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Previous Part Table Of ContentsNext Part In this part of the Cocos2d-x tutorial series we are going to take a look at what’s involved in handling keyboard events. If you went through the mouse/touch tutorial, a lot of this is going to seem very familiar, as the process is quite similar. That said, […]
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Previous Part Table Of ContentsNext Part In this part of the Cocos2d-x tutorial series we are going to look at how to handle touch and mouse events . First you should be aware that by default Cocos2d-x treats a mouse left click as a touch, so if you only have simple input requirements […]
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So today I upgraded to Xcode 6.1 beta because I felt like having an afternoon of frustration. After upgrading my OS version, purging my old copy of Xcode and installing the newest version, I load up an existing project and: [REDACTED]: no identity found Command /usr/bin/codesign failed with exit code 1 Ah, crap. […]
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Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part Now that we have Cocos2d-x installed and configured and our project created, we are going to take a look at basic graphics operations. This tutorial assumes you ran through the prior part and created a project already. I am going to assume you have a working […]
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Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In the previous particle tutorial I used something called a tween followed by the instructions “don’t worry about it, I will cover them later”. Well, welcome to later! First off, what exactly is a tween? It’s actually probably exactly what you expect it is, basically […]
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Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part Now that we’ve covered input and graphics, it’s time we move on to audio. Here is a bit of a warning upfront… HTML5 audio sucks. Yeah, that’s about it in nutshell. This is one of those areas where games in HTML5 really suffer and […]
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Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In the previous tutorial, which I will admit… some time has elapsed since I wrote it, sorry about that… anyways, in the last tutorial we looked at handling keyboard input using Phaser. In this tutorial we are going to look at handling mouse and touch events. […]
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Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In the previous part we looked at handling graphics in Phaser, now we are going to look at handling input. This part is going to be code heavy and fairly light on description. Look to the code comments for more details. As is pretty common with […]
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Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part I’ve done a number of these walk through type tutorials using many different languages/libraries and there is one common traffic trend. People LOVE reading about graphics. In every single example the post I do about graphics always seems to draw the most traffic. I guess we […]
Adventures in Phaser with TypeScript–Graphics Time! Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part One thing every single game has in common is a game loop. That said, it’s not always under your control! Today we are going to look at how the game loop is implemented in the Phaser HTML5 game engine. Pretty much every single video game […]
Adventures in Phaser with TypeScript– Where did my game loop go? Read More