The previous post concluded the setup of the infrastructure for the navigation logic of the game. This post will focus on adding some aesthetics to the game in preparation for posts detailing what is involved in integrating game cycle logic into the game. For this post, we will add some repeated animations to the game layer, as well as some background graphics. This will be a post that will show you some of the basic animation and rendering capabilities of cocos2d.

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In part I of this post, we discussed how to layout the basic structure for the game’s navigation logic. We covered how to transition from scene to scene (for example: from the main menu to the settings and vice versa). In this tutorial, we will cover transitioning to the game scene…he we go! Continue reading →

Previously, we introduced the director object and scene transitions. In this post, we will focus on how to configure the main menu for the game.

Debugging

Before creating the files for the main menu, we need to perform some additional setup. We are going to create a utility file. We will place all global variables, constants and debugging Continue reading →