocosBuilder
• Using Cocos2d-X
• Using Cocos3d
• Releasing your app

• Index