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Building Games with Flutter

By : Paul Teale
Book Image

Building Games with Flutter

By: Paul Teale

Overview of this book

With its powerful tools and quick implementation capabilities, Flutter provides a new way to build scalable cross-platform apps. In this book, you'll learn how to build on your knowledge and use Flutter as the foundation for creating games. This game development book takes a hands-on approach to building a complete game from scratch. You'll see how to get started with the Flame library and build a simple animated example to test Flame. You'll then discover how to organize and load images and audio in your Flutter game. As you advance, you'll gain insights into the game loop and set it up for fast and efficient processing. The book also guides you in using Tiled to create maps, add sprites to the maps that the player can interact with, and see how to use tilemap collision to create paths for a player to walk on. Finally, you'll learn how to make enemies more intelligent with artificial intelligence (AI). By the end of the book, you'll have gained the confidence to build fun multiplatform games with Flutter.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Part 1: Game Basics
5
Part 2: Graphics and Sound
11
Part 3: Advanced Games Programming

Designing the game screens

Now that we have discussed the elements of the game, let's discuss the screens we will use in the game and how the player will navigate between them.

The following is a basic outline to illustrate the flow of the game screens:

Figure 3.6 – Gold Rush screen game flow

Here, we can see the player is shown the game menu at the start, where they can play the game, go to the settings screen, or exit the game.

If they choose Play Game, the game is loaded and they begin to play the game.

If they choose Settings, they can adjust the music and then return to the game menu.

The Game Over!! screen will be shown when the player dies in the game and then they can return to the game menu.

Let's have a look at the final designs and appearances for these screens.

The following screenshot shows the game menu screen:

Figure 3.7 – The game menu screen for Gold Rush

This is what the Settings...