Rapid Game Development Using Cocos2d-JS, 1st ed. An end-to-end guide to 2D game development using JavaScript

Get a gentle introduction to the Cocos2d-JS framework to begin working with sprite manipulations, animations, and other 2d game development topics. This book covers environment setup and getting started with a framework that works seamlessly across all browsers. Rapid Game Development Using Cocos2d-JS teaches you the overall architecture of Cocos2d-JS and explains the internal working of the framework.

You will dive deep into sprites, the most important entity in Cocos2d-JS, animation APIs, and primitive shapes. You?ll also learn about the Cocos2d-JS UI system to get a head start in 2d game development. Finally, you?ll discover the features of Chipmunk (the built-in physics engine) with full examples.

• Get a simple head start in Cocos2d-JS
• Gain an architectural overview of the different blocks of the framework
• Master sprites, spritesheets, and frame animation
• Work with the event system in Cocos2d-JS
• Discover the animation APIs in Cocos2d-JS
• Leverage the built-in physics engine 

Who This Book Is For

Beginners looking to develop cross-platform mobile/web games with cocos2d-js, developers with intermediate skills on cocos2d-js looking for the reference. 

Chapter Goal: To teach the basic environment setup for various platforms and demonstrates the baisc ‘hello world’ program

No of pages    6

Sub -Topics

1.        Introduction

2.        EnvironmentSetup

4.        Runningthesampl

Chapter Goal: To give the overview of architecture of cocos2d-js, explains how different blocks of framework works together, explains about JSB and native deployment.

No of pages:3

Sub - Topics  

1.        EngineArchitecture

2.        JSB

3.        ObjectHierarchy

4.       

Chapter Goal: To give the details about sprites, sprite sheets, frames, and frame animations.

No of pages : 10

Sub - Topics: 

1.        Introduction

3.        SpriteWithSingleImage

4.        SpriteWithSpriteSheet

6.        SpriteFrameAnimationWithPListData

Chapter Goal: To teach how to use various inputs such as touch, keyboard, mouse in your game.

No of pages<: 7

Sub - Topics:

1.        Introduction

2.        TouchEvents

3.        MouseEvents

4.        KeyboardEvents