Is it hard to build games? No, at least not with Cocos2D-x, the free, cross-platform framework that makes it easy to create high-performance games in JavaScript. How easy? Come and watch me make a simple, but complete old school platformer in 60 minutes. I will show you how to get started. Installation is the worst part of Cocos2D-x, but it isn't too tough. Then we'll put the app together, running it on my laptop as we go. We will also add music, sound, and show you where to find cheap sources for both. Once our game is running, I will blow your minds by porting the game to both iOS and the web. That's right, one app running on a laptop, an iPhone, and on a web page. As I build, I will talk about all of the things that make Cocos2D-x magical. Things like graphic layers, sprite animation, collision detection, resource management and physics. I'll also demo debugging since bugs are an inevitable part of programming. While made especially for games, you can build any app, which needs to be fast or cross-platform, Please keep in mind, that Cocos2D-x makes it easy for programmers to create games. If you know JavaScript excellent, but you should be okay so long as you know a curly brace language, like C, Java, or C#. If you don't know how to program, take a programming class first.