cocos2d Programming Guide

http://python.cocos2d.org/doc/programming_guide/index.html

The cocos2d Programming Guide provides in-depth documentation for writing applications that use cocos2d. Many topics described here reference the cocos2d API reference, provided separately.

If this is your first time reading about cocos2d, we suggest you start at Writing a cocos2d application .

• Introduction
• Installation, Dependencies and Compatibility
• Writing a cocos2d application
• Basic Concepts
• Actions, Transformations and Effects
• Scenes & Transitions
• Tiled maps
• CocosNodes
• Built-in Python Interpreter
• Default Handlers
• Collision
• Skeletal Animations

• Introduction
• Installation, Dependencies and Compatibility
  • Dependencies
    • most of functionality
    • particles support
    • audio and video support by AVbin
    • audio support by SDL
  • Compatibility
  • Installing
  • Using PYTHONPATH or .pth
• Writing a cocos2d application
  • Hello, World
  • Hello Actions
  • Handling Events
  • Where to next?
• Basic Concepts
  • Scenes
  • Director
  • Layers
  • Sprites
  • Events
    • The pyglet event framework in a pinch
    • Cocos and events
• Actions, Transformations and Effects
  • Actions
  • Basic actions
  • Effects
    • How they work
    • 3D actions
    • Index of grid effects
    • Examples
  • Composition
  • Modifiers
  • Special Actions
  • Creating your own actions
    • Basic Internals
    • Instant Actions
    • Interval Actions
    • Grid Actions
• Scenes & Transitions
  • Using Director’s API
  • Transitions
• Tiled maps
  • Maps
  • The XML File Specification
  • XML file contents
  • Map, Cell and Tile Properties
  • Controlling Map Scrolling
  • Map Queries
  • Rectangular Maps
  • Rectangular Map Collisions
• CocosNodes
  • CocosNode Functionality
    • Parent-child
    • Spatial Placement
    • Going in or out of the active scene
    • Render
    • Time management
    • Automated changes along the time
  • Brief tour of built-in CocosNode subclasses
    • Scene
    • TransitionScene
    • Layer
    • ColorLayer
    • MultiplexLayer
    • ScrollingManager
    • ScrollableLayer
    • RectMapLayer and HexMapLayer
    • InterpreterLayer
    • Sprite
    • ParticleSystems
    • TextElement, Label, HTMLLabel, RichLabel
    • Menu
    • Menu items
    • Creating your CocosNode subclasses
  • CocosNodes Examples
    • Parent-Child examples
    • Spatial Placement snippets
    • Automated changes along the time snippets
• Built-in Python Interpreter
• Default Handlers
• Collision
  • Collision Model
    • Use cases
    • Simplified shapes
    • What an object must comply to be collidable ?
    • The role of collision manager
    • Limitations and weaknesees
    • More details
  • Performance numbers
    • The benchmark
    • Comparing with brute force
    • Shape comparisson
    • Ballpark fps
• Skeletal Animations
  • Creating Skeletons and skins
    • The skeleton file
    • The skin file
    • The skeleton editor
  • Animations
    • The animator editor
    • Playing animations