基本内容

图书简介

BeginningAndroidGames offers everything you need to join the ranks of successful Android game developers. You'll start with game design fundamentals and programming basics, and then progress towards creating your own basic game engine and playable games. This will give you everything you need to branch out and write your own Android games.

The potential user base and the wide array of available high-performance devices makes Android an attractive target for aspiring game developers. Do you have an awesome idea for the next break-through mobile gaming title? Beginning Android Games will help you kick-start your project.

The book will guide you through the process of making several example games for the Android platform, and involves a wide range of topics:

The fundamentals of game development

The Android platform basics to apply those fundamentals in the context of making a game

The design of 2D and 3D games and their successful implementation on the Android platform

What you’ll learn

How to set up and use the development tools for developing your first Android application

The fundamentals of game programming in the context of the Android platform

How to use the Android's APIs for graphics (Canvas, OpenGL ES 1.0/1.1), audio, and user input to reflect those fundamentals

How to develop two 2D games from scratch, based on the Canvas API and OpenGL ES.

How to create a full-featured 3D game

How to publish your games, get crash reports, and support your users

How to complete your own playable 2D OpenGL games

Who this book is for

This book is for people with a basic knowledge of Java who want to write games on the Android platform. It also offers information for experienced game developers about the pitfalls and peculiarities of the platform.

开始Android的游戏提供一切您需要加入Android的游戏开发成功的行列。你会开始与游戏设计基础和编程的基础，然后逐步实现建立自己的基本的游戏引擎和游戏可玩。这会给你一切你需要另辟蹊径，写自己的Android游戏。