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Learning LibGDX Game Development- Second Edition

You're reading from Learning LibGDX Game Development- Second Edition Wield the power of the LibGDX framework to create a cross-platform game

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781783554775

Length 478 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

LibGDX

Concepts

3D Game Development

Authors (2):

Suryakumar B Nair

Andreas Oehlke

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to LibGDX and Project Setup FREE CHAPTER

2. Cross-platform Development – Build Once, Deploy Anywhere

3. Configuring the Game

4. Gathering Resources

5. Making a Scene

6. Adding the Actors

7. Menus and Options

8. Special Effects

9. Screen Transitions

10. Managing the Music and Sound Effects

11. Advanced Programming Techniques

12. Animations

13. Basic 3D Programming

14. Bullet Physics

Index

LibGDX backends

LibGDX makes use of several other libraries to interface the specifics of each platform in order to provide cross-platform support for your applications. Generally, a backend is what enables LibgGDX to access the corresponding platform functionalities when one of the abstracted (platform-independent) LibGDX methods is called; for example, drawing an image in the upper-left corner of the screen, playing a sound file at a volume of 80 percent, or reading and writing from/to a file.

LibGDX currently provides the following four backends:

Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL)
Android
JavaScript/WebGL
iOS/RoboVM

Lightweight Java Game Library

Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is an open source Java library originally started by Caspian Rychlik-Prince to ease game development in terms of accessing the hardware resources on desktop systems. In LibGDX, LWJGL is used for the desktop backend to support all the major desktop operating systems, such as Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.

Lightweight Java Game Library

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Authors (2)

Suryakumar B Nair

Suryakumar B Nair

Suryakumar Balakrishnan Nair is an engineering graduate from Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India with a specialization in computer science. He just loves programming and likes to keep on experimenting.He has designed a dozen games on the Android platform using LibGDX. He loves traveling and visiting various places. He reads articles and books on a range of issues from politics to environment. He is currently working as a full-time Android game developer for an Indian game company, Csharks (http://csharks.com/site/).

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Andreas Oehlke

Andreas Oehlke

Andreas Oehlke is a professional software engineer and a computer scientist who feels very much at home on any Linux/Unix machine. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and loves to assemble and disassemble software and hardware alike. An exorbitant affinity for electronics and computers has always been his trademark. His hobbies include game and web development, programming in general (software design and new languages), programming embedded systems with microcontrollers, playing sports, and making music. He currently works full-time as a software engineer for a German financial institution. Furthermore, he has worked as a consultant and a game developer in San Francisco, CA. In his spare time, he provides his expertise to a German startup called Gamerald (http://www.gamerald.com/).

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