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Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part Back in Tutorial 3 I created a simple animation using a Timer and setting the frame manually from a TextureAtlas. This is not the ideal way to perform animation using LibGDX and was done to illustrate how to use a TextureAtlas, not how to perform animation. Instead […]
LibGDX Tutorial 3B: Simple Animation Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part So far we’ve look at what Scene2D provides in terms of Actors, Actions as well as handling input, now we will look at some of the scene management functionality it provides. One of the very powerful capabilities of Scene2D is grouping. Let’s jump right in with an […]
LibGDX Tutorial 3C: Scene management Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part One of the nicest features of Scene2D is the UI layer built over top of it. Scene2D.ui provides a series of widgets that make creating a UI an breeze, something often lacking in game development libraries. That said, there is one very confusing stumbling block before you […]
LibGDX Tutorial 9: Scene2D Part 4–UI Skins Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part We are going to look at networking for your LibGDX application. Networking in LibGDX is relatively primitive, supporting only socket communications. In many cases though, that’s more than enough. We are going to implement a very simple socket based chat application. The code is heavily commented, so […]
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Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part One very common requirement for even the most simple game is a level editor. The level of sophistication required varies massively from game to game but a lot of the functionality is pretty common. At the very base level, you need a tool to layout the graphics […]
A quick look at Tiled. An open source 2D level editor Read More
Table Of Contents Next Part In case you’ve never heard of it, LibGDX is a Java based game library capable of targeting iOS, Android, Desktop ( Windows, Mac and Linux ) and HTML5. It provides a full suite of 2D game functionality including Input, Graphics, Fonts, Physics, Storage and increasingly, 3D. So basically LibGDX […]
LibGDX Tutorial 1: Creating an initial project Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part If you’ve never used Tiled read this first! In this tutorial part we are going to look at loading orthogonal maps in LibGDX. Orthogonal basically means “at a right angle to” which is a fancy way of saying the camera is looking straight at the scene. […]
LibGDX Tutorial 11: Tiled Maps Part 1: Simple Orthogonal Maps Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In the prior tutorial we got a simple top down tile map working. Now we want to add some character to it, literally. Depending on your needs this can be laughably simple or somewhat complex. Let’s take a look at a basic example. This is building on […]
LibGDX Tutorial 11: Tiled Maps Part 2: Adding a sprite and dealing with layers Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part This is the part people always find the most fun, the actual act of putting graphics up on screen. Let’s start with about the simplest project that we can. We are going to display this sprite (created in this tutorial): On screen. One important thing […]
LibGDX Tutorial 3: Basic graphics Read More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In this part of the LibGDX tutorial series we are going to take a look at using GLSL shaders. GLSL standards for OpenGL Shader Language and since the move from a fixed to programmable graphics pipeline, Shader programming has become incredibly important. In fact, every single thing […]
LibGDX Tutorial Part 12: Using GLSL Shaders (and creating a Mesh) Read More