Learn Gamesalad for IOS: Game Development for Iphone, Ipad, and Html5

ISBN-13: 9781430243564 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 420 str.

David Guerineau

Opis

So you have a great idea for an iPhone or iPad game, but you've never programmed before. Where to start? Here With GameSalad, you can design, build, and publish a 2D game in the App Store using an easy-to-use, no-programming-required game creation tool. Learn GameSalad for iOS shows you how to set up your development environment and how to create a variety of simple 2D games from a breakout-style game to an arcade shooter to a maze game. You'll also learn how to use GameSalad to create a non-game app as well. This book also takes you beyond game development into getting your game into the App Store, using iAd, and marketing your game.

• A clear, step-by-step approach to GameSalad for the complete beginner
• Create fun, complete, and fully functional game projects
• An idea to App Store publishing guide

Spis treści

1. Preparing Your Design Environment
2. Your First Game from Scratch: The Pong Game
3. Finishing Pong: Scoring and Game Interaction
4. Break a Wall: Implementing Comments, Accelerometer Movements, LifeManagement, and Pause
5. Making a Shoot 'Em Up Game: Carrot Invader
6. Learning Gravity, Basic Physics and Camera Controls: An Angry Birds-like Game, Part I
7. Creating a Game Menu and a Particles Effect: An Angry Birds-like Game, Part II
8. Graphics and Sound Effects: Labyrinth 
9. Bonuses, Game Center, and iAd: Break a Wall
10. Device Internal Clock and Cyclic Movement: Non-Game Apps
11. Submitting Your Game to the App Store
12. Introduction to Game Promotion