Cocos Creator: A Journey into TS Game Development for Beginners

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Overview of Cocos Creator as a TypeScript-friendly game engine, comparing its pros and cons with Unity and Unreal. Shows how to get started with Cocos Creator and builds a first project: a Flappy Bird–style game (repository: https://github.com/iddqdPro/flappybat).

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 5:04Cocos Creator
3. 8:16New project setup
4. 10:06Project structure
5. 11:56Physics and colliders
6. 13:02Game input manager
7. 17:29Wings flapping animation
8. 18:32Creating obstacles
9. 23:29Moving obstacles
10. 26:58Destroying collisions
11. 29:48Score system
12. 31:58Score sensors
13. 35:31Game over screen
14. 39:08Main menu
15. 40:54Menu buttons
16. 42:46Final testing
17. 45:39Build for platforms
18. 46:43Q&A

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