Welcome to Part 5 of this Tutorial Series. You will find the completed source for this tutorial in the project named CocosTsGame on the GitHub repository. We we are going to create our first Cocos2d-x JS scene. Common use for scenes within Cocos2d-x JS is to treat them as the distinct areas or pages (or screens) of …
Discussion and direction I have decided that for the remainder of this series, we are going to build a simple tap to shoot 2d game. Our main focus will be on building the underlying TypeScript based architecture for Cocos2d-x JS, but I thought that we might as well make it fun. We are going to use …
Merging our TypeScript project with Cocos2d-x JS If you followed the preliminary steps in part 1 of this tutorial series you should already have Cocos2d-x installed and ready to go. If not please download from here, and refer to the Cocos2d-x command line guide here. The version of Cocos2d-x used in this tutorial is 3.14 …
Back in part 1 of this tutorial, we set up a simple hello world project for TypeScript development. We briefly discussed the use of namespaces and triple-slash directives as a way to avoid dependencies on external module loading. The aim is to ensure compatibility with Cocos2d-x JSB by avoiding the use of external modules due to …
This is part 1 of the tutorial series Getting Started with TypeScript and Cocos2d-x Goals: When dealing with multi-platform games, we need code that will work within both the browser and the Cocos2d-x jsb engine Ideally, we want all of our TypeScript to be compiled into a simple uglified and minified js file We want to …