Steffen Itterheim - Learn cocos2d 2: Game Development for iOS

Learn cocos2D 2

Steffen Itterheim

Andreas Lw

Learn cocos2D 2

Copyright 2012 by Steffen Itterheim and Andreas Lw

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To Gabi, the one and only space ant.
Sometimes alien, often antsy, always loved.

Steffen

To Saskia & Renate for making it possible to
spend my time with things I love most.

Andreas

Contents at a Glance

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About the Authors

Steffen Itterheim has been a game development enthusiast since the early 1990s. His work in the Doom and Duke Nukem 3D communities landed him his first freelance job as a beta tester for 3D Realms. He hasbeen a professional game developer for more than a decade, having worked most of his career as a game play and tools programmer for Electronic Arts Phenomic. His first contact with cocos2d was in 2009, when he cofounded an aspiring iOS games start-up company called Fun Armada. He loves to teach and enable other game developers so that they can work smarter, not harder. Occasionally youll find him strolling around in the lush vineyards near his domicile at daytime, and the desert of Nevada at night, collecting bottle caps.