Introduction to 2d Game Programming Using cocos2d

Serban Porumbescu
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Overview
Why cocos2d? Beginner Hurdles cocos2d Basics cocos2d Specics Samples and Tests Resources
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Why cocos2d?
Well over 200 games shipped Great licensing Lots of features Extremely active community Whats your business?
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Beginner Hurdles

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Beginner Hurdles
Objective-C and Memory Setting Up a cocos2d Project Running Samples and Tests Understanding Tests

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Learn Objective-C

Read: Learning Objective-C: A Primer

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Learn Memory Management

Read: Memory Management Programming Guide for Cocoa

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cocos2d Project Setup

Super easy ... now sudo ./install_template.sh

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Running Samples & Tests

Wonderful source of examples that people
seem to overlook

Once noticed, folks have issues running

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Running Samples & Tests

Where are they and how do we run?

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Running Samples & Tests

Make sure to set both the Active Target

and the Active Executable

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Tests
Not games Meant to exercise some specic functionality Useful for guring stuff out

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Tests
Structured very similarly Some base test class

Instantiate new test by advancing through

NSStrings using NSClassFromString
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Tests

Lets look at AtlasSpriteTest and

EaseActionsTest

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cocos2d Basics

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cocos2d Basics
Game has Scenes Each Scene has some number of Layers Layers capture user interaction and contain
sprites

Director manages the scenes

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Scenes
Screens in your game Can almost think of them as separate apps

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Layers
Take up the entire screen Setup to handle touch and accelerometer Can contain other layers and sprites (and
other stuff)

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Sprites

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Director
Manages moving between Scenes Pausing and running Scenes Sets up OpenGL ES Layer asks Director to move on

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cocos2d Specics

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Important Classes

CocosNode Scene Layer Director AtlasSprite AtlasSpriteManager

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CocosNode

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CocosNode
Lots of properties position, scale, camera, OpenGL z position,
children

Most objects in cocos2d inherit from

CocosNode

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Scene

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Layer

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Director(s)

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AtlasSprite

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AtlasSpriteManager

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Sprite vs. AtlasSprite

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Sprites

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AtlasSprite

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Sprite vs. AtlasSprite

In general, dont use Sprites AtlasSprites way faster Its all about the OpenGL ES

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Samples and Tests

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Resources

http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/
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Resources

Wiki: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/wiki/doku.php/
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Resources

Forums: http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/

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iPhoneGameJam.com

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Thanks!

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