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Learning AndEngine

You're reading from Learning AndEngine Design and create Android games with the simple but powerful tool AndEngine

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783985968

Length 286 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Android

Concepts

Mobile Game Development

Author (1):

Martin Varga

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Table of Contents (13) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up an AndEngine Project FREE CHAPTER

2. Game Concept and Assets

3. From Assets to Entities

4. HUD and Text Display

5. Basic Interactions

6. Physics

7. Detecting Collisions and Reacting to Events

8. Advanced Physics

9. Adding a Menu and Splash Scene

10. Polishing the Game

11. Testing, Publishing, and What's Next

Index

Chapter 4. HUD and Text Display

In this chapter, we will learn about text output. We will look deeper into how fonts are created and stored and analyze the possible problems of AndEngine's way of displaying text characters. We will also learn how to create multilingual games and how to localize them.

We will see how to put text on a screen utilizing a heads-up display (HUD) in order to display the score of the game. Alternative ways of displaying text messages will also be discussed.

Finally, we will cover the basics of Android and AndEngine logging and debugging output.

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Authors (1)

Varga

Varga

Martin Varga is a professional Java developer with a passion for teaching and developing mobile games. He has worked as a senior software engineer in several domains, including telecommunications, mentoring juniors and leading teams of developers. When it was announced that Java will be the language of choice for the Android mobile platform, he seized the opportunity and started his indie game developer career. He is the author of Mr. Dandelion's Adventures, an Android game made with AndEngine, and a few other games used in his tutorials, which are published on his website http://android.kul.is. Alongside the tutorials, he is also trying to promote other indie developers' games and writing game reviews. He's an active member of the AndEngine community and several game development websites, answering questions of newcomers in the indie game development scene daily.

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