The Completest Cocos2d-x Tutorial & Guide List [closed]

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I'm developing a game using Cocos2d-x to Android and iPhone. At the beggining, I had a lot of problems to start using this library, so, in this question, I want to collect all basic, medium and expert tutorials because there are a lot of info questions doing the same mistakes. When I Started, I had to look a lot in many sites using my friend Google. Hope this helps people start now. All in c++.

Beginners

Official wiki links
How to start in multi-platform HERE The best one. Amazing, XCODE (MAC) and ECLIPSE (LINUX) tutorial.
A simple guide to Start
Another multi-platform Guide
Awesome guide to start programming on Eclipse + Android and DEBUG, thanks to Marcio Andrey
Another way to integrate cocos2d-x on Android
Social Example, Facebook + email + Twitter on iOS and Android HERE

Medium

Scrolling scenes. Using CCParallaxNode. Space game example
InfiniteParadax Class Here, to repeat same backgrounds all time.
Slider code HERE the video.
Split screen using 2 layers Here
Sharped Label TTF, Better labels

ADVANCED

Integrating OpenFeint with cocos2d-x. I only found This example, Here more details.
Archievement on GameCenter. Here

Extensions

I have not tested all, but work fine walzer's Extensions
MarkusPfundstein's extensions
DualFace extensions, actually in development

Code Examples

Clawoo examples
Simple Game 1
Simple Game 1 - part 2
Simple Game 1 - part 3
BreakOut
Pong
Cute a pult
TileBased game
Asteroids
Bada.com
Ballon Ride
Demo and links collection
supersuraccoon-cocos2d demos (Not all C++)
supersuraccoon-cocos2d links collection
Another code example: Tiny Wings Remake on Android using Cocos2d-X

TIPS

Audio format Supported
If you use Linux, please, don't use cocos2d-android or cocos2d-android-1, is decreated. Try to use cocos2d-x
If you use Linux, and don't know how to use native code, Take a look in development
CCLOG("String"); Don't work on Eclipse log cat, but CCLog do it!
Max textures size/resolution Here
Iphone use RETINA to draw textures in HD, but don't are used on Android. My solution is use RETINA on iphone, and setscale compiling only in Android. Multi-resolution Wiki. In Example:

    #if (CC_TARGET_PLATFORM == CC_PLATFORM_ANDROID)
    this->setObjectScale(1);
    #endif  // CC_PLATFORM_IOS

Your first example must be the official on the WIKI

** OFFICIAL PAGE COCOS2D-X **

What will need this question?

XML Tutorial, i have nothing in this area. Actually, i'm working in some code. I will do a Tutorial. The library can be use is libxml2
Creating menus example
Slider menu example
Gestures class don´t implemented yet

If you have problems, use tag Cocos2d-x in Stackoverflow, and I will try to help you.

I have already read the FAQ but 90 % of questions cocos2d/android related present the same problem, using obsolete libraries. I just want help people to start using cocos2d-x. All additional info will be Welcome.

Boccherini answered 22/5, 2012 at 22:27 Comment(8)

@jptsetung, i´m looking for the completest guide to use cocos2d-x, because is very difficult to start using it without help. So, i´m looking people to answer this question. Take a look here -> blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/… – Boccherini 11/6, 2012 at 11:27

You should make this question community wiki, so that we can add this in FAQ. – Cyrillus 9/7, 2012 at 7:5

I need to know how to read xml files. is the any tutorial yet? – Feria 31/7, 2012 at 6:41

Cocos2d-x is going to change the library to read XML, im waiting to prepare 1 tutorial – Boccherini 31/7, 2012 at 6:59

@Piperoman: have you seen the Paralaxer Cocos2d-X example game project? – Cockhorse 21/9, 2012 at 15:28

Yes, it was released 1 month ago. But is too expensive to buy source :D – Boccherini 21/9, 2012 at 15:29

@Fugogugo: Cocos2d-X does have built-in XML support to read files on the Android platform and parse property lists. However, it's not something they've simplified, exported, or made available to use in your game's code. I highly recommend using TinyXML2 to read your XML files. – Cockhorse 21/9, 2012 at 15:30

Meta question about this question here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155531/… – Illinois 13/11, 2012 at 13:22

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Here you got complementaries discussions about the topic, it can be interesting.

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Christianchristiana answered 28/5, 2012 at 11:45 Comment(1)

Recommended :raywenderlich.com/11283/… – Diminuendo 15/8, 2012 at 9:54

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Another code example: Tiny Wings Remake on Android using Cocos2d-X

Subkingdom answered 11/6, 2012 at 2:2 Comment(0)