Monkey Game Development: Beginner's Guide

Create monetized 2d games deployable to almost any platform.

Key Features

• Create eight fun 2d games.
• Understand how to structure your code, your data structures and how to set up the control flow of a modern 2D game
• Learn how to deploy your games to iOS, Android, XNA (Xbox, Windows Phone 7) and desktop platforms (Windows, OSX)

Book Description

What you will learn

• Implement collision detection and optimize it for mobile devices
• Handle game controls via touch, keyboard, mouse and accelerometer input
• Load and playback sound effects and music
• Sign your applications and publish them to different markets
• Use 3rd party modules like the fantomEngine game framework to speed up your game development process
• Store the data of your different game objects effectively in lists, stacks and classes
• Structure your monkey script into separate objects and files so your code is better maintainable
• Save and load application states and load level data from text files

Who this book is for

Do you want to quickly create games deployable to all the major desktop and mobile platforms?, if so look no further. You will learn how to utilize the highly versatile Monkey compiler to create 2d games deployable almost anywhere.