Packt published a new book on Cocos2d-X, “Cocos2d-X by Example Beginner’s Guide” by Roger Engelbert (http://www.packtpub.com/cocos2d-x-by-example/book)
Overview from the Packt website:
- Learn to build multi-device games in simple, easy steps, letting the framework do all the heavy lifting
- Spice things up in your games with easy to apply animations, particle effects, and physics simulation
- Quickly implement and test your own gameplay ideas, with an eye for optimization and portability
- Enjoy building the games as much as you will enjoy playing them
What you will learn from the book according to the Packt website:
- Make your games look cooler with particle effects
- Create place holder sprites to quickly test your game ideas
- Load external data into your games
- Build game menus and tutorials
- Implement game-wide events with notifications
- Create a dash game with a textured terrain
- Build a Box2D puzzle game with multiple levels
- Create a hybrid iOS and Android project
It’s a by example book, so you’ll learn all those concepts through 6 different games.
What’s interesting about this book is that it advertises: no programming experience necessary! I don’t know how true that is yet, but am gonna give this book a read (give me 2 weeks), and since I know nothing about Cocos2d-X and C++, so if I get it, then I would highly recommend it.
Michelle Chen 