AndEngine for Android Game Development Cookbook

AndEngine for Android Game Development Cookbook

By : JAYME SCHROEDER, Brian Boyles

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AndEngine for Android Game Development Cookbook

By: JAYME SCHROEDER, Brian Boyles

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Overview of this book

AndEngine is a broad 2D game engine which allows game developers, both experienced and inexperienced, to develop games for the Android platform with ease. Don't be fooled by the simplicity, though. As easy as it is to ‚Äúpick up and go,‚Äù AndEngine includes enough functionality to bring any type of 2D game world to life.The "AndEngine for Android Game Development Cookbook" contains all of the necessary information and examples in order to build the games as you imagine them. The book's recipes will walk you through the various aspects of game design with AndEngine and provides detailed instructions on how to achieve some of the most desirable effects for your games.The "AndEngine for Android Game Development Cookbook" begins with detailed information on some of the more useful structuring techniques in game design and general aspects of resource management. Continuing on, the book will begin to discuss AndEngine entities, including sprites, text, meshes, and more. Everything from positioning, to modifiers, and even tips on improving entity functionality with raw OpenGL capabilities. From here on, everything from applying physics to your game, working with multi-touch events and gestures, game optimization, and even an overview of the various AndEngine extensions will be covered.The book has a widerange of recipes, from saving and loading game data, applying parallax backgrounds to create a seemingly 3D world, relying on touch events to zoom the game camera, taking screen-shots of the device's screen, and performance optimization using object pools. If physics-based games are more interesting to you, there's also a list of recipes ranging from controlling the world forces and calculating forces applied to bodies, creating destructible objects, and even creating rag-dolls.Pong styled games were fun 35 years ago, but it is time to take your game to the next level with the AndEngine for Android Game Development Cookbook.

AndEngine for Android Game Development Cookbook

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

AndEngine Game Structure

Introduction

Know the life cycle

Choosing our engine type

Selecting a resolution policy

Creating object factories

Creating the game manager

Introducing sounds and music

Working with different types of textures

Applying texture options

Using AndEngine font resources

Creating the resource manager

Saving and loading game data

Working with Entities

Introduction

Understanding AndEngine entities

Applying primitives to a layer

Bringing a scene to life with sprites

Applying text to a layer

Using relative rotation

Overriding the onManagedUpdate method

Using modifiers and entity modifiers

Working with particle systems

Designing Your Menu

Introduction

Adding buttons to the menu

Adding music to the menu

Applying a background

Using parallax backgrounds to create perspective

Creating our level selection system

Hiding and retrieving layers

Working with Cameras

Introduction

Introducing the camera object

Limiting the camera area with the bound camera

Taking a closer look with zoom cameras

Creating smooth moves with a smooth camera

Pinch-zoom camera functionality

Stitching a background together

Applying a HUD to the camera

Applying a controller to the display

Coordinate conversion

Creating a split screen game

Scene and Layer Management

Introduction

Creating the scene manager

Setting up the resource manager for scene resources

Customizing managed scenes and layers

Setting up an activity to use the scene manager

Applications of Physics

Introduction to the Box2D physics extension

Understanding different body types

Creating category-filtered bodies

Creating multiple-fixture bodies

Creating unique bodies by specifying vertices

Using forces, velocities, and torque

Applying anti-gravity to a specific body

Working with joints

Creating a rag doll

Creating a rope

Working with collisions

Using preSolve and postSolve

Creating destructible objects

Raycasting

Working with Update Handlers

Getting started with update handlers

Attaching an update handler to an entity

Using update handlers with conditionals

Handling the removal of an entity from the game

Adding game timers

Setting entity properties based on the time passed

Maximizing Performance

Introduction

Ignoring entity updates

Disabling background window rendering

Limiting simultaneous sound streams

Creating sprite pools

Cutting down render time with sprite groups

AndEngine Extensions Overview

Introduction

Creating live wallpaper

Networking with the multiplayer extension

Creating high-resolution graphics with SVG

Color mapping with SVG texture regions

Getting More From AndEngine

Loading all textures from a folder

Using textured meshes

Applying a sprite-based shadow

Creating a physics-based moving platform

Creating a physics-based rope bridge

Source Code for MagneTank

Index

Customer Reviews

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Getting started with update handlers

Update handlers are essentially portions of code that we register with either entities or the engine, that are run whenever the engine updates the scene. In most situations, this updating occurs every time a frame is drawn, regardless of whether entities or the scene have been altered. Update handlers can be a powerful means of running a game, but overusing them or performing heavy calculations in them will lead to poor performance. This recipe will cover the basics of adding a simple update handler to an activity.

Getting ready...

Create a new class named UpdateHandlersActivity that extends BaseGameActivity. We will use this class to create a basic update handler.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create an update handler that displays how many updates have occurred:

Place the following definitions within our UpdateHandlersActivity class:

public static int cameraWidth = 800;
public static int cameraHeight = 480;
public Scene mScene;public Font fontDefault32Bold...

AndEngine for Android Game Development Cookbook

By : JAYME SCHROEDER, Brian Boyles

AndEngine for Android Game Development Cookbook

By: JAYME SCHROEDER, Brian Boyles

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