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The Android Game Developer's Handbook

By : Avisekhar Roy
Book Image

The Android Game Developer's Handbook

By: Avisekhar Roy

Overview of this book

Gaming in android is an already established market and growing each day. Previously games were made for specific platforms, but this is the time of cross platform gaming with social connectivity. It requires vision of polishing, design and must follow user behavior. This book would help developers to predict and create scopes of improvement according to user behavior. You will begin with the guidelines and rules of game development on the Android platform followed by a brief description about the current variants of Android devices available. Next you will walk through the various tools available to develop any Android games and learn how to choose the most appropriate tools for a specific purpose. You will then learn JAVA game coding standard and style upon the Android SDK. Later, you would focus on creation, maintenance of Game Loop using Android SDK, common mistakes in game development and the solutions to avoid them to improve performance. We will deep dive into Shaders and learn how to optimize memory and performance for an Android Game before moving on to another important topic, testing and debugging Android Games followed by an overview about Virtual Reality and how to integrate them into Android games. Want to program a different way? Inside you’ll also learn Android game Development using C++ and OpenGL. Finally you would walk through the required tools to polish and finalize the game and possible integration of any third party tools or SDKs in order to monetize your game when it’s one the market!
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
The Android Game Developer's Handbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Game development for VR devices


There is a large space for VR in the mobile game industry. Based on Android and Google VR platforms, developers are now targeting games for VR. VR gaming is different in nature than other games. It takes users into the game world. Certainly, game design and planning are also different from other mobile games.

VR game design

VR does not fulfil the criteria for every genre. Hence, VR game design needs to done accordingly. VR games are suitable when there is a character in the game, most preferably a first person shooter or in some RPG or racing games.

The designer needs to keep in mind that the whole game world must be experienced by users through the game. Hence, the game experience is the most important factor for any VR games.

Generally, a game designer starts designing a game from an idea. Then, corresponding controls, environment, and experience are thought of. However, in the case of VR games, the developer or designer already has a defined set of features...