Here’s a quick overview of the different parts of the editor. Your project is created and ready to go! Now let’s start making a game! Welcome to the Cocos Creator editor. Click on the New Project tab, select Empty Project, enter the directory where you want the project to be created (or click Browse to find an existing directory) and finally click the Create button. This is where you would load an existing project, or in our case, we are creating a new one.

You will now be brought to the Dashboard. Once registered and your email address is verified, log in using the email address and password. You will be sent a confirmation email so be sure to use a valid email address. Thankfully the sign-up process is pretty straight forward, simply put in an email address and password. Unfortunately, Cocos Creator requires you to log in, therefore if you haven’t already done so, create an account using the sign-up link. Ticking this will download and install Visual Studio 2017 community, the free version of Visual Studio. This is required when packaging your game for deployment, but not before that. On Windows, you may be prompted to install Visual Studio 2017.

Next select the location where you want Cocos Creator to install, tick the checkbox to agree to the terms and conditions (after carefully reading them and sending them off to your lawyers of course…), then click the Install button. If you get a security warning, you can dismiss it, this is normal. Simply extract the file out to a folder on your machine and run the installer executable. The downloaded file is a zip file containing the installer. Pick the most recent version for your platform of choice, as of writing that’s 1.9.2. It is available for both Windows and Mac OS, sorry Linux developers there is no official download, although there is an unofficial Linux port available here. Getting Started with Cocos CreatorĬocos Creator is available for download at. It provides a full level editor, complete programming API, animation editor, UI widgets, and is completely free to download. Cocos Creator is built on top of the Cocos2d-x open-source game framework and makes it easy to create cross-platform 2D games using the JavaScript and TypeScript programming languages. In this series, we are going to be covering everything you need to know to get started with the Cocos Creator game engine. Welcome to the second ever tutorial series here on.

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