Creating Games with cocos2d for iPhone 2

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Thanks for the Memory Game
• The project is...
• Let's build a menu
• Where is the scene?
• Building the playfield
• We need sprites
• Building a sprite sheet
• On to the playfield
• Creating the playfield header
• Creating the playfield layer
• The flow of the game
• A stack of tiles
• The memory tile class
• Loading tiles
• Drawing tiles
• Adding interactivity
• Checking for matches
• Scoring and excitement
• Animating the score
• Adding lives and game over
• Bringing it all together
• It's quiet...too quiet
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Match 3 and Recursive Methods
• The project is…
• Basic gem interaction
• The MAGem header
• The MAGem class
• Generating gems
• Building the playfield
• Checking for matches
• Collecting touches
• Moving gems
• Checking moves
• Removing gems
• The update method
• Predictive logic
• Artificial randomness
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Thumping Moles for Fun
• The project is…
• Design approach
• Designing the spawn
• Portrait mode
• Custom TTF fonts
• Defining a molehill
• Building the mole
• Making a molehill
• Drawing the ground
• Mole spawning
• Special moles
• Moving moles
• The animation cache
• Combining actions and animation
• Simultaneous actions
• Deleting moles
• Touching moles
• Tying it together
• Scoring the mole
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Give a Snake a Snack…
• The project is…
• Design approach
• Building a better snake
• Anatomy of a snake segment
• Dissecting the snake
• Building the head
• Building the body segments
• Moving the snake
• Turning the snake
• Death of a snake
• Building the environment
• Outer walls
• Inner walls
• Building snake food
• Collisions and eating
• Levels and difficulties
• The main loop
• Level-up checking
• Dead mice
• But…how do we control the snake?
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Brick Breaking Balls with Box2D
• The project is…
• Box2D – a primer
• Box2D – what is it?
• Basic parts of Box2D
• On to the game!
• World building
• On the edge
• Having a ball
• Setting everything in motion
• Collision handling
• Losing your ball
• Destruction
• Paddling around
• Paddle fixture
• Touching the paddle
• Storing player data
• Displaying player data
• Building bricks
• Loading a plist
• Picking a pattern
• Breaking bricks, for real
• Power-ups, good and bad
• Picking up power-ups
• Paddle deformation
• Restoring the paddle
• Multiball
• Losing lives with multiball
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Cycles of Light
• The game is…
• Design review
• Let's build a bike
• CLBike header
• CLBike implementation
• Bike rotation
• Turning the bike
• Building walls
• Boundary walls
• Bike walls
• Bike integration
• Bike movement
• Control buttons
• Touching buttons
• Flashing with blocks
• Finishing the buttons
• Building the background grid
• Drawing the grid
• The second grid
• Moving grids
• The glScissor
• The playfield
• Generating the bikes
• Collision handling
• Making it move
• Crashing bikes
• Bluetooth multiplayer
• Peer Picker
• Session callbacks
• Sending messages
• Receiving data
• Upgrading our bikes
• Why send moves?
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Playing Pool, Old School
• The game is…
• Overall design
• Building the table
• The Box2D world
• Building the rails
• Building pockets
• Creating the cue stick
• Loading the rules
• Rules.plist
• Rack 'em up
• Building the rack
• Player HUD
• Displaying messages
• Collision handling
• Building the control base
• One-touch control
• Two-touch control
• The rules engine
• Putting balls back
• Checking the table
• The playfield init method
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Shoot, Scroll, Shoot Again
• The game is…
• Design review
• Tiled – a primer
• Drawing the ground
• Logic layers
• Spawn layer
• Understanding TMX format
• Creating an HD map
• Implementing the tilemap
• Adding our hero
• Focus on the hero
• Controlling the hero with SneakyJoystick
• Tilt controls
• Interpreting the controls
• Building the HUD
• Scene construction
• Tile helper methods
• Tile self-identification
• Smarter hero walking
• Time for bullets
• TDBullet class
• Building the enemy
• Adding the enemies
• Collision handling
• Everybody gets hit
• Game over, man
• Smarter enemies
• Code not covered here
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Running and Running and Running...
• The Game Is...
• Design review
• Building the ground
• ERTile class
• Adding gap tiles
• Scrolling the tiles
• Parallax background
• Our hero
• Animation loading
• Updating the hero
• Touch controls
• Shooting bullets
• Enemies everywhere
• Collision handling
• Getting shot with particles
• Death of hero
• Summary

• Index