Practical Android 4 Games Development by DiMarzio, J.F. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents at a Glance Contents Foreword About the Author About the Technical Reviewers About the Game Graphics Designer Acknowledgments Preface Part I: Planning and Creating 2D Games

Chapter 1: Welcome to Android Gaming

Programming Android Games Starting with a Good Story

Why Story Matters Writing Your Story

The Road You’ll Travel Gathering Your Android Development Tools

Installing OpenGL ES

Choosing an Android Version Summary

Chapter 2: Star Fighter: A 2-D Shooter

Telling the Star Fighter Story What Makes a Game?

Understanding the Game Engine Understanding Game-Specific Code Exploring the Star Fighter Engine

Creating the Star Fighter Project Summary

Chapter 3: Press Start: Making a Menu

Building the Splash Screen

Creating an Activity Creating Your Splash Screen Image Working with the R.java File Creating a Layout File Creating Fade Effects Threading Your Game

Creating the Main Menu

Adding the Button Images Setting the Layouts Wiring the Buttons Adding onClickListeners

Adding Music

Creating a Music Service Playing Your Music

Summary

Chapter 4: Drawing The Environment

Rendering the Background

Creating the Creating the Creating the Creating a Renderer Loading an Image Using OpenGL Scrolling the Background

Adding a Second Layer

Loading a Second Texture Scrolling Layer Two Working with the Matrices Finishing the scrollBackground2() Method

Running at 60 Frames per Second

Pausing the Game Loop Clearing the OpenGL Buffers

Modify the Main Menu Summary

Chapter 5: Creating Your Character

Animating Sprites Loading Your Character

Creating Texture Mapping Arrays Loading a Texture onto Your Character Setting Up the Game Loop

Moving the Character

Drawing the Default State of the Character Coding the PLAYER_RELEASE Action Moving the Character to the Left Loading the Correct Sprite Loading the Second Frame of Animation Moving the Character to the Right Loading the Right-Banking Animation

Moving Your Character Using a Touch Event

Parsing MotionEvent Trapping ACTION_UP and ACTION_DOWN

Adjusting the FPS Delay Summary

Chapter 6: Adding the Enemies

Midgame Housekeeping Creating a Texture Class Creating the Enemy Class

Adding a New Sprite Sheet Creating the SFEnemy Class The Bezier Curve

Summary

Chapter 7: Adding Basic Enemy Artificial Intelligence

Getting the Enemies Ready for AI

Creating Each Enemy's Logic Initializing the Enemies Loading the Sprite Sheet

Reviewing the AI

Creating the moveEnemy() Method Creating an enemies[] Array Loop Moving Each Enemy Using Its AI Logic

Creating the Interceptor AI

Adjusting the Vertices Locking on to the Player's Position Implementing a Slope Formula

Creating the Scout AI

Setting a Random Point to Move the Scout Moving Along a Bezier Curve

Creating the Warship AI Summary

Chapter 8: Defend Yourself!

Creating a Weapon Sprite Sheet

Creating a Weapon Class

Giving Your Weapon a Trajectory

Creating a Weapon Array Adding a Second Sprite Sheet Initializing the Weapons Moving the Weapon Shots Detecting the Edge of the Screen Calling the firePlayerWeapons() Method

Implementing Collision Detection

Applying Collision Damage Creating the detectCollisions() Method Detecting the Specific Collisions Removing Void Shots

Expanding on What You Learned Summary Reviewing the Key 2-D Code

Chapter 9: Publishing Your Game

Preparing Your Manifest Preparing to Sign, Align, and Release

Checking the Readiness of AndroidManifest Creating the Keystore

Summary

Part II: Creating 3D Games

Chapter 10: Blob Hunter: Creating 3-D Games

Comparing 2-D and 3-D Games Creating Your 3-D Project

BlobhunterActivity.java BHGameView BHGameRenderer BHEngine

Creating a 3-D Object Test

Creating a Constant Creating the BHWalls Class Instantiating the BHWalls Class Mapping the Image Using gluPerspective() Creating the drawBackground() Method Adding the Finishing Touches

Summary

Chapter 11: Creating an Immersive Environment

Using the BHWalls class

Creating a Corridor from Multiple BHWalls Instances

Using the BHCorridor Class

Building the BHCorridorClass Adding a Wall Texture

Calling BHCorridor Summary

Chapter 12: Navigating the 3-D Environment

Creating the Control Interface

Editing BHEngine Editing BlobhunterActivity

Moving Through the Corridor

Adjusting the View of the Player

Summary Reviewing the Key 3-D Code

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