LibGDX Game Development Essentials -- Table of Contents -- LibGDX Game Development Essentials -- Credits -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more -- Why subscribe? -- Free access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Wiring Up -- Getting started -- Setting up the Java development environment -- Installing Eclipse -- Setting up the Android development environment -- Installing the ADT plugin and linking the Android SDK with Eclipse -- Installing the LibGDX support plugins -- Setting up GWT -- Installing the RoboVM plugin -- Installing the Gradle plugin -- The LibGDX Gradle combo -- Using the Gradle setup application -- A Hello World project -- Importing Gradle projects to Eclipse -- Running the project -- Exploring the project -- Displaying the Hello World text -- Running demos -- Running tests -- The alternate LibGDX setup -- Summary -- 2. Let There Be Graphics! -- The ThrustCopter game -- A LibGDX app's life cycle -- Creating the Thrust Copter project -- Planning art assets -- The game scene -- Populating the game scene -- Displaying the graphics -- The final game scene -- Adding the plane animation -- Moving the plane -- The code so far -- Texture packing -- The revised code -- Handling multiple screen sizes and aspect ratios -- Summary -- 3. Thou Shall Not Pass! -- Piloting our plane -- Navigating using touch input -- Dealing with other input methods -- Polling keyboard keys -- Accessing accelerometer data -- Event handling for inputs -- Using the InputAdapter class -- Capturing gestures.

Game controllers controller -- Adding the different game states -- Adding the pillar rocks -- Collision with the pillars -- Adding meteor rocks -- Collision with the meteor rock -- Making the game easier -- Playing with audio -- Adding sound effects -- Summary -- 4. Bring in the Extras! -- Refactoring time -- Creating a ThrustCopterScene class -- Creating our Game class instance -- More refactoring -- Using AssetManager -- Time for pickups -- Using a pickup class -- Adding pickup logic -- Heads Up Display (HUD) UI -- Displaying text -- Hiero - the BitmapFont creator tool -- Special effects with particles -- Pooling particle effects -- Summary -- 5. Scene 2 - the Menu -- Introducing Scene2D -- The stage for actors -- Actors and their actions -- Widgets -- Adding a loading scene -- Investigating the LoadingScreen class -- Adding the menu scene -- Creating scalable skins using the 9-patch tool -- Handling the Android back button -- Summary -- 6. Physics with Box2D -- The incredible world of Box2D -- LibGDX with Box2D -- Creating a Box2D world -- Drawing the Box2D world -- Simulating the Box2D world -- Fixing the time step -- Box2D rigid bodies -- Interactions in the Box2D world -- Linking the Box2D and game worlds -- Detecting collisions -- Box2D version of Thrust Copter -- Creating and placing objects -- Creating obstacles -- Drawing the scene -- Handling collisions -- Ignoring collisions with shield -- Collision for pickups -- Summary -- 7. The Amazing World of 3D -- Introducing the third dimension -- Creating 3D content -- The PerspectiveCamera class -- Converting 3D files to G3DB -- Playing with primitives -- Rendering the ModelInstance classes -- Loading 3D models -- Playing animations -- Interacting with 3D objects -- 3D frustum culling in LibGDX -- 3D particles with Flame -- Using bullet physics -- Creating the bullet world -- Adding rigid bodies.

Collision detection -- Adding shadows -- Summary -- 8. Saving Our Data -- Persisting game preferences -- Saving and loading sound preferences -- Implementing a local leaderboard -- Filesystems and access permissions -- Reading and writing files -- The leaderboard -- Saving and displaying scores -- Tile-based level design -- Using Tiled -- Loading TMX levels -- Summary -- 9. Finishing Our Android Game -- Using Google's offerings -- Interfacing platform-specific code -- Implementing Google Analytics tracking -- Adding tracker configuration files -- Adding Google Mobile Ads -- Leaderboards and achievements using Google Play services -- Linking BaseGameUtils -- Wiring with code -- Famous third-party alternatives -- Flurry for analytics -- Ads from InMobi -- Swarm - the all-in-one package -- Creating icons -- Summary -- 10. Time to Publish -- Publishing the Android version -- Preparing the store listing -- Preparing to release the APK -- Publishing the desktop version -- Publishing the Web version -- Publishing the iOS version -- First steps at the developer portal -- Preparing the iOS project -- Testing the build on a device -- Creating the IPA -- Some useful resources and links -- Overlap2D -- Working with Overlap2D -- Summary -- Index.