Game Development Reference
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Chapter
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
. O
pening this file will launch GameSalad. Then you simply need
to hit the Preview button in GameSalad.
A Little Bit of History About Pong
The seventies saw the birth of the video game industry. Pong showed the path
to many other game developers. Of course, the technology was not advanced
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