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by Alberto Cejas Sánchez, David Saltares Márquez
Libgdx Cross-platform Game Development Cookbook
- Libgdx Cross-platform Game Development Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Libgdx Cross-platform Game Development Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Diving into Libgdx
- Introduction
- Setting up a cross-platform development environment
- Creating a cross-platform project
- Understanding the project structure and application life cycle
- Updating and managing project dependencies
- Using source control on a Libgdx project with Git
- Importing and running the Libgdx official demos
- 2. Working with 2D Graphics
- 3. Advanced 2D Graphics
- 4. Detecting User Input
- 5. Audio and File I/O
- Introduction
- Playing short sound effects
- Audio streaming for background music
- Optimizing audio files to reduce download sizes
- Procedural audio generators
- Engine sounds with dynamic audio
- The 2D space sound system
- The first approach to file handling in Libgdx
- Using preferences to store game states and options
- The XML parsing primer
- JSON serialization and deserialization
- 6. Font Rendering
- 7. Asset Management
- 8. User Interfaces with Scene2D
- 9. The 2D Maps API
- 10. Rigid Body Physics with Box2D
- Introduction
- Introducing Box2D
- Introducing more complex shapes
- Introducing joints
- Real-life joints example – bike simulator
- Reacting to collisions
- Sensors and collision filtering
- Querying the world
- Building a physics world from level data
- Implementing a deferred raycaster
- The fixed timestep approach
- 11. Third-party Libraries and Extras
- Introduction
- Making libraries compatible with GWT
- Managing platform-specific code
- Smooth animations with Universal Tween Engine
- Dynamic 2D lighting with Box2DLights
- Adding support for localization
- Finite state machine and messaging
- Component-based entity systems with Ashley
- Skeletal animations with Spine
- 12. Performance and Optimizations
- 13. Giving Back
- Index
As a minimum, you need a computer running Windows, Mac, or a Linux distribution that also supports hardware acceleration. No need to worry; currently, even the most considerably old machines support this. Additionally, to target Android devices, a phone or a tablet running Android 2.2 or higher is required. In order to target iOS, a Mac with XCode is needed, and when testing on a real device, an Apple developer subscription becomes a must.
All software dependencies are free to use even for commercial purposes. However, the Apple developer license is subject to yearly payments.
Installation instructions for additional software will be provided when needed.
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