Android Arcade Game App

verfasst von: J. F. DiMarzio

Verlag: Apress

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Apress, the leading Android books publisher, continues to provide you with very hands-on, practical books for teaching and showing app developers how to build and design apps, including game apps, that can be built and deployed in the various Android app stores out there.

Android Arcade Game App: A Real World Project - Case Study Approach is no different in that it walks you through creating an arcade style Prison Break game app—top to bottom—for an Android smartphone or tablet. This book teaches you the unique characteristics and challenges of creating an Arcade style game And it provides you with the full source code for this sample game app.

After working through this book, you can re-use its Prison Break app as your very own personal template, then customize for your specific variables, design and build your own Android game app - top to bottom. Then, deploy in one or more of the available Android app stores. Have fun and get coding.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

Chapter 1. Introduction to Android Gaming

Abstract

Welcome to Android Arcade Game App. In this book, you will learn how to create an Android arcade-style game “from project to publish.” While I will walk you through solutions to some gaming development problems, this book is not necessarily for beginner developers.

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Chapter 2. What Is an Arcade Game?

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In this chapter, you will learn what defines a game as an arcade-style game. You will also form an operational definition of arcade-style gaming.

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Chapter 3. Creating a Menu

Abstract

In this chapter, you will create a two-part menu screen for your Prison Break game. The menu screen, shown in Figure 3-1, is made up of two different “screens” containing a total of five different images.

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Chapter 4. Drawing the Background

Abstract

In the last chapter, you created and finalized the main menu to Prison Break. You should have compiled and run your code on either the Android emulator or an Android-based phone in debug mode, and seen a functioning main menu screen. The Exit button of the main menu is wired to kill the game process. As of right now, however, the Start button is not wired to any code.

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Chapter 5. Creating the Player Character and Obstacles

Abstract

In the previous chapter, you learned how to add a background image to your game, Prison Break. You created a class that, when instantiated, gave you all of the resources you needed to add your background.

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Chapter 6. Collision Detection

Abstract

In the last chapter, you added all of the game elements to the game world: bricks, a player paddle, and the ball. After running your code, however, you found that although you could move the player paddle, it had no effect on the gameplay. The ball starts in a random position and ends up falling off the bottom of the screen. The reason for this is the distinct lack of collision detection in your game.

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Chapter 7. Keeping Score

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In the last chapter, you learned how to implement a basic collision detection system in your Prison Break game. This collision detection system allowed you to test for any collisions between the game ball and the bricks or the paddle. It is now time to add the finishing touch to the game.

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Chapter 8. Adding New Levels

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At this point in the book, you have created a functional arcade game. Prison Break can be used as a template for many other games, and the knowledge that you built in this short case study will help you create compelling arcade-style games.

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Backmatter

Titel: Android Arcade Game App
verfasst von: J. F. DiMarzio
Verlag: Apress
Electronic ISBN: 978-1-4302-4546-9
Print ISBN: 978-1-4302-4545-2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-4546-9