mobilegamedev

CoderDojo Mobile Game Development Course

In this course we are going to create a game called Jumpy, it will should you now create a simple but awesome action game that will enable you create any mobile game you want.

In this course we will show you how to get your first game buid in hours, on IPhone or Android devices. Then its up to you to start creating and dont stop.

Getting started with developing with mobile development is alot of fun is and in this project I will get up and running quickly so can start developing.

Install Node.js

Go to https://nodejs.org/en/ and Install Node on your laptop

Install and Setup Cordova

Its time to open your terminal and we have got some installation and setup to do.

Firstly, lets install cordova by running

sudo npm install -g cordova

Create your Cordova Project

You add the package name in our case org.coolestprojects.projects and we will call our project Jumpy

cordova create mobilegamedev org.coolestprojects.projects Jumpy Now on the command prompt move into the directory

cd mobilegamedev

You now need to setup your projects for ios (IPhone dev) by running the following command.

cordova platform add ios 

Or to setup for Android run

cordova platform add android 

References

https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/4.0.0/guide_cli_index.md.html https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/4.0.0/guide_platforms_ios_index.md.html https://cordova.apache.org/docs/en/2.5.0/guide_getting-started_ios_index.md.html