Chapter 1. All About Cocos2D
Before diving deep into the fun world of game development, we will spend some time (but only a little) understanding what Cocos2D is, how it can help you develop games, and why you should use it.
In this chapter, we're going to review the following points:
- What a game engine is and why you should use it
- Why you should choose Cocos2D as a game engine
- A list of games created with Cocos2D
Note
There are several versions of Cocos2D. The original Cocos2D is written in Python and was first released in 2008. There is also a C++ version called cocos2d-x, HTML5 version called cocos2d-HTML5, and several other versions.
In this book, we're going to review the currently most popular version of Cocos2D, that is, Cocos2D Swift (previously ...
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