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Following hot in the late 2020 preview release of Cocos Creator 3, today Cocos Creator 3 is now ready for production use. The Cocos Creator 3 release is absolutely packed with features, by far and away the biggest new feature being the new 3D functionality joining the existing 2D game …
Hot off the heels of the Cocos2d-x 10th anniversary, Cocos Creator have just released a public preview of Cocos Creator 3. Cocos Creator 3 brings 3D functionality to the previously 2D/2.5D free game engine. If you are interested in learning Cocos Creator for 2D game development, you can check out …
The free Cocos Creator game engine just got a heavy duty upgrade today, with the release of Cocos Creator 3D technical preview. This release adds an all new 3D game engine to Cocos Creator, which was previously a 2D only game engine. The new underlying 3D engine has a complete …
CocosCreator, a free Cocos2d-x powered cross platform game engine, just released a version 2.4.0. If you are interested in learning more about Cocos Creator, check out our complete Cocos Creator tutorial series available here.Details of Cocos Creator 2.4.0:This update brings more new features, optimizes performance and improves stability. Efficiency is everything! This version contains many […]
A brand new tutorial series just went live on devga.me (to join the existing Armory 3D series), the Cocos Creator Crash Course.The series currently consists of the following tutorial parts:Cocos Creator Tutorial Series homepageIntroduction and Getting StartedCreating a SpriteIntroduction to Cocos ScriptingDebuggingHandling InputSound and MusicAnimationThere are a few more tutorial chapters in active development. The […]
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, […]
Previous Part Table Of ContentsNext Part So at this point in time we’ve covered configuring Cocos2d-x, basic graphics, mouse, touch and keyboard event handling but wouldn’t it be nice to, you know… do something? Most games are pretty boring if they are completely static, no? Well in this tutorial section we are going […]
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 […]
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 […]
Table Of Contents Next Part Welcome to the GameFromScratch.com Cocos2d-x tutorial series. Cocos2d-x is a cross platform, C++ based port of the popular Cocos2D ObjectiveC game development library. Using the most recent version of Cocos2D-x you can target Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. Previous versions enabled you to target even more targets […]
