Tutorials for Cocos2D for iOS are a plenty on the web. But I managed to find one that’s not very well known and provides a more technical introduction to the Cocos2D concepts and how to program menus, animations and detecting collisions. By technical I mean that the focus is clearly on providing working code.
Written by Hans Hamm the Tutorial Programming iPhone Games with Cocos2D is divided into four parts:
- Part 1 - Cocos2D Architecture Overview
- Part 2 - Buttons & Menus
- Part 3 - Sprite Animations using a Texture Atlas
- Part 4 - Scheduling updates & detecting collisions
Hans is also a co-founder of Anima Entertainment, they created the iPhone games Crash Birds (free) and Earth Defender:
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I like those tutorials, very useful.
I’ve seen that the pixel perfect collision is not explained. I think it will be great that someone with Objective-C experience could code the pixel perfect collision function. I don’t need pixel perfect collision for my current project, but it’s a very common task for game developers, and an already cocos2d built in function will be appreciated.
When programming in Flash, I used a function that followed those steps:
1. Check bounding box intersection.
2. If there’s intersection rect, then:
2.1. Create sprite 1 intersection image map.
2.2. Create sprite 2 intersection image map.
2.3. Check if some pixels on image map 1 and image map 2 overlap.
Maybe this would be a good tutorial from you or other Objective-C experienced programmers, or a whole new chapter for your book.
Regards.
Hi,
thank you for these words. I hope I could give starters a good chance to get into cocos2d by reading my posts. If you like them you should also take a look at my developers blog on anima: http://www.anima-entertainment.de/?cat=6. there are some posts which are missing on gehacktes.net and also they are more uptodate.
cheers,
Hans Hamm