Chapter 1. A Colorful Start

We start the journey of game development in Cocos2d-x with a simple, fun, and colorful game. Let's call it ColourSmash. This will serve as a revision of the basic features of the engine and will get us started with some fun development. We will be using the HTML5 version of Cocos2d for this project—Cocos2d-html5-v2.2.3 to be specific. So all the coding in this chapter, and the next, will be done in JavaScript.

Here's what you'll learn in this chapter:

• How and where to use cc.Scene and cc.Layer
• How to optimize rendering with a batch node
• How to use actions and easing
• How to get touches
• How to schedule callbacks