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Learning Android Game Development

You're reading from Learning Android Game Development A Beginner's guide to developing popular Android games

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785880957

Length 238 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Mobile Game Development

Author (1):

Nikhil Malankar

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Android N and Installation of Android SDK FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Familiar with Android Studio

3. Managing Inputs

4. Creating Sprites and Interactive Objects

5. Adding Animation to Your Game

6. Collision Detection and Basic Artificial Intelligence

7. Adding Boundaries and Using Sprites to Create Explosions

8. Adding an Explosion and Creating a UI

9. Converting Your Game from 2D to 3D

10. Working Further on 3D Game

Summary

In this chapter, you learned a great deal about the various collision techniques as well as multiple artificial intelligence algorithms. We now know how to create collisions based on the Bounding Box Collision technique.

In the next chapter, we will add a ground for our player and understand how we can create explosions based on our collisions.

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Authors (1)

Malankar

Malankar

Nikhil Malankar started his journey into game development in 2011 by founding his company, GameEon, as the CEO, at the age of 17. GameEon has developed over 70+ games, of which 10 are available for download on Play Store and others are distributed worldwide via multiple distribution channels. Currently, he is running his new company--Next Move Digital--as the founder and CEO. Next Move Digital deals in digital media and game development. He has a total experience of 5 years in the field of game development and has worked on technologies such as Pygame (a subset of Python) to create GameEons first game, Kyte - Kite Flying Game, which has over 300,000 downloads on Google Play. He is also familiar with the Unity Game engine and has developed most of the games at GameEon in the same. He has also worked with Unreal Engine 4 to develop Special Ops, a first person shooter game for Android and iOS. He has also developed non-gaming apps and websites for clients. At GameEon, he also worked with multiple clients to develop games for them, and one of the most famous brands he has worked with is m-Indicator. He is also a social media influencer with a big following of his own on Facebook and is extremely passionate about playing games. With Next Move Digital, he aims to work on content creation, distribution, and licensing. He also operates a content website--Tell Me Nothing--under Next Move Digital, which focuses on lighthearted satirical content. His future endeavors with the company include making good-quality games for PC and console platforms. Currently, he is running Next Move Digital, as the Founder and CEO, that focuses on creating digital media content.

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