How to start a new Cocos2d-x game for version 3.0

This documentation will show you how to use Cocos console to create and run a new project.

Runtime requirements

• Android 2.3 +
• IOS 5.0 +
• OS X 10.7 +
• Windows 7 +
• Ubuntu 12.04 +
• Cocos2d-x V3.0 +

Software requirements

• Xcode 4.6 (for iOS or Mac)
• GCC 4.7 For Linux or android. for Android ndk-r9 or newer is required.
• Visual Studio 2012 (for Windows)
• Python 2.7.5

Create a new project

$ cd cocos2d-x$ ./setup.py$ source ~/.bash_profile # may be ~/.bash_login or ~/.profile, depends on your environemnt$ cocos new MyGame -p com.MyCompany.MyGame -l cpp -d ~/MyCompany

• MyGame: Name of your project
• -p com.MyCompany.MyGame: Package name for Android
• -l cpp: Programming language used for the project, valid value iscppAndlua
• -d ~/MyCompany: Directory to hold your project

Folder structure of the generated project is as following:

(Note: The directory may be different when the project type is Lua .)

Build and run new project

$ cocos run -s ~/MyCompany/MyGame -p ios

• -s: Directory of the new project. This cocould be an absolute path or a relative path.
• -p: Which platform to run on. Options areios,android,win32,macAndlinux.

(Note: You are a tmux user, you shoshould addreattach-to-user-namespaceBefore the commandcocos. For more information, please refer to this link for more information .)

You can runcocos run --helpFor more detail information.

How to start a new Cocos2d-x game for version 3.0