My Talk on Cross platform game development using CocosSharp at XHackers Meetup

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GameDev
CocosSharp
VIDYASAGAR MACHUPALLI
MICROSOFT MVP - GAMES FOR WINDOWS
@IAMVMAC
ABOUT.ME/MSCVIDYASAGAR

2. What is CocosSharp? 2
CocosSharp is a cross-platform
library for building 2D
games.CocosSharp is an open
source library and is built on
top of the MonoGame engine
and the fine work from the
Cocos2D, Cocos2D-x and
Cocos2D-XNA communities.

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Cross Platform and Open Source

4. CCApplicationDelegate 4
 Similar to
UIApplicationDelegate in IOS
 handles application lifecycle
events

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6. CCApplicationDelegate ApplicationDidFinishLaunching
ApplicationDidEnterBackground
ApplicationWillEnterForeground
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• Application
• Scenes
• Layers
• Sprites
• Actions
• Other cool stuff - Particle systems, audio, physics
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Index

8. CCApplication
 Creates and initializes the graphics device
 Sets the application delegate
 Starts the game
var app = new CCApplication ();
app.ApplicationDelegate = new GoneBananasApplicationDelegate ();
app.StartGame ();
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9. Visual Tree/Scene Graph 9
CCScene > CCLayer > CCSprite/CCSpriteBatch

10. CCAction
 Actions perform tasks on nodes
 For example, animating sprites
 Run multiple actions sequentially using CCSequence
 Run multiple actions in parallel using CCSpawn
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11. CCTouch 11
TouchesBegan, TouchesMoved, TouchesEnded, etc

12. Many More…
 CCParallax
 Particle Systems
 Audio
 Physics
 Accelerometer
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13. HAPPY NEW YEAR 13