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Cocos2d-x Programmers Guide

C++ and Lua

Table Of Contents

1. About Cocos2d-x

   • A very brief history
     • launched in July 2010, cocos2d-x is the best open-source game engine available.
     • Versioning information (i.e C++, JS, Lua, not related to Cocos2d-iphone, etc)
     • cocos2d-x comes in a variety of flavors
       • c++c++
       • LuaLua
   • Prerequisites
     • Operating systems and tools supported
       • For Android development
       • For iOS and OSX development
       • For Linux development
       • For Windows and Windows Phone development
   • Why choose Cocos2d-x vs other game engines
   • Where to get help
     • Official Forums

2. Basic Copncepts

3. Jumping into Cocos2d-x (We are building a simple game, no explanation)

   • Installation - See appropriate Appendix
   • Getting Started
   • Creating Your First Scene
   • Adding Content to the Scene
   • Using Actions to Animate Scenes
   • Transitioning Between Scenes
   • Building Complex Content Using Nodes
   • Creating Nodes That Interact with Each Other

4. Sprite and Nodes

   • What are Sprites
   • Creating Sprites
     • Creating a Textured Sprite
     • Creating an Untextured Sprite
     • Creating a Sprite From a SpriteFrame
     • Creating a Sprite From SpriteCache
     • Creating a Sprite From a Rect
   • Sprite Manipulation
     • Resizing
     • Anchor Point and Position
   • SpriteSheets

5. Actions To Nodes

   • What are Basic Actions
     • Animate
     • Fade In/Out
     • Move
     • Rotate
     • Scale
     • Tint
     • Tweening and Easing
   • What are Sequences
     • Spawn
     • Reverse
   • Running Actions and Sequences

6. Building and Transitioning Scenes

   • What is a Scene?
   • Creating a Scene
     • Creating a Node Tree
     • Node properties to its descendants
   • Coordinate Systems
     • Converting between coordinate systems
   • Transitioning between Scenes

7. UI

   • Labels
     • BMFont
     • TTF
     • Label Atlas
     • SystemFont
   • Label examples
   • Menu/Menu Items
     • What makes up a menu
     • Menu Items and adding to a Menu
     • Examples
       • create Menu with 1 item.
       • create Menu from array of items
       • Lambdas
   • Buttons
   • Scroll
   • Layout

8. Other Node Types

   • TMX
   • Particle
   • Parallax
   • Video

9. Event Dispatcher

   • What is the EventDispatch mechanism?
     • responds to user events.
     • The basics:
       • Event listeners encapsulate your event processing code.
       • Event dispatcher notifies listeners of user events.
       • Event objects contain information about the events.
   • 5 types of event listeners.
     • EventListenerTouch - responds to touch events
       • describe what to override.
     • EventListenerKeyboard - responds to keyboard events
       • describe what to override.
     • EventListenerAcceleration - responds to accelerometer events
       • describe what to override.
     • EventListenMouse - responds to mouse events
       • describe what to override.
     • EventListenerCustom - responds to custom events
       • describe what to override.
   • Registering event with the dispatcher
   • Removing events from the dispatcher

10. 3D

    • 3D Sprite
    • 3D Actions
    • 3D Animations
    • Placeholders for: Lights, Shadows, Cameras

11. Lua

    • call custom c++ from Lua
    • bindings to c++
    • subclassing
    • Placeholders for: memory management, Debug a Lua Game

12. Services

    • other SDK's
    • Plugin-X
    • Placeholders - IAP, FB

13. Physics

    • What options and why integrated physics engine
    • Physics concepts
    • Physics world, bodies
    • Collision
    • Examples

14. Advanced Topics

    • Best Practice - optimization, memory, performance, profiling
    • Sound
    • SQLite
    • Subclass Cocos2d-x classes
    • Data structures (i.e Vector)
    • Custom OpenGL and Shaders (what to cover here? CustomCommand?)
    • c++11 usage
    • rendering pipeline (notes about this in the wiki)
    • networking - curl, http
    • ccConfig.h (include and the defines that you can enable for debugging memory leaks, drawing, etc.)
    • file system access
    • resolution independence