Chapter    6

Learning Gravity, Basic Physics, and Camera Controls: An Angry Birds-like Game, Part I

Unless you spent the past two years on a deserted island, you must have heard about Angry Birds. Angry Birds is one of the biggest success stories among game developers. This small, simple, but very addictive game is a worldwide phenomenon. First released on iOS in 2009, Angry Birds has been downloaded more than 300 million times on multiple platforms and logs more than one million hours of game time each day.

In the next two chapters, I will cover the development of a similar game in GameSalad. Then it will be up to you to find the next Angry Birds success with a game you design with GameSalad.

If you are not familiar with the gameplay, you ...

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