Haxe Game Development Essentials
F re e S a m p le Community Experience Distilled Haxe Game Development Essentials Create games on multiple platforms from a single codebase using Haxe and the HaxeFlixel engine Jeremy McCurdy In this package, you will find: The author biography A preview chapter from the book, Chapter 1 'Getting Started' A synopsis of the book’s content More information on Haxe Game Development Essentials About the Author Jeremy McCurdy is a game developer who has been making games using ActionScript, C#, and Haxe for over four years. He has developed games targeted at iOS, Android, Windows, OS X, Flash, and HTML5. He has worked on games that have had millions of gameplay sessions, and has built games for many major North American television networks. He is the games technical lead at REDspace, an award-winning interactive studio that has worked for some of the world's largest brands. They are located in Nova Scotia, Canada, and have been building awesome experiences for 15 years. Preface Developing games that can reach a wide audience can often be a serious challenge. A big part of the problem is fi guring out how to make a game that will work on a wide range of hardware and operating systems. This is where Haxe comes in. Over the course of this book, we'll look at getting started with Haxe and the HaxeFlixel game engine, build a side-scrolling shooter game that covers the core features you need to know, and prepare the game for deployment to multiple platforms. After completing this book, you will have the skills you need to start producing your own cross-platform Haxe-driven games! What this book covers Chapter 1, Getting Started, explains setting up the Haxe and HaxeFlixel development environment and doing a quick Hello World example to ensure that everything is working.
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