Hi everyone, this is Ray Wenderlich and Rod Strougo.
We are pleased to announce that our book Learning Cocos2D: A Hands-On Guide to Building iOS Games with Cocos2D, Box2D, and Chipmunk is now in print!
The book teaches you everything you need to know to use Cocos2D and the Box2D and Chipmunk physics libraries to build your own games. It’s great for complete beginners to Cocos2D/Box2D/Chipmunk, or for those who are looking to firm up their knowledge or learn some new tricks.
The book takes a hands-on approach, and walks you step-by-step through the process of building a complete game called Space Viking! After building this game, you’ll have practical experience you can apply to making your own games.
By making the complete game you’ll learn the following:
- How to move a character with Joystick controls
- How to animate characters with multiple animations and states
- How to add enemies with basic AI
- How to make side-scrolling levels
- How to make a cool cart racing game with realistic game physics
- How to make a jumping platformer with game physics
- And much more!
Learn how to make a cool game with Cocos2D, Box2D, and Chipmunk!
If you want to see more, click here to see a video of one of the levels in action!
The code in the book is compatible with the latest version of Xcode (Xcode 4) and Cocos2D (Cocos2D 1.0).
You can get the book in the following formats:
Each format contains the same content – it’s just where you’d prefer to read it.
Rod and I would like to give a huge thanks to Ricardo Quesada, Erin Catto, Scott Lembcke – without these guys, this book (and many cool games!) would never have been possible!
We hope you enjoy the book, and if you have any comments or questions please stop by the book’s official website or the book forums!