Chapter    2

Your First Game from Scratch: The Pong Game

Now that you have properly set up your environment, let’s use GameSalad to create a real game. In this chapter, I will guide you through the creation of a complete game: Pong. This chapter covers the basics of GameSalad; the next chapter covers a few more features of the game.

This chapter specifically covers:

  • GameSalad project creation
  • Creating scenes, actors, attributes, and behaviors
  • An introduction to collision

To have a look at what you will achieve in this chapter, you can open the file MyFirstPong_step6.gameproj, which is located in the Chapter_1_File folder at www.apress.com. Opening this file will launch GameSalad. Then you simply need to hit the Preview button in GameSalad. ...

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