Learn cocos2d 2: Game Development for iOS

Table of contents

1. Title Page
2. Dedication
3. Contents at a Glance
4. Contents
5. About the Authors
6. About the Technical Reviewers
7. Acknowledgments
8. Preface
9. Chapter 1: Introduction
   1. What’s New in the Third Edition?
   2. Why Use cocos2d for iOS?
   3. Why Use Kobold2D over cocos2d-iphone?
   4. Other cocos2d Game Engines
   5. This Book Is for You
   6. Prerequisites
   7. What You Will Learn
   8. What’s in This Book
   9. Questions and Feedback
10. Chapter 2: Getting Started
    1. What You Need to Get Started
    2. The Anatomy of cocos2d and Kobold2D Applications
    3. Memory Management with ARC
    4. Changing the World
    5. What Else You Should Know
    6. Summary
11. Chapter 3: Essentials
    1. The cocos2d Scene Graph
    2. The CCNode Class Hierarchy
    3. CCNode
    4. Director, Scenes, and Layers
    5. CCSprite
    6. CCLabelTTF
    7. Menus
    8. Actions
    9. Orientation, Singletons, Tests, and API References
    10. Summary
12. Chapter 4: Your First Game
    1. Create the DoodleDrop Project
    2. Start with an ARC-enabled cocos2d Project
    3. Create the DoodleDrop Scene
    4. Adding the Player Sprite
    5. Simple Accelerometer Input
    6. First Test Run
    7. Player Velocity
    8. Adding Obstacles
    9. Collision Detection
    10. Labels and Bitmap Fonts
    11. Simply Playing Audio
    12. iPad Considerations
    13. Summary
13. Chapter 5: Game Building Blocks
    1. Working with Multiple Scenes
    2. Working with Multiple Layers
    3. Subclassing Game Objects from CCSprite
    4. Composing Game Objects Using CCSprite
    5. Curiously Cool CCNode Classes
    6. Summary
14. Chapter 6: Sprites In-Depth
    1. Retina Display
    2. CCSpriteBatchNode
    3. Sprite Animations the Hard Way
    4. Animation Helper Category
    5. Working with Texture Atlases
    6. Summary
15. Chapter 7: Scrolling with Joy
    1. Advanced Parallax Scrolling
    2. A Virtual Joypad
    3. Summary
16. Chapter 8: Shoot ’em Up
    1. Let’s Make Some Enemies
    2. The Component Classes
    3. Shooting Things
    4. A Healthbar for the Boss
    5. Summary
17. Chapter 9: Particle Effects
    1. Example Particle Effects
    2. Creating a Particle Effect the Hard Way
    3. Particle Designer
    4. Shoot ’em Up with Particle Effects
    5. Summary
18. Chapter 10: Working with Tilemaps
    1. What Is a Tilemap?
    2. Preparing Images with TexturePacker
    3. Tiled (Qt) Map Editor
    4. Using Orthogonal Tilemaps with Cocos2d
    5. Summary
19. Chapter 11: Isometric Tilemaps
    1. Designing Isometric Tile Graphics
    2. Isometric Tilemap Editing with Tiled
    3. Isometric Game Programming
    4. Adding More Content to the Game
    5. Summary
20. Chapter 12: Physics Engines
    1. Basic Concepts of Physics Engines
    2. Limitations of Physics Engines
    3. The Showdown: Box2D vs. Chipmunk
    4. Box2D
    5. Chipmunk
    6. Summary
21. Chapter 13: Pinball Game
    1. Shapes: Convex and Counterclockwise
    2. Working with PhysicsEditor
    3. Programming the Pinball Game
    4. Summary
22. Chapter 14: Game Center
    1. Enabling Game Center
    2. Game Kit Programming
    3. Summary
23. Chapter 15: Cocos2d and UIKit Views
    1. What Is Cocoa Touch?
    2. Using Cocoa Touch and cocos2d Together
    3. Alert: Your First UIKit View in cocos2d
    4. Embedding UIKit Views in a cocos2d App
    5. Embedding the cocos2d View in Cocoa Touch Apps
    6. Summary
24. Chapter 16: Kobold2D Introduction
    1. Benefits of Using Kobold2D
    2. The Kobold2D Workspace
    3. The Hello Kobold2D Template Project
    4. DoodleDrop for Mac with KKInput
    5. Summary
25. Chapter 17: Out of the Ordinary
    1. Additional Resources for Learning and Working
    2. The Business of Making Games
    3. Summary
26. Index