Monkey Game Development: Beginner's Guide

Table of Contents

Monkey Game Development Beginner's Guide

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

Who this book is for

Conventions

Time for action – heading

What just happened?

Have a go hero – heading

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Monkey—Huh?

Game development for the rest of us

Cross-platform development

Compiler or translator?

The Monkey toolbox

Time for action – installing Monkey

Please welcome… Monk

MSERVER—Monkey's own web server

What just happened?

Let's have a little playtime

Time for action – playing Pirate TriPeaks

What just happened

Time for action – playing Surviball

What just happened?

Playing to have fun, playing to study

So let's go for something big? No!

The alternative

What just happened?

Time for action – read the manual

What just happened ?

The Trans tool and the supported target platforms

HTML5

FLASH

iOS

Android

XNA

GLFW

The Monkey standard modules

Lang

Lists

Map

Math

Random

Set

Stack

Mojo – The 2D framework/modules

App

Audio

Graphics

Input

Monkey is extendable

Your own modules

Native source code

Third-party modules

Your own targets

Your game is easily portable

Summary

2. Getting to Know your Monkey—a Trip to the Zoo

Call the Monk and start praying—the Monkey IDE

Why learn about Monk?

Starting up Monk

Monk's user interface

The toolbar

The code editor area

The info box

Time for action – opening a sample script

What just happened?

Where is my navi?

Time for action – navigating to the Main() function

What just happened?

Save... save... save!

Time for action – saving a script

What just happened?

Projects—bringing in some organization

Time for action – creating a project

What just happened?

The Monkey programming language

Time for action – Monkey's Hello World

What just happened?

Running your first script in a browser

Our first little game... PONGO

Time for action – the basic structure of your game

Pongo's data structure

Time for action – adding some data fields

Time for action – rendering the game field

Time for action – drawing the ball and the paddles

Time for action – player paddle movement

Time for action – moving the enemy paddles

Time for action – moving the ball

Time for action – controlling the ball with the player's paddle

Time for action – letting the enemy paddles fight back

Time for action – acting on the different game modes

What just happened?

Have a go hero – enhancing the computer AI

Exporting your game as an HTML5 website

One more thing... comment your code!

Summary

3. Game #2, Rocket Commander

The game objects

The basic file structure

Time for action – building the basic file structure of the game

What just happened?

Hold that data—RocketCommander's data structure

Time for action – creating the general data structure of the game

What just happened?

Detailing the Update process

Time for action – detailing the Update process

What just happened?

Detailing the Render process

Time for action – detailing the Render event

What just happened?

Enhancing the OnCreate event

Time for action – detailing the OnCreate process

What just happened?

Let's build some cities

Time for action – building some cities

What just happened?

Implementing the city class into the game

Time for action – changing the gameClasses file

What just happened?

Modifying the RocketCommander class

Time for action – spawning some cities in the game

What just happened?

Rendering the ground and the cities

Time for action – rendering the cities

What just happened?

Get the launchers ready!

Time for action – implementing the rocket launchers

What just happened?

Implementing the launcher class into the game

Time for action – changing the gameClasses file again

What just happened?

Modifying the RocketCommander class

Time for action – creating some launchers in the game

What just happened?

Updating the rocket launchers

Time for action – updating the launchers

What just happened?

Enhancing the UpdateMenu method

Time for action – modifying the menu update process

What just happened?

Rendering our precious rocket launchers

Time for action – rendering the launchers

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Fire! Blast them to pieces!

Time for action – implementing some rockets

What just happened?

Implementing the rocket class into the game

Time for action – modifying the gameClasses file

What just happened?

Modifying the launcher class

Time for action – modifying the launcher class

What just happened?

Updating the rockets

Time for action – updating the rockets

What just happened?

Rendering our furious rockets

Time for action – rendering the rockets

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And it goes BOOM!... Explosions

Time for action – implementing explosions

What just happened?

Implementing the explosion class into the game

Time for action – modifying the gameClasses file

What just happened?

Modifying the rocket class

Time for action – modifying the rocket class

What just happened?

Updating the explosions

Time for action – updating the explosions

What just happened?

Rendering beautiful explosions

Time for action – rendering the explosions

What just happened?

Don't fear the enemy—bombs

Time for action – creating the bomb class

What just happened?

Implementing the bomb class into the game

Time for action – modifying the gameClasses file

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Updating bombs

Time for action – updating the bombs

What just happened?

Rendering beautiful bombs

Time for action – rendering the bombs

What just happened?

Creating new bombs and checking for GameOver conditions, or new level conditions

Time for action – modifying the UpdateGame method

What just happened?

Displaying the game score

Time for action – displaying the game score

What just happened?

Summary

4. Game #3, CometCrusher

Using a game framework—the fantomEngine

Game resources

Images

Sounds

Bitmap fonts

The game objects

Layers

Background stars

Comets

The player ship

The shield

Shots

Particles

Game info text

The basic file structure

Time for action – create the main source file and its folders

What just happened?

Open the storage please—the data structure of Comet-Crusher

Time for action – creating the data structure

What just happened?

First changes to the OnCreate method

Time for action – modifying the OnCreate method

What just happened?

Detailing the Render process

Time for action – detailing the OnRender method

What just happened?

This is a setup—creating the game objects

Group yourself—layers

Time for action – creating some layers

Let them shine—the background stars

Time for action – implementing some stars

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The Hero—creating the player ship

Time for action – setting up the player ship

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Did you hear that—loading sounds

Time for action – creating a method to load sounds

What just happened?

Did you see that score—the game UI

Time for action – creating some game info text objects

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Headlines—adding a title screen

Time for action – adding a title screen

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How good are you—the high score list

Time for action – setting up the high score list

What just happened?

Rocks rocks rocks—fill the space with some comets

Time for action – create a comet

What just happened?

Time for action – creating some comets

What just happened?

Mission complete... finalizing the OnCreate process

Time for action – finalizing the OnCreate method

What just happened?

We need help—more methods for the Update process

Loading and showing the high score list

Time for action – loading a high score list

What just happened?

Time for action – showing the high score list

What just happened?

Activating the shield of the player ship

Time for action – the ActivateShield method

What just happened?

Delta time related movement

Time for action – determine the time delta

What just happened?

Updating the game statistic info text objects

Time for action – updating the info text

What just happened?

Starting a new game

Time for action – creating a StartNewGame method

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Let the engine glow

Time for action – spawning some engine particle FX

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And it goes boom—creating an explosion

Time for action – creating some explosions

What just happened?

Give me that gun—spawning a shot

Time for action – spawning some shots

What just happened?

Save some high scores, will ya!

Time for action – saving the high score list

What just happened?

Finalizing the OnUpdate method

Time for action – finalizing the OnUpdate method

What just happened?

Bring in the action—shaping the engine class

Crack these objects—object collision handling

Time for action – detailing the collision detection

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It's about time—acting on timer events

Time for action – detailing the OnObjectTimer method

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Everything is under control—object update events

Time for action – detailing the OnObjectUpdate method

What just happened?

Did I win—checking the losing conditions with OnLayerUpdate

Time for action – detailing the OnLayerUpdate method

What just happened?

Have a go hero—adding an enemy ship

One last thing—creating a FLASH game

Summary

5. Game #4, Chain Reaction

Modifying the HTML5 canvas size

Time for action – modifying canvas size

Some development basics

Frameworks/modules

Sprite sheets

Content scaling

Touch input

Suspend and Resume events

Animation

Game resources

Game objects

Layers

Title screen

Game background

Atom tiles

Game info text

The basic app structure

Time for action – creating the main source file and its folders

What just happened?

The data storage

Time for action – creating the data structure

What just happened?

First changes to the OnCreate event

Time for action – first changes to the OnCreate method

What just happened?

Detailing the OnRender event

Time for action – detailing the OnRender method

What just happened?

Setting up the game objects

Sound effects

Time for action – loading the game sound effects

What just happened?

Game layers

Time for action – creating layers for the game

What just happened?

Game screen

Click here – Adding buttons

Time for action – creating buttons

What just happened?

The info text objects

Time for action – creating info text objects

What just happened?

The actual game screen

Time for action – composing the game screen

What just happened?

Title screen

Time for action – creating the title screen

What just happened?

Finalizing the OnCreate event

Time for action – finalizing the OnCreate method

What just happened?

Helper functions for the update process

Creating the atom elements

Collision circle objects

Time for action – creating collision circles

What just happened?

Atom elements

Time for action – creating the atom elements

What just happened?

Starting a new game

Time for action – creating a StartNewGame method

What just happened?

Time-related movement

Time for action – implementing the GetDeltaTime method

What just happened?

Updating the info text objects

Time for action – creating a method to update the text information

What just happened?

Detailing the OnUpdate event

Time for action – finalizing the OnUpdate method

What just happened?

Introducing the OnSuspend event

Time for action – modifying the OnSuspend event

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Introducing the OnResume event

Time for action – updating the OnResume method

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The heart of the game - the engine class

What are transitions?

Touch me – acting on touch hits

Time for action – enhancing the OnObjectTouch method

What just happened?

The eagle has landed—a transition is finished

Time for action – detailing the OnObjectTransition method

What just happened?

It's about time—timer events

Time for action – acting on timer events

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Captain! Collision ahead!—doing collision checks

Time for action – detailing the collision detection

What just happened?

Have a go hero – enhancing Chain Reaction

Creating an Android app

Changing icons

Do a name change

Signing an application for the market

Summary

6. Game #5, Balls Out!

Which frameworks and modules are used?

Game resources

Our lovely game objects

Layers

The title screen

Game background

The ball

Enemies

The ball tiles

The basic app structure

Time for action – creating the basic file structure

What just happened?

Modifying the HTML5 canvas size for testing

Time for action – modifying the HTML5 output

The data storage

Time for action – creating the data structure

What just happened?

First changes to the OnCreate event

Time for action – first changes to the OnCreate method

What just happened?

Detailing the OnRender event

Time for action – detailing the OnRender method

What just happened?

Setting up the game objects

Make some noise—sound effects

Time for action – loading the game sound effects

What just happened?

Lay your head on me—the game layers

Time for action – creating layers for the game

What just happened?

Our beloved play field—the background screen

Buttons—I need more text buttons!

Time for action – creating text buttons

What just happened?

The background screen as usual

Time for action – composing the game screen

What just happened?

Give it a name—the title screen

Time for action – creating the title screen

What just happened?

Finalizing the OnCreate event

Time for action – finalizing the OnCreate method

What just happened?

Helper methods for the update process

Creating the tiles

Time for action – creating the tiles

What just happened?

The main actor—creating the ball

Time for action – creating the ball

What just happened?

Have a go hero – Add more player balls

The bad guys—our beloved enemies

Time for action – creating the enemy class

What just happened?

More helper functions

Spawning an enemy

Time for action – spawning an enemy

What just happened?

Starting a new game

Time for action – creating a StartNewGame method

What just happened?

Bring me up-to-date—detailing the OnUpdate event

Time for action – detailing the OnUpdate method

What just happened?

Eye candy—particle effects

The particle emitter class

Time for action – creating the particle emitter class

What just happened?

The last helper method

Time for action – spawning a particle emitter

What just happened?

The heart of the game—the engine class

Touch me—acting on touch hits

Time for action – enhancing the OnObjectTouch method

What just happened?

Controlling the ball—acting on object update events

Time for action – acting on object update events

What just happened?

What's the situation? Layer update events

Time for action – acting on layer update events

What just happened?

We reached our parking position—a transition is done

Time for action – detailing the OnObjectTransition method

What just happened?

Bump bump—checking for collisions

Time for action – detailing the collision detection

What just happened?

Have a go hero – enhancing a chain reaction

Creating an iOS app

Summary

7. Game #6, At The Docks

Frameworks and modules used

Game resources

The game objects

Layers

The default layer

The title screen

Game screen

Wall tiles

Floor tiles

Target tiles

Crate tiles

The player machine

The basic app structure

Time for action – creating the basic file structure

What just happened?

Modifying the HTML5 canvas size for testing

Time for action – modifying the HTML5 output

What just happened?

The storage for our data

Time for action – creating the data structure

What just happened?

Setting up the game objects

Slice over slice—game layers

Time for action – creating layers for the game

What just happened?

The second-most important part—a title screen

Time for action – creating the title screen

What just happened?

Detailing the OnCreate event

Time for action – finalizing the OnCreate method

What just happened?

Some flexible methods for the update process

Lads and gents… the main actor

Time for action – creating the player

What just happened?

The level maps—loading the tiles

Time for action – loading the level tiles

What just happened?

On your marks—starting a new game

Time for action – creating a StartNewGame method

What just happened?

Bring me up-to-date—detailing the OnUpdate event

Time for action – detailing the OnUpdate method

What just happened?

And action!—the engine class

Move it… object updates

Time for action – updating each object

What just happened?

Push push—checking for collisions

Time for action – detailing collision detection

What just happened?

I can't see it anymore—the transition is finished!

Time for action – detailing the OnLayerTransition method

What just happened?

Have a go hero – enhancing At The Docks

Creating a XNA app

Summary

8. Game #7, Air Dogs 1942

Frameworks and modules used

No silver, no gold, but… our game resources!

The game objects

Layers

The title screen

Game background

The player plane

The enemy plane

Bullets

Clouds

Info text

Smoke particles

Explosions

The basic app structure

Time for action – setting up the basic file structure

What just happened?

Storing data

Time for action – creating the data structure

What just happened?

First changes to the OnCreate event

Time for action – first changes to the OnCreate method

What just happened?

Setting up the game objects

Making some noise… sound effects!

Time for action – loading the game sound effects

What just happened?

Lay your head on me… the game layers

Time for action – creating layers for the game

What just happened?

Over high ground—the background screen

Time for action – composing the background screen

What just happened?

Hope it won't rain—creating the clouds

Time for action – creating the clouds

What just happened?

What is going on?—creating info text objects

Time for action – creating info text objects

What just happened?

What are we playing here?—The title/menu screen

Time for action – creating the title screen

What just happened?

Finalizing the OnCreate event