Cocos2D Game Programming

Dong Gyu PARK 2012. April( dongupak@gmail.com )

ETID at Texas A&M University

Let’s Talk About GAME.

Fun of GAME

• Why are you playing Game?

• It’s just FUN!

Why people playing GAME?

http://digi-boom.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-do-people-play-games.html

Game is the most popular category

http://www.marketingcharts.com/direct/games-leading-mobile-app-category-18209/nielsen-most-popular-mobile-app-categories-jul11gif/

Game Developer

• Fluent in Programming

• Basic 2D/3D linear algebra

• Software Engineering

• Tools-Graphical Tools, Sound Tools, Map Editing Tools, etc

• Good Storytelling

Game Development Step

• Pre-Production Planning

• plan out all the ideas and story elements

• Development

• art-team, program-team, sound-team, design-team, coordination,...

• Post-Production-marketing, testing

• Upgrade and Debug

Pre-production

Pre-production

• Make a demo version(prototype)

• Very important process before programmers and designers

Development

Post-production

Sometimes post-production needs more time thandevelopment

Release

Marketing & Testing

Portfolios

Shake Series

• Shaking App using accelerometer sensor

• 4 Players can play

• Fun Sounds

• Lightweight App

• Game Center available

• Cocos2d game development kit

Shake Series

Coke Shake

Action Game

Monster Buster ver 2

Features

• Monster Characters

• Shooting Effect

• Many Shooting Items

• Stages and various backgrounds

• Level design using plist

Features

Game Item

Weapons

Hit Effect

Game Level Design using Plist(meta data)

Stage 1

Stage 2

Stage 3

Game Code

Game Dev Tips

• Separate your code from your data

• Easy way to porting, upgrading, debugging, etc

And more

player can move the character using accelerometer

Development of Game Contents

Independent Developer

• Minimum Budgets

• High Quality Design Source

• Sound Source

• Programming and Testing

• Marketing

• All by YOURSELF!!

Bubble ball

Ready for Game Development

• You already have programming skills

• You probably love games

• Understanding of Storytelling

• You learned OpenGL

• and some mathematical backgrounds...

History

Early Game

Tennis For Two(1958)

PC Game

Mobile Game

AR Game : AR Defender

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB5xUStsUs4&feature=player_embedded

AR defense - tracking by camera and marker

Look-up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bps3FkX-_cY&feature=player_embedded

Team play is available

Successful Mobile Game

• The game has to be easy to learn and understand

• people to not spend much time to learn mobile games

• Little input, Big output

• Simple but huge amount of feedbacks

• Physics based gameplay

• physics give much variations on same input

Successful Mobile Game

• A bright, cartoony, and cute visual style

• Very simple storyline

• The player is constantly rewarded

• Huge amount of levels but very short to play

• Provides users ranking