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Android Game Programming By Example

Android Game Programming By Example

By : John Horton
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Android Game Programming By Example

Android Game Programming By Example

4.4 (9)
By: John Horton
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Overview of this book

The book is best suited for existing Android or Java programmers who want to adapt their skills to make exciting Android games. The book is also for determined readers who might have no Android, game programming or even Java experience, but a reasonable understanding of object oriented programming knowledge is assumed.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Player 1 UP
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1. Player 1 UP
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A closer look at the games
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Setting up your development environment
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Summary
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2. Tappy Defender – First Step
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2. Tappy Defender – First Step
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Planning the first game
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Building the home screen
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Coding the game loop
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The PlayerShip object
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Drawing the scene
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Deploying the game
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3. Tappy Defender – Taking Flight
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3. Tappy Defender – Taking Flight
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Controlling the spaceship
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Building the enemies
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The thrill of flight – scrolling the background
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Things that go bump – collision detection
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4. Tappy Defender – Going Home
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4. Tappy Defender – Going Home
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Displaying a HUD
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Implementing the rules
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Ending the game
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Adding sound FX
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Adding persistence
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Iteration
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The finished game
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Summary
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5. Platformer – Upgrading the Game Engine
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5. Platformer – Upgrading the Game Engine
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The game
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Upgrading the game engine
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6. Platformer – Bob, Beeps, and Bumps
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6. Platformer – Bob, Beeps, and Bumps
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The SoundManager class
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Introducing Bob
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Multiphase collision detection
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Player input
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Animating Bob
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7. Platformer – Guns, Life, Money, and the Enemy
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7. Platformer – Guns, Life, Money, and the Enemy
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Ready aim fire
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8. Platformer – Putting It All Together
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8. Platformer – Putting It All Together
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Bullet collision detection
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Adding some fire tiles
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Eye candy
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9. Asteroids at 60 FPS with OpenGL ES 2
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9. Asteroids at 60 FPS with OpenGL ES 2
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Asteroids simulator
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Introducing OpenGL ES 2
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Preparing OpenGL ES 2
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Building an OpenGL-friendly, GameObject super class
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The spaceship
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Drawing at 60 + FPS
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10. Move and Draw with OpenGL ES 2
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10. Move and Draw with OpenGL ES 2
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Drawing a static game border
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Twinkling stars
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Bringing the spaceship to life
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Rapid fire bullets
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Reusing existing classes
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Drawing and moving the asteroids
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Scores and the HUD
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11. Things That Go Bump – Part II
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11. Things That Go Bump – Part II
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Planning for collision detection
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Performing the checks
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Precise collision detection with the border
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Precise collision detection with an asteroid
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Finishing touches
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A closer look at the games

Here is a quick glimpse at the three projects.

Tappy Defender

Fly Flappy Bird-style with one finger to reach your home planet, while avoiding multiple enemies. Features include:

  • Basic animation
  • Home screen
    Tappy Defender
  • Collision detection
  • High scores
  • Simple HUD
  • One-finger touch screen controls
    Tappy Defender

Tough retro platformer

This is a genuinely tough-to-beat retro style platform game. We have to guide Bob from the underground fire caves through the city, forest, and finally to the mountains. It has four challenging levels. Features include:

  • A more advanced, flexible game engine
  • More advanced "sprite sheet" character animation
  • A level builder engine to design your levels in text format
  • Multiple scrolling parallax backgrounds
  • Transition between levels
  • A more advanced HUD
    Tough retro platformer
  • Add loads of extra diverse levels
  • Sound manager to easily manage sound FX
  • Pickups
  • An upgradeable gun
  • Seek-and-destroy enemy drones
  • Simple AI scripting for patrolling enemy guards
  • Hazards such as fire pits
  • Scenery objects to create atmosphere
    Tough retro platformer

Asteroids simulator

This is a classic shooter with retro vector-graphics style visuals. It involves clearing waves of smoothly animated spinning asteroids with a rapid fire gun. Features include:

  • 60 frames per second or better, even on old hardware
  • An introduction to OpenGL ES 2
  • Shooter with waves of progressive difficulty
  • Advanced multiphase collision detection
    Asteroids simulator
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