Chapter 6. Onto the Next Platform...Game

In this chapter, we are going to look at making our next game! This is going to be based off a classic game, Super Mario Bros. Yes, that's right! We are going to look at making a platformer, a genre made famous and popularized by the famous plumber and the big N. In this chapter, we will look at reusing everything we have learned to give us a head start, and then we will get introduced to a new tool named Tiled—a tile map editor to help us build a simple level. We will then take the output generated from that tool, and import it into our game using the Tile Map API that LibGDX has. Next, we will add our character and introduce collision detection between our character and the tile map we have. Finally, we will add a simple collectable that our character can collect while traversing our new world.

So, get ready to make our next game! We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

• Why and what is a platformer?
• Reusing what we...