Haxe Game Development Essentials by McCurdy, Jeremy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Haxe Game Development Essentials

Table of Contents Haxe Game Development Essentials Credits About the Author Acknowledgements About the Reviewers www.PacktPub.com

Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more

Why subscribe? Free access for Packt account holders

Preface

What this book covers What you need for this book Who this book is for Conventions Reader feedback Customer support

Downloading the example code Downloading the color images of this book Errata Piracy Questions

1. Getting Started

What's Haxe?

OpenFL HaxeFlixel

Installation

Installing Haxe OpenFL Setting up an IDE Installing HaxeFlixel

Setting up target platforms

Flash Android iOS Desktop

Hello World

Creating a project Running the project Copying assets Making changes

Summary

2. Building a New Game

The Haxe syntax

Data types and structures Operators Access modifiers Variables Functions The for loops Classes

Setting up a new HaxeFlixel project

Creating the new project The anatomy of our project Changing settings Adding assets

Adding a background and basic UI Making enemies

Creating the enemy class Adding variables Setting up the display Creating the spawn timer

Instantiating enemies and adding interaction

Adding new imports Adding variables Creating instances and adding mouse events

Creating the end screen

Creating the end screen class Adding variables Adding the background and score text

Restarting the level Implementing the game timer

Importing the end screen Adding variables Creating the level timer Creating the timer callback function

Summary

3. Dealing with Menus and Screen Flow

Adding new assets

Changing the default state

Building the splash screen

Adding imports Creating variables Adding sprites Adding instructions Starting the animation sequence Creating the next stage of the sequence Finishing the sequence Navigating back to the game

Updating the level end screen

Adding imports Adding variables Housekeeping Adding the group and setting up the window Adding scores Adding the play again button Showing the best score sprite Creating the animation sequence

Creating the new game HUD

Creating the GameHUD class Adding imports Adding variables Laying things out Changing the score

Adding the new game HUD

Adding imports Adding variables Housekeeping Adding the HUD and enemy group

Summary

4. Delving into Animations and Gameplay

Object pooling Project updates

Adding new assets Updating the project settings

Creating the explosion effects

Creating the class Adding imports Creating variables Setting up Texture Packer data Adding sprites Creating a particle emitter Adding everything to the group Starting the explosion sequence Showing the explosion bulb Showing smoke and completing the animation Preparing for object pooling

Making muzzle flashes

Creating the class Adding imports Creating variables Adding sprites Playing the flash Showing the rings

Updating enemies

Adding imports Adding variables Adding animation Resetting the spawn position Updating the onSpawn function Adding death functionality

Creating projectiles

Creating the class Adding imports Creating variables Displaying the sprite and setting the velocity

Making the player character

Creating the class Adding imports Creating variables Adding animation Making the projectile pool Creating the muzzle flash Starting the shoot timer Shooting projectiles Handling player input Building movement functions Handling player death

Setting health on the HUD

Changing hearts

Adding everything to PlayState

Adding imports Adding variables Cleaning things up Adding the scrolling backdrop Creating and adding the player Creating an explosion object pool Killing enemies Updating the score Detecting collisions Handling collisions between projectiles and enemies Handling collisions between the player and enemies

Summary

5. Adding Sound

Project updates

Adding new assets Updating the project settings

Creating sound constants

Creating the class Creating sound ID constants Creating volume constants

Building the sound manager class

Creating the class Adding imports Implementing the singleton pattern

Adding music

Creating playback functions Calling playback functions

Adding menu sounds

Creating playback functions Calling playback functions

Adding gameplay sounds

Creating variables Creating functions Calling playback functions

Summary

6. Working with Configuration Files

JSON versus XML Project updates

Adding new assets

Understanding the JSON configuration file

A simple example Looking at the JSON format

Building the enemy spawner

Creating the enemy spawner class Adding imports Adding variables Parsing JSON data Populating the pool

Spawning enemies Adding movement patterns to enemies

Adding imports Adding variables Removing old functionality Creating the startPattern function Updating onSpawn and resetSpawn

Updating PlayState

Removing old functionality Using EnemySpawner

Understanding the XML file

Looking at the file's contents

Pulling string data from XML

Building the Strings class Handling XML data Building the StringIDs class

Replacing strings

Updating MenuState Updating GameHUD

Updating LevelEndScreen Summary

7. Deploying to Multiple Platforms

Building for Flash

Deploying to the Web

Building for Windows Building for OS X Building for Android Building for iOS

Xcode setup Setting up a certificate Setting up an App ID Registering a device Creating a provisioning profile Running the game on iOS

Summary

8. What's Next?

Expanding the game

Level-based gameplay Power-ups and collectibles More enemies and bosses

Exploring advanced features

Gamepads Physics Tilemaps

Continuing on with learning resources

Haxe OpenFl HaxeFlixel Community resources

Summary

Index

← Prev
Back
Next →

← Prev
Back
Next →