About the Authors
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
David Saltares Márquez is a C++ software developer at a top-tier financial data company. He was an Artificial Intelligence programmer at Crytek, UK, for two years, where he developed emergent systems for Homefront: The Revolution. He then moved to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to work on multimedia applications for PlayStation 4. He is part of the Libgdx core team, works on small indie games in his spare time, loves game jams, and often delivers presentations at universities. Find out more about his work on his personal blog at http://siondream.com.
To Anda, who stood by me during good and bad times, and my parents, who unconditionally encouraged me from afar.
Alberto Cejas Sánchez is an indie game programming enthusiast who graduated with an MSc in Computer Science and whose work revolves around games and simulations across 2D/3D technologies with different target platforms. He has also worked on automatic game code generation tools.
To those responsible for making me feel proud as a son.
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