Gideros Mobile Game Development: With Gideros you can develop games for both iOS and Android faster and more simply. This book shows you how with a real-life project you undertake yourself. All that's required is a little familiarity with Lua.

Arturs Sosins

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4.8 (8 Ratings)

eBook Nov 2013 154 pages 1st Edition

Arturs Sosins

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eBook Nov 2013 154 pages 1st Edition

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Develop engaging iOS and Android mobile games quickly and efficiently
Build your very first game following practical and easy-to-understand instructions
Full of code examples and descriptions to help you master the basics of mobile game development

Description

Have you ever had an interesting idea for a mobile game? Have you ever wanted to jump on the mobile app bandwagon? Developing a mobile game has never been so fun and easy, and with the vast amount of smartphone users, it may also become a profitable thing to do. Gideros is a Lua-based framework that facilitates effortless native iOS and Android application development along with hardware acceleration. Gideros also comes with a built-in box2D physics engine and extended memory management features to make mobile game development a breeze. Gideros Mobile Game Development shows you how to develop an original and exciting game in Gideros, helping you create your very first project and guiding you through the configuration of settings and assets to help you target devices with different resolutions. This book teaches you everything you need to know about Gideros, from installing Gideros on your operating system to creating and efficiently managing your Gideros projects and creating your very first game, all with the help of well explained examples. You will learn how to quickly create game prototypes in Gideros, how to test and set up projects to automatically target devices with different resolutions, and how to polish your prototype with animations, sounds, tweens, and even physics to create your very first cross-platform game. By the end of this book, you will have learned everything you need to create visually stunning physics and exciting cross-platform games using Gideros.

Who is this book for?

This book is for developers who are new to mobile game development or who have tried the native development of mobile games and want a simpler, faster tool that can support a wide variety of platforms and devices. Readers are expected to be at least partially familiar with the Lua game scripting language that Gideros uses for its scripts.

What you will learn

Install Gideros and set up one-click, on-device testing
Divide games into logical scenes for proper asset end memory management
Use the built-in physics engine inside Gideros
Implement pack, level, and level progression logic
Manage background music and sound effects
Use tweens and animations
Manage highscores for your players

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Shannon James May 19, 2020

This book does not waste time and gets right to the point. By the third day of reading, taking notes and coding, I felt WAY more comfortable programming with Lua in Gideros Mobile. What may have took me six to eight weeks to stumble upon through frantic Google searches and half baked You Tube videos, this book gave me in about two days! Gideros is a game engine that requires a lot of coding and planning. Not a lot of click and drag development. Bu this book really made it not only easy to understand, but really enjoyable. It answers a lot of questions about implementing classes and OOP logic in Gideros Mobile that I thought would go unanswered. It will give you the foundational knowledge you need to feel confidant about seeking out what more you can make Gideros Mobile do. If you have an idea for a multi platform game and are frustrated in finding a 2d Engine and book to help you fulfill your dreams, you have found the book. This book is an introduction book, not a complete desktop reference. However it will give you so much confidence that you can advance in the language (Lua) and game engine (Gideros) that you will feel emboldened to go on and create your own games. And most notably, all the code works fine. Despite being written about 7 years ago, the code actually goes off without a hiccup. Something I have not experienced yet in any book I have bought on game programming. I have been playing around with different programming languages and game engines for the last 5 years. I have been on the lookout for a game engine and book to help me in my pursuits. I must say that about halfway through most, my interest in them has faded. The books are not very comprehensive and create simple games that do not delve into the deeper aspects of the game engine. I was left with more questions than answers in almost all cases. This book has actually delivered what I wanted. I wish all game programming books took this approach. Hats off to the author. Thanks for a book that finally delivered what I wanted.

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Jason Oakley Dec 04, 2013

Arturs has written a thorough and entertaining book on how to program for the Gideros platform. He elegantly covers all requirements to get you started on the road to making your own mobile games. All aspects of indie programming are covered from graphics to music and physics to managing your scenes. He goes into great detail explaining each section along the way and provides enough examples to help guide you to publishing your own game. Whether you are an absolute beginner or a seasoned professional, if you wish to learn the intricacies of the Gideros platform, this book has it all.Programming games and other applications for mobile platforms can seem very daunting at first. You need to keep in mind the differing platform requirements and App store restrictions. Mobile development needs to cover not only small mobile phones but also the larger tablet sized devices. You need to be able to cover a range of screen resolutions from 320x480 to over 1500x2000. Arturs effectively describes how it is possible to cover these dimensions to give your game the highest quality graphics and the best settings to cover all devices.The third chapter delves into demonstrations of Game Logic and optimising art. You will learn how to pack your textures for memory efficiency and speed as well as creating Level Packs for defining layouts for your game objects.A popular genre of mobile games are physics-enabled games. These include games such as Angry Birds and Mashballs (you will create a clone of this game while learning with this book). Arturs gives you example Lua code for developing your physics game and the caveats you need to be aware of to create your game successfully.You also need to be keenly aware of whether certain devices are touch-only or – in the case of Google’s Android – touch-and-buttons are used for input. Gideros Mobile Game Development covers each of these cases in chapter 4 and shows you how to get the best out of your application.Audio is very important when it comes to game development and sometimes not enough attention is paid to this particular vector when you are beginning your foray into mobile development. This book covers recommendations for audio file formats for background music and sound effects. Utilising the correct formats will ensure your game will be all it can be. Make sure you invest time in finding the best genre of music for your game.To complete your project, you will need to store and recover player high scores and other statistics. This gives your players the ability to compete for better game completion, bonuses and extends the longevity of the gameplay by lettings them try to achieve higher scores. Motivating your players with rewards provides a reason for them to keep coming back to your game.I highly recommend Gideros Mobile Game Development for anyone wanting to dip their virtual toes into the world of mobile development in a cheap (indeed, free) way. With this book, the support of the Gideros website forums and documentation, your development requirements will be complete. Even if you are a seasoned developer, you will find the Gideros platform useful for fast prototyping your games and will find this book invaluable.

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Boriska Mar 06, 2014

If you need a quick start creating your first Gideros game, go ahead and get this book. Arturs did a really great job, guiding it through the book through all the main steps of basic game development. He even introduced basic concepts of working with box2d. The book is short but it is worth every penny. The code in book is well commented and you can borrow a lot of techniques from there.Check Gideros community forum as well - people are really friendly there and ready to help. And you can be sure that when you post a question, Arturs will be normally the first one to reply!Well done, Arturs! Molodec!

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Javier Feb 10, 2014

It's easy to rate this book with five stars, it has typos and minor mistakes but it contains a lot of useful information. In this book you'll find everything you need to make your first game and also a lot of tools to use in your next games.The information is presented in an incremental manner, so you're never managing more than one concept at a time. First you get a prototype stage, then you add game managing features like changing levels, menu displaying and things that make it seem more like a game, later on you add animation, sound and some user engaging features like high scores.Finally what you won't find here and you might be interested about are social integration, ads, and handling purchases.

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paolofranciej Dec 16, 2013

I really love this book.Gideros is a great platform for creating mobile games, but for a beginner it isn't so easy to put everything together. Arturs is already one of the major contributors of useful information in the Goderos forums and on his blog, but in this book he covers in a structured form all the best practices to create a game from scratch incredible games.It's a tutorial to the n'th power ! Well written, well articulated, doesn't leave anything important unsaid or unclear...Absolutely a must for game programmers using Gideros! Or for would be mobile game programmers !I'm really happy with this book (when my 1M$ app hits the market I'll send him a gift for sure :) )

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Gideros Mobile Game Development: With Gideros you can develop games for both iOS and Android faster and more simply. This book shows you how with a real-life project you undertake yourself. All that's required is a little familiarity with Lua.

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