building games-with-libgdx
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Presentation on building games with LibGDX given at Java Day South Africa 2014, held in Johannesburg.TRANSCRIPT
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Building Games With LibGDXBy Mark Clarke
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Agenda
● Overview– features
– architecture
● Tools● Demo
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WhoamI
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Overview
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LibGDX Overview
● Open source
● Java game development framework,
● Some components written in C/C++,
● Leverages 3rd party libraries
– Lightweight Java Game Library
– OpenGL,
– Box2D,
– OpenAL
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Cross Platform
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Bad Logic Games?
● Small, spare-time, game development shop● Mario Zechner
– benevolent dictator of libGDX
● Apache 2.0 license
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LibGDX
● How to start?– Create project manually or use GUI tool
– Or use Gradle!
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LibGDX Architecture
● Application framework – main event loop, game life cycle,
● Graphics module – draw sprites/graphics on screen,
● Audio module – play music, sound effects,
● Input/Output module – mouse,keyboard, touch screen accelerometer
● File I/O module – read/write resources and assets
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LibGDX Architecture
● ApplicationListener interface – – abstract core game logic to shared platform
code base,
– Game loop, life cycle
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Tools
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Particle Editor
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3rd Party Texture
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Bitmap Editor
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3rd Party Tools - Box2D Body Editor
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3rd Party Tools – Tiled Map Editor
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Demo
Code on Github - https://github.com/mxc/java-day-demo
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Join JoziJUG!
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Special Thanks
● Twitter - @mxc4● G+ - [email protected]● LinkedIn