Category Archives: Developer Tips

Step by Step Guide on How to build your first Slider Puzzle game in Cocos2d for Android – Part 1

Posted on September 13, 2013 by Vykthur

In the previous post about setting up cocos2d for android game development, I showed you how to import the cocos2d project into Eclipse and run the sample code included to give an idea of the capabilities/affordances of the Cocos2d game … Continue reading →

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Google Announces Cloud Challenge! $20,000 is the prize !

Posted on September 6, 2013 by Vykthur

Once again, Google is organizing a Coding Challenge to encourage developers from different regions to use their new Cloud APIs in developing innovative web apps! Suffice it to say, the rewards are COOL. And real too. Finalists from each category … Continue reading →

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Setting up Cocos2D for Android, in Eclipse

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Vykthur

… This post is meant to help you set up your first Cocos2D Android Project. Note : The Cocos2D for Android project using in my tutorials are a JAVA port of the Cocos2d-x project written in C/C++ . If you … Continue reading →

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Game Development Using Cocos2d on Android – An Introduction

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Vykthur

… This post is meant to introduce you to game engines and developing 2D games on Android using the Cocos2D Game Engine. Why you should use game engines .. Gaming engines are software frameworks which provide/simplify repeated used features in … Continue reading →

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