Roger Engelbert - Cocos2d-X by Example Beginners Guide

Roger Engelbert is a game developer with over ten years of experience in developing online games. He grew up surrounded by video games and thinks of classic, 8-bit arcade titles as a form of art. He is the author behind the blog Done With Computers , which is chock-full of tutorials on game development and design. Roger sincerely hopes to soon live in a world where people of all ages will be given the knowledge and opportunity to experience the joy of building their own games.

I would like to thank the people from Packt Publishing who helped me through the process of writing this book. And above all, my family, who lovingly accepted my, "Sorry, I can't do that, I'm writing a book" as an excuse to avoid every task and chore imaginable. (I wonder how long I can keep giving that excuse now that the book has been published...)

Fabio Cunha began web development about three years ago and worked as a mobile developer for two years. He currently works as a frontend developer in an e-learning company. He has his own blog (http://www.fabiosistemas.com.br/blog/) that describes all of the work that he does, and has published games on mobile platforms such as Android, iOS, and Blackberry.

I would like to thank my mother, brother, and sister for always supporting me, my dad for teaching me to be a calmer person, and my girlfriend for always staying by my side.

Stelios Pallis is 25 years old and lives in Cyprus. He studied Computer Science at the University of Cyprus (UCY), and at the moment he is a postgraduate student there. In 2011, he started developing games, and as a fanatic gamer he loved developing games. In 2012, he founded a startup company called Gamethru, a company for developing mobiles games.

Gamethru has already published four mobile games; three are available in Google Play Store and one in App Store.

Marcio Valenzuela P is a biochemist who has studied programming as a hobby for over 12 years. He is perseverant, autodidactic, and is always looking into the latest technologies. Marcio started by picking up ASP back in the early 90's as Chief Web Developer for a consulting firm that developed web applications for private companies. He also delved into PHP applications with a MySQL database backend. Then, in 2008, he started on his path down iOS and has had experience in developing applications and games for the platform. His experience is mostly in business applications where there exists a cloud-based web service to interact with, and more recently, in games created in Cocos2d.

Marcio is the co-founder of Activasolutions.com and currently runs a small iOS project called Santiapps.com, which programs for companies wishing to enter the iOS platform. Marcio is a forum moderator at RayWenderlich.com.

I would like to acknowledge the time I have taken from raising my son to dedicate to this book. I just hope that someday Santiago follows in the programming tradition as it fosters critical skills such as problem-solving and innovation, which is something we share.