Cocos Open-Source Game Development Primer Tutorial
Games development is huge on the net, and so there are good reasons to get into “Open-Source” for collaborative purposes and to pick the brains of experts in forums and blogs and chatrooms about what is good and what is a waste of time.
In our recent foray back into the Visual Studio world, we shaped to try out what was on offer with Visual Studio Express 2015 on Windows 10 related to a Games project, and stumbled on the “Cocos Open-Source Development System” based on the “Cocos2d Framework” information from Wikipedia (thanks) …
Cocos2d is an open source software framework. It can be used to build games, apps and other cross platform GUI based interactive programs. Cocos2d contains many branches with the best known being Cocos2d-objc, Cocos2d-x, Cocos2d-html5 and Cocos2d-XNA. There are some independent editors in the cocos2d community, such as those contributing in the areas of SpriteSheet editing, particle editing, font editing and Tilemap editing as well as world editors including SpriteBuilder and CocoStudio.
We’ve got together a “Hello World” feeling of “stumbling along” getting a sample project to run an animation to dip our toes into the deep deep oceans of knowledge swirling around this topic … ie. we want you to know you can do it … and we don’t work for Nike?!
If clicking today’s tutorial picture is not your style, below, we’ve broken it into that approach’s two components …
- Preparatory installs and project creation and configurations … and …
- Running project’s animation in situ (recorded off a Windows laptop via an Android Phone Camera app’s Video option and emailed on and downloaded to MacBook Pro and uploaded to the website … so there, ngaaaaa! … sorry if you can’t play .mp4)
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