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Learning Android Game Development

By : Malankar

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Learning Android Game Development

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By: Malankar

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Overview of this book

In this book, we’ll start with installing Android studio and its components, and setting it up ready for Android N. We teach you how to take inputs from users, create images and interact with them, and work with sprites to create animations. You’ll then explore the various collision detection methods and use sprites to create an explosion. Moving on, you’ll go through the process of UI creation and see how to create buttons as well as display the score and other parameters on screen. By the end of the book, you will have a working example and an understanding of a 2D platform game like Super Mario and know how to convert your 2D games to 3D games.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

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Introduction to Android N and Installation of Android SDK

Introduction to Android N

Software requirements

The nuts and bolts of Android

Summary

Getting Familiar with Android Studio

Understanding the Android project structure

Summary

Managing Inputs

Resource folder in detail

Summary

Creating Sprites and Interactive Objects

Game Theory

Summary

Adding Animation to Your Game

Adding animations to make your game more awesome

Summary

Collision Detection and Basic Artificial Intelligence

Collision detection

Artificial Intelligence

Summary

Adding Boundaries and Using Sprites to Create Explosions

Adding boundaries

Creating explosions

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Adding an Explosion and Creating a UI

Adding an explosion to our game

Creating the UI for our game

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Converting Your Game from 2D to 3D

Introduction to OpenGL ES

Learning about the 3D coordinate system

Creating a 3D scene with OpenGL ES

Summary

Working Further on 3D Game

Rendering our object on screen

Adding colors to our object

Rotating our object

Creating a pyramid 3D object

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Game Theory

If you observe a game carefully in its source code level, you will observe that a game is just a set of illusions to create certain effects and display them on screen. Perhaps, the best example of this can be the game that we are about to develop. In order to make your character move ahead, you can do either of two things:

Make the character move ahead
Make the background move behind

Let's take a look at this in a bit more detail. The preceding two points can be achieved with the help of some illusions; let's understand how.

Illusions

Either of the two things mentioned in the preceding section will give you an illusion that the character is moving in a certain direction. Also, if you remember Mario properly, then you will notice that...