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    Monkey Game Development
    Monkey Game Development
    Credits
    About the Author
    About the Reviewers
    www.PacktPub.com
    Preface
    1. Monkey—Huh?
    2. Getting to Know your Monkey—a Trip to the Zoo
    3. Game #2, Rocket Commander
    4. Game #3, CometCrusher
    Using a game framework—the fantomEngine
    Game resources
    The game objects
    The basic file structure
    Time for action — create the main source file and its folders
    Open the storage please—the data structure of CometCrusher
    Time for action — creating the data structure
    First changes to the OnCreate method
    Time for action — modifying the OnCreate method
    Detailing the Render process
    Time for action — detailing the OnRender method
    This is a setup—creating the game objects
    Time for action — creating some layers
    Time for action — implementing some stars
    Time for action — setting up the player ship
    Time for action — creating a method to load sounds
    Time for action — creating some game info text objects
    Time for action — adding a title screen
    Time for action — setting up the high score list
    Time for action — create a comet
    Time for action — creating some comets
    Time for action — finalizing the OnCreate method
    We need help—more methods for the Update process
    Time for action — loading a high score list
    Time for action — showing the high score list
    Time for action — the ActivateShield method
    Time for action — determine the time delta
    Time for action — updating the info text
    Time for action — creating a StartNewGame method
    Time for action — spawning some engine particle FX
    Time for action — creating some explosions
    Time for action — spawning some shots
    Time for action — saving the high score list
    Finalizing the OnUpdate method
    Time for action — finalizing the OnUpdate method
    Bring in the action—shaping the engine class
    Time for action — detailing the collision detection
    Time for action — detailing the OnObjectTimer method
    Time for action — detailing the OnObjectUpdate method
    Time for action — detailing the OnLayerUpdate method
    One last thing—creating a FLASH game
    Summary
    5. Game #4, Chain Reaction
    6. Game #5, Balls Out!
    7. Game #6, At The Docks
    8. Game #7, Air Dogs 1942
    9. Game #8, Treasure Chest
    10. Make Some Money for Bananas
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    4. Game #3, CometCrusher > Game resources

    Game resources

    Images, sounds, and other game data files are called resource files. For this game, we will need quite a few. With Monkey, all resource files have to be stored inside a subfolder of your project with a name such as yourGameName.data. For CometCrusher, we will need the following types of resource files:

    • Player ship image
    • Shield image
    • Comet images
    • Bullet image
    • Explosion particle image
    • Background star image
    • Bitmap font image to draw game stats
    • Explosion sound
    • Shot sound

    So, let's go over these different types of resources, and how you could create them.

    Images

    Almost every game needs some graphics. In the initial chapters, we have used graphical primitives such as rectangles, circles, and lines. Monkey can draw these out of the box. For CometCrusher, we will now use images.


      

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