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Game development for the rest of us
Time for action — installing Monkey
Time for action — playing Pirate TriPeaks
Time for action — playing Surviball
So let's go for something big? No!
Time for action — read the manual
Getting to Know your Monkey—a Trip to the Zoo
Call the Monk and start praying—the Monkey IDE
Time for action — opening a sample script
Time for action — navigating to the Main() function
Time for action — saving a script
Projects—bringing in some organization
Time for action — creating a project
The Monkey programming language
Time for action — Monkey's Hello World
Running your first script in a browser
Our first little game... PONGO
Time for action — the basic structure of your game
Time for action — adding some data fields
Time for action — rendering the game field
Time for action — drawing the ball and the paddles
Time for action — player paddle movement
Time for action — moving the enemy paddles
Time for action — moving the ball
Time for action — controlling the ball with the player's paddle
Time for action — letting the enemy paddles fight back
Time for action — acting on the different game modes
Exporting your game as an HTML5 website
One more thing... comment your code!
Time for action — building the basic file structure of the game
Hold that data—RocketCommander's data structure
Time for action — creating the general data structure of the game
Time for action — detailing the Update process
Time for action — detailing the Render event
Time for action — detailing the OnCreate process
Time for action — building some cities
Time for action — changing the gameClasses file
Time for action — spawning some cities in the game
Time for action — rendering the cities
Time for action — implementing the rocket launchers
Time for action — changing the gameClasses file again
Time for action — creating some launchers in the game
Time for action — updating the launchers
Time for action — modifying the menu update process
Time for action — rendering the launchers
Time for action — implementing some rockets
Time for action — modifying the gameClasses file
Time for action — modifying the launcher class
Time for action — updating the rockets
Time for action — rendering the rockets
And it goes BOOM!... Explosions
Time for action — implementing explosions
Time for action — modifying the gameClasses file
Time for action — modifying the rocket class
Time for action — updating the explosions
Time for action — rendering the explosions
Time for action — creating the bomb class
Time for action — modifying the gameClasses file
Time for action — updating the bombs
Time for action — rendering the bombs
Time for action — modifying the UpdateGame method
Time for action — displaying the game score
Using a game framework—the fantomEngine
Time for action — create the main source file and its folders
Open the storage please—the data structure of CometCrusher
Time for action — creating the data structure
First changes to the OnCreate method
Time for action — modifying the OnCreate method
Time for action — detailing the OnRender method
This is a setup—creating the game objects
Time for action — creating some layers
Time for action — implementing some stars
Time for action — setting up the player ship
Time for action — creating a method to load sounds
Time for action — creating some game info text objects
Time for action — adding a title screen
Time for action — setting up the high score list
Time for action — create a comet
Time for action — creating some comets
Time for action — finalizing the OnCreate method
We need help—more methods for the Update process
Time for action — loading a high score list
Time for action — showing the high score list
Time for action — the ActivateShield method
Time for action — determine the time delta
Time for action — updating the info text
Time for action — creating a StartNewGame method
Time for action — spawning some engine particle FX
Time for action — creating some explosions
Time for action — spawning some shots
Time for action — saving the high score list
Finalizing the OnUpdate method
Time for action — finalizing the OnUpdate method
Bring in the action—shaping the engine class
Time for action — detailing the collision detection
Time for action — detailing the OnObjectTimer method
Time for action — detailing the OnObjectUpdate method
Time for action — detailing the OnLayerUpdate method
One last thing—creating a FLASH game
Modifying the HTML5 canvas size
Time for action — modifying canvas size
Time for action — creating the main source file and its folders
Time for action — creating the data structure
First changes to the OnCreate event
Time for action — first changes to the OnCreate method
Time for action — detailing the OnRender method
Time for action — loading the game sound effects
Time for action — creating layers for the game
Time for action — creating buttons
Time for action — creating info text objects
Time for action — composing the game screen
Time for action — creating the title screen
Time for action — finalizing the OnCreate method
Helper functions for the update process
Time for action — creating collision circles
Time for action — creating the atom elements
Time for action — creating a StartNewGame method
Time for action — implementing the GetDeltaTime method
Time for action — creating a method to update the text information
Time for action — finalizing the OnUpdate method
Introducing the OnSuspend event
Time for action — modifying the OnSuspend event
Introducing the OnResume event
Time for action — updating the OnResume method
The heart of the game - the engine class
Time for action — enhancing the OnObjectTouch method
Time for action — detailing the OnObjectTransition method
Time for action — acting on timer events
Time for action — detailing the collision detection
Which frameworks and modules are used?
Time for action — creating the basic file structure
Modifying the HTML5 canvas size for testing
Time for action — modifying the HTML5 output
Time for action — creating the data structure
First changes to the OnCreate event
Time for action — first changes to the OnCreate method
Time for action — detailing the OnRender method
Time for action — loading the game sound effects
Time for action — creating layers for the game
Time for action — creating text buttons
Time for action — composing the game screen
Time for action — creating the title screen
Time for action — finalizing the OnCreate method
Helper methods for the update process
Time for action — creating the tiles
Time for action — creating the ball
The bad guys—our beloved enemies
Time for action — creating the enemy class
Time for action — spawning an enemy
Time for action — creating a StartNewGame method
Bring me up-to-date—detailing the OnUpdate event
Time for action — detailing the OnUpdate method
Time for action — creating the particle emitter class
Time for action — spawning a particle emitter
The heart of the game—the engine class
Time for action — enhancing the OnObjectTouch method
Time for action — acting on object update events
Time for action — acting on layer update events
Time for action — detailing the OnObjectTransition method
Time for action — detailing the collision detection
Time for action — creating the basic file structure
Modifying the HTML5 canvas size for testing
Time for action — modifying the HTML5 output
Time for action — creating the data structure
Time for action — creating layers for the game
Time for action — creating the title screen
Time for action — finalizing the OnCreate method
Some flexible methods for the update process
Time for action — creating the player
Time for action — loading the level tiles
Time for action — creating a StartNewGame method
Bring me up-to-date—detailing the OnUpdate event
Time for action — detailing the OnUpdate method
Time for action — updating each object
Time for action — detailing collision detection
Time for action — detailing the OnLayerTransition method
No silver, no gold, but… our game resources!
Time for action — setting up the basic file structure
Time for action — creating the data structure
First changes to the OnCreate event
Time for action — first changes to the OnCreate method
Time for action — loading the game sound effects
Time for action — creating layers for the game
Time for action — composing the background screen
Time for action — creating the clouds
Time for action — creating info text objects
Time for action — creating the title screen
Time for action — finalizing the OnCreate method
Methods for the update process
Time for action — spawning the player plane
Time for action — spawning an enemy plane
Time for action — creating a StartNewGame method
Time for action — detailing the OnUpdate method
Making it look nicer—some particle effects
Time for action — emitting the smoke
Time for action — creating the explosion
Time for action — spawning a shot
The brain—Computer AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Time for action — following the player
The heart of the game—the engine class
Time for action — enhancing the OnObjectTimer method
Time for action — detailing the OnObjectTransition method
Time for action — acting on object update events
Time for action — detailing the collision response
Time for action — acting of layer update events
The parts of the game... resources
And here they are… the game objects!
Preparation… the basic app and project structure
Time for action — creating the basic file structure
Time for action — creating 2D arrays
Storing information… the data storage
Time for action — creating the data structure
First changes to the OnCreate event
Time for action — first changes to the OnCreate method
Time for action — loading the game sound effects
Time for action — creating layers for the game
Time for action — composing the background screen
Time for action — creating the title screen
Time for action — creating the "game over" screen
The menu please… creating the menu screen
Time for action — creating text buttons
Time for action — creating the menu screen
Time for action — creating the score screen
Time for action — creating the activate layer method
Time for action — finalizing the OnCreate method
Dealing with the high-score list
Time for action — loading and saving the high-score list
Time for action — showing the high-score list
Time for action — getting tile slot IDs
Time for action — setting a tile slot ID
Check/mark the neighboring tiles
Time for action — checking neighboring horizontal tiles
Time for action — check neighboring vertical tiles
Time for action — clearing the tile map
Time for action — counting matching tiles
Time for action — creating a gem
Time for action — refilling the tile map
Methods for the update process
Time for action — creating a StartNewGame method
Time for action — updating the text info
Time for action — showing the "game over" screen
Time for action — showing the menu
Bring me up-to-date—detailing the OnUpdate event
Time for action — detailing the OnUpdate method
Time for action — spawning an explosion
Time for action — acting on object timer events
Time for action — enhancing the OnObjectTouch method
Time for action — detailing the OnObjectTransition method
Time for action — acting on layer update events
Which markets exist for your game?
Existing methods of making money
Implementing advertising in your app
Time for action — creating a new MobFox app ID
Time for action — adding the MobFox framework to the XCODE project
Time for action — modifying the code to display ads
Implementing MobFox in Android
Time for action — creating a new MobFox app ID
Time for action — modifying the project to display ads in Android
Time for action — creating an app ID in InMobi
Time for action — add a backfill in MobFox
Publishing in the Android market
Publishing in Apple's App Store
Time for action — adding an icon to the Xcode project
Time for action — setting the product name in the target settings
Time for action — setting the distribution code signing profile