Chapter 9. Creating Your Own Blockbuster Game – A Complete Match 3 Game

This is the last chapter of this book, and I really hope you have enjoyed reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. When I drafted the initial outline for this book, I planned to dedicate the last chapter to a Match 3 game such as Candy Crush Saga or Farm Heroes Saga.

I then realized that there are tons of tutorials about these games available around the Web. Hence, I decided to show y'all something new, the engine of the Dungeon Raid game (available at https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dungeon-raid/id403090531), which I adapted to create Globez (available at http://www.mindjolt.com/globez.html), a game that has been played millions of times.

During the making of this game, you will not only use most of the concepts described in this book in the creation of a real game engine, but you will also learn the bare bones of the Cocos2d-JS drawing API.

Follow the steps carefully; this is a complete game engine, and there's a lot...