{"id":25228,"date":"2016-09-25T03:01:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T17:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=25228"},"modified":"2016-09-25T07:04:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T21:04:10","slug":"cocos2d-mac-xcode-game-development-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/cocos2d-mac-xcode-game-development-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Cocos2d Mac Xcode Game Development Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Cocos2d<\/a>

Cocos2d Mac Xcode Game Development Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Games development involving “heavy” graphical usage usually requires more than you can do very professionally with Javascript client code in a web application that we did, last, for Star Proteins versus Superbugs Game CSS Tutorial<\/a>, and if you read that tutorial we did say …<\/p>\n

\nThe “shoot ’em up” aspects are, as you’d expect from a properly spent youth not playing Space Invaders, lame … oh so lame … just an HTML hr<\/a> (horizontal rule) element so far. It’s early days. Though wouldn’t count on too much here, and it is better to get the atmospherics by devoting your time to a gaming platform like Cocos here<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… and point you towards the Cocos<\/i> games development framework, as an initial idea as to how to become more serious. We discovered Cocos<\/i> for the first time in a Windows 10 environment with Visual Studio 2015 Express IDE usage that we talked about, below, with Cocos Open-Source Game Development Primer Tutorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today, we do some rudimentary Cocos2d games development framework work, but this time the environment is Mac OS X Yosemite (Version 10.10.3 (14D136)) on a MacBook Pro laptop under the auspices of the Xcode IDE (Version 6.4 (6E35b)).<\/p>\n

Initial research and development on this topic on the net led us to this GitHub cocos2d-objc<\/a> repository … thanks … used to interface to Xcode and Objective-C coding on a Mac OS X environment, though other iOS type platforms work with this repository as well.<\/p>\n

The major installation steps involved …<\/p>\n

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  1. Terminal application “cd” to place of interest to place an Xcode cocos2d project, then type, as per the advice at the bottom of that previous link’s webpage …
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    \n$ git clone --recursive https:\/\/github.com\/cocos2d\/cocos2d-objc.git
    \n$ cd cocos2d-objc
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    \n… (or clicking “Clone or download” button on that previous GitHub link, could be another option that is like the first command above)<\/li>\n<\/li>\n
  2. Open Xcode<\/li>\n
  3. File -> Open (we made a copy of) cocos2d.xcodeproj<\/li>\n
  4. Select “cocos2d-tests-mac” from the Schema selection list … again as advised near the bottom of the webpage of that previous link<\/li>\n
  5. Product -> Run … compiles and builds, hopefully successfully, then executes various testing scenarios useful to spark your imagination about where to go next …<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    … and as far as “where to go next”, especially if you are new to this, you may need any\/all of …<\/p>\n