Cocos2d for XNA 0.1.1 release

Download¶

http://cocos2d-x.googlecode.com/files/cocos2d-x-for-xna-0.1.1.rar

Changelog¶

Bug #1153 The isBlendadditive attribute has affected other sprites
Bug #1154 The single particle can't rotate
Bug #1049 CCMenuItemToggle will grow large after quick clicking
Bug #1048 ccBlendFunc doesn't work
Bug #1021 It's invalid to set color of cclayercolor
Bug #1012 it crashes when using the plist created by Particle Designer
Bug #1013 in the parser of CCTMXTiledMap, MapSize and TileSize are the same
Bug #1016 CCMenu::menuWithItem will cause crash
Bug #989 The particle turns black when it expires
Feature Part of scene transitions
Feature Part of effects

Cocos2d-x Devcon was successfully held in Beijing

On 31st of March, the fourth CocoaChina Developer Conference and Cocos2D-X Technical Seminar were successfully held in Beijing. This year's Devcon focuses on technical part of the open source game engine Cocos2D-X. Speakers including the father of Cocos2D Ricardo Quesada, Cocos2D-X founder Walzer, Chukong Inc. CEO Haozhi Chen, CocoaChina founder Guanqun Liu, Net Dragon Product Manager Jianfeng Zou and many more experts in the industry participated in this event. Dozens of high profile industry leaders including from Google, Intel, Microsoft and around 1000 developers attended the event, some are even from outside China.

The opening addresser Haozhi Chen the CEO of Chukong Inc. shared their stories and experience on developing their game "Fishing Joy" with Cocos2D-X. "Fishing Joy" were downloaded and installed 61.5million times, with 4.5million daily active players.

Ricardo Quesada then shared his vision in "Cocos2D Past, Present and Future". The Past revealed the whole story behind the open source game engine and its community. The Cocos2D leader shows that there are about 3500 apps released based on Cocos2D and also the Cocos2D game engine family tree. The Future we see that there are bunch of tools lined up in 2012, such as the WYSIWYG editor CocosBuilder. On top of that, there are more feature in progress such as Javascript binding for both Cocos2D-x and Cocos2D-iphone, which will ease your game development, and same piece of code will work on 2 branches. Lastly the widely anticipated HTML5 version of Cocos2D also in the work.

Video of Ricardo's presentation is available here

Afterwards Walzer presented the "Stories of Cocos2D-X Communitiy", unveils that there are over 100million games downloaded that were developed using Cocos2D-X. The development of Cocos2D-X were split between "Coverage" and "Depth". Coverage signifies better support for more platforms; Depth represents more features such as Javascript and LUA binding, OpenGL ES 2.0 & DirectX 11 etc. Walzer also explained how to participate and contribute to Cocos2d-X community, and announced assets portal on Cocos2D-X website where everyone can contribute plugins, tutorials and subset features. The planed schedule is April: Cocos2D-X 2.0 Stable release & CocosBuilder Support, May: Cocos2D-HTML5 alpha. Walzer showed a Tetris demo that the same javascript source code can run on top of cocos2d-x + javascript binding on iOS, and on top of cocos2d-html5 in Chrome. That means sooner or later, you can write cocos2d game once in javascript, and pack it in native way, or run it in the browser.

Next, engineer of Google Kun Hu explained why Google have chosen to be the sponsor Cocos2D-HTML5 framework. Cocos2D-X core developer Sean Lin introduced Cocos2D-HTML5 framework and important features. The highlight of the show is when Sean demonstrated a stress test of early Cocos2D-HTML5 build, where 1000 sprites smoothly moves and crowded the screen in Google Chrome while still maintaining around 30 FPS, all this is inside a no hardware acceleration canvas2d environment.

Then, engineer of Microsoft Tory Xu and Cocos2D-X core developer Minggo Zhang introduced Cocos2D-XNA. Minggo talked about the connection between Cocos2D-XNA and Cocos2D-X, the features of Cocos2D-XNA, and how to port existing games to Cocos2D-XNA.

“Growing up with the open source Community”, Jianfeng Zou from NetDragon talked about Cocos2D-X optimizations and tools made by Netdragon. For example, the Mac port, which is submitted to merge with Cocos2D-X; the Texture Memory Inspector, which will help optimizing texture memory usage, and is about to be submitted to the open source community. NetDragon has also made many more tools such as protocol generator, AnimationEditor, Lua script binding. NetDragon have also made their own version of cocos2d-x with LUA on windows phone 7.

In addition to those speakers, there were many more guest speakers shared their stories and experience in developing multiplatform game with Cocos2D-X. Xuxin Zhang the CTO of Nebula shared their story behind "Crazy Castle" development with Cocos2D-X; Zhimeng Wang the senior engineer of IM2.0 shared their story behind "Funny Sango TD development with Cocos2D-X; Zhendong Wang the COO of AStepGame shared their experience in porting the game "Three Kingdoms TD: Legend of Shu" to Cocos2D-X; David Liu the CEO of RedAtoms shows the audience "Multiplatform Game Development using Cocos2D-x"

The Fourth CocoaChina Devcon lasted the whole day, provided rich opportunity for Cocos2D community to share their experiences and knowledges. It is also successful for industry insight and marketing experiences.

Almost 200 media reporting the whole event. Netease and CSDN have also created their special event site:
Netease: http://tech.163.com/special/2012cocoachina/
CSDN: http://subject.csdn.net/cocoachina2012/

You can download keynotes of all sessions from

http://cocos2d-presentations.googlecode.com/files/Cocos2dDevconChina-20120331.zip
Ricardo Quesada also shared his presentation and photos at
http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/archives/1866

cocos2d-1.0.1-x-0.13.0-beta release

Added by Minggo Zhang about 1 month ago (4 comments)

Download¶

cocos2d-1.0.1-x-0.13.0-beta.zip

Attention¶

Please use ndk-r7b to build android native codes.

Primary features¶

support new ipad
simplify Android.mk written
accelerometer simulation for iOS simulator
play background music and effect from sdcard or other path

New documents¶

Supporting Documentation for Using Accelerometer in iOS Simulator

Changelog¶

all platforms
- Bug #1009: fix a typo error in CCNode::setSkewY() and CCNode::getSkewY()
- Feature #1022: add a static method named CCString::stringWithContentsOfFile()
- Feature #1072: make CCLabelBMFont support alignment
- Refactor #737: Delete CCTouch::m_nViewId
iOS
- Bug #1076: fix wrong logging message in CCFileUtils
- Feature #1033: add support files for Accelerometer Simulation for iPhone Simulator
- Feature #1089: add support for new ipad
android
- Feature #721: support putting audio resource not only under Resources
- Refactor #1061: use JNI Helper in CocosDenshion
- Refactor #1069: make build dependencies from official repos and from sources
blackberry
- Feature #1015: add CCEGLView::EventHandler class and window group id for CCEGLView
marmalade
- Bug #626: fix a but that application doesn't terminate on exit
win32
- Bug #1014: fix a bug that "Resources" path in build-win32.bat are error
- Bug #1020: fix a bug that can not create vs template with lua support
- Refactor #1017: improve win32 timing accuracy
lua
- Bug #1058: fix a bug that CCLuaEngine to call CCTouch::locationInView () use not exist parameter view id
- Bug #1074: executeFunctionByHandler() not remove parameters from stack, after pushFunctionByHandler() failed
- Bug #1075: invalid C++ class register order
- Refactor #1030: rename executeFunctionByRefId() to executeFunctionByHandler() and add some lua support functions
linux
- Bug #1028: fix a bug that linux makefile uses wrong directory name of CocosDenshion
- Refactor #1051: fix and improve building on linux
- Refactor #1068: use fontconfig of CCImage::initWithString

Cocos2d-x Devcon will be held in Beijing on 31st March

Added by Walzer Wang about 1 month ago (4 comments)

On 31st March, the 4th CocoaChina Devcon and Cocos2D-X technical seminar will be held in the Beijing Theater. Ricardo Quesada, the father of Cocos2d, will land in Beijing and will be speaking on this event. From inside China, Haozhi Chen the CEO of Chukong Inc. Beijing, Walzer Wang the founder of Cocos2D-X, Jianfeng Zou the product director of NetDragon Websoft Inc. and many more well known game developers and publishers will be attending the event to share insightful experience and secrets in developing games with Cocos2D-X. The ticket price of this year's event will be reduced from 288RMB to 100RMB, book now to receive free bonus gifts!

The official website of CocoaChina Devcon was launched in early this March, you can now get latest information on the event from the official website. You can also securely book online through one of the many payment gateways. You will receive comfirmation after payment process including your seat number and other related information in email, you then only need to bring your ID to gain access to the venue.

Since the launch of the offcial website, we have received over 500 bookings online, estimation puts final figure at 1000 bookings, and tickets will be sold out before or during the weekend. Book online now to receive free gifts including Cocos2D-X limited edition coat, Cocos2D-X booklet and a disc containing all the contents from the event. Log on to the offcial website to find out more at: http://devcon.cocoachina.com

This year's event will focus on Cocos2D-X game development. At the same time, it is also a great networking chance for you to meet people around the game industry. Dozens of high profile industry leaders will be attending the devcon including Google, Intel and Microsoft. Dozens of high profile iOS app experts and developers from China will also be speaking, topics covering technical part of Cocos2D-X engine, and the future of mobile and online gaming to give you direction and inspiration. The event will be also providing rich networking opportunity to meet and collaborate with many iOS app developers and teams, and creates the opportunity of joint venture and venture capital.

About CocoaChina¶

CocoaChina is the first and biggest iOS app development community for Chinese developers around the world. The website provide complete and latest insight information in app development, information and services, with the moto "obtain, solve, share" that strengthens communication activities and sharing. CocoaChina strongly believes that with everyone's participation, there will be no limit in knowledge sharing.

About Chukong Inc. Beijing¶

Chukong Inc. Beijing, founded in early 2010, focuses on rapid growing market of mobile apps and games. With the biggest Chinese IOS app development website and many top selling and ranking apps under its flag, it has funded into the most promising and also the most used cross platform game engine: Cocos2D-X. As the end of February, the game "Fishing Joy" which was developed in-house have being downloaded and installed 53 million times, with over 5 million active players, it is the most popular mobile game made in China.

Cocos2d-x Session on GDC2012

Added by Walzer Wang 2 months ago (12 comments)

In the last week, I had a nice trip in SanFrancisco.

1. Discussion of Cocos2d Roadmap¶

Firstly, I met Ricardo Quesada, the leader of cocos2d, with Rolando Abarca and Surith. After discussion, we made long-term goal clearly, and will work seamlessly together, to enhance cocos2d to a framework with more powerful, popular, and of course: easy to use.

From left to right, Rolando Abarca (funkaster), Ricardo Quesada (Riq), Zhe Wang (Walzer)

2. Cocos2d-x Session on GDC2012¶

On Mar 8th, cocos2d-x session on GDC2012 is very successful.

Glad to met cocos2d-iphone/-x developers from different countries, and shared our growth, our vision of cocos2d open source project with audience.

3. Download all-in-one zipball of GDC presentations¶

http://cocos2d-presentations.googlecode.com/files/GDC2012-walzer.zip
This zip ball involves

Keynote on cocos2d-x presentation
Tweejump demo, how to easily port it from win32 to iOS and Android
Tetris in JS. This is the first time we disclose the javascript binding of cocos2d-x.
WARNING: JavaScriptCore is licensed with LGPL, so on iOS, you can only play with it, but had better not to distribute your game with it, unless you are ready to open your c++/objc sources in your game.

Turn your tunes on, cocos2d-iphone/-x will work together in the future, and bring more surprise to everyone