Come join the NSCoderTO group and learn the open-source cocos2d framework in a group setting! We'll be following along with the book Learning Cocos2D by Rod Strougo and Ray Wenderlich.

Proposed schedule:

Weeks 1 and 2 – Jan 28th – Feb 10th

• Chapters 1–2
• Hello Cocos2D
• Hello Space Viking

Meetup 1 (February 12th)

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Week 3 Feb 11th – Feb 17th

• Chapter 3
• Animations and Actions

Week 4 Feb 18th – Feb 24th

• Chapter 4
• Collision Detection and the First Enemy

Meetup 2 (February 26th)

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Week 5 Feb 25th – Mar 3rd

• Chapter 5

• Actions, Effects, Cocos2D scheduler

• Chapter 6

• Texts and Fonts

Meetup 3 (March 12th)

Meetup details to come!

The future...

• Chapter 7

• Main Menu, Level Completed, Credits

• Chapter 8

• Pump Up the Volume! (audio)

• Chapter 9

• Adding Scrolling

• Chapter 10

• Basic Game Physics (Box2D)

• Chapter 11

• Intermediate Physics (Box2D)

• Chapter 12

• Advanced Physics (Box2D)

• Chapter 13

• The Chipmunk Physics Engine

• Chapters 14 + 16

• Particle Systems

• Performance Optimizations

• Chapter 15

• Game Centre