This document discusses cocos2d game programming and game development. It covers why people play games, popular game categories, the skills needed for a game developer, the game development process including pre-production, development and post-production, tips for game development, and examples of games created using cocos2d like Shake Series and Monster Buster. It also discusses the history of games, elements of successful mobile games, and future trends like augmented reality games.

1. Cocos2D Game
Programming
Dong Gyu PARK
2012. April( dongupak@gmail.com )
ETID at Texas A&M University

2. Let’s Talk About GAME.

3. Fun of GAME
• Why are you playing Game?
• It’s just FUN!

4. Why people playing GAME?
http://digi-boom.blogspot.com/2011/02/why-do-people-play-games.html

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

6. Game Developer
• Fluent in Programming
• Basic 2D/3D linear algebra
• Software Engineering
• Tools-Graphical Tools, Sound Tools, Map
Editing Tools, etc
• Good Storytelling

7. 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

8. Pre-production

9. Pre-production
• Make a demo version(prototype)
• Very important process before programmers and designers

10. Development

11. Post-production
Sometimes post-production needs more time than
development

12. Release

13. Marketing & Testing

14. Portfolios

15. Shake Series
• Shaking App using accelerometer sensor
• 4 Players can play
• Fun Sounds
• Lightweight App
• Game Center available
• Cocos2d game development kit

16. Shake Series

17. Coke Shake

18. Action Game

19. Monster Buster ver 2

20. Features
• Monster Characters
• Shooting Effect
• Many Shooting Items
• Stages and various backgrounds
• Level design using plist

21. Features
Hit Effect
Game Item
Weapons

22. Game Level Design using
Plist(meta data)
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3

23. Game Code

24. Game Dev Tips
• Separate your code from your data
• Easy way to porting, upgrading,
debugging, etc

25. And more
player can move the character using accelerometer

26. Development of Game
Contents

27. Independent Developer
• Minimum Budgets
• High Quality Design Source
• Sound Source
• Programming and Testing
• Marketing
• All by YOURSELF!!

28. Bubble ball

29. Ready for
Game Development
• You already have programming skills
• You probably love games
• Understanding of Storytelling
• You learned OpenGL
• and some mathematical backgrounds...

30. History

31. Early Game
Tennis For Two(1958)

32. PC Game

33. Mobile Game

34. AR Game : AR Defender
AR defense - tracking by
camera and marker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB5xUStsUs4&feature=player_embedded

35. Look-up
Team play is available
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bps3FkX-_cY&feature=player_embedded

36. 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

37. 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