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Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x

You're reading from Building Android Games with Cocos2d-x Learn to create engaging and spectacular games for Android using Cocos2d-x

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785283833

Length 160 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Cocos2d-x

Concepts

2D Game Development

Author (1):

Hernandez

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up Your Development Environment

2. Graphics FREE CHAPTER

3. Understanding Game Physics

4. User Input

5. Handling Text and Fonts

6. Audio

7. Creating Particle Systems

8. Adding Native Java Code

Index

Summary

In this chapter, we have added the background music and the sound effects to our game in a very simple way by using the two audio engines bundled with the Cocos2d-x framework.

In the next chapter, we will cover how to add particle systems to our games in order to simulate more realistic explosions each time a bomb hits our player sprite.

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Authors (1)

Hernandez

Hernandez

Raydelto Hernandez is a software engineer and university professor living in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He has developed games for BlackBerry 10, Android, and iOS. He currently teaches topics related to game development at INTEC University. At the age of 22, he started teaching at Las Americas Institute of Technology, where he earned the Professor of the Year award many times. Then he the became director of the software development center. He has also taught at UNAPEC University, UNIBE University, and INTEC University, where he is currently a research professor. He is a BlackBerry Certified Builder, Zend Certified Engineer, Certified Java programmer, CompTIA A+ professional, and Microsoft Technology Associate. Raydelto has posted on YouTube dozens of video tutorials on different programming environments, which are also available on his website at www.raydelto.org. Here, you can also find information about his open source projects. Raydelto has founded two technology companies, Soluciones GBH (in 2005) and AST Technology (in 2008), which develop software for all platforms.

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