Hacking into

Game Dev

With: DAVIS SILVERMAN

Quick Plug

JOIN THE GAME DEVELOPERS CLUB!

 

(next meeting on KOTOR)

Why Game Development?

  • Actual Projects!
  • Results you can see
  • Creativity

LibGDX

A simple game framework

"Finished" Demo Code

https://github.com/sinistersnare/terphax-demo

An hour is not that long

  • We will get started
  • Probably do different things than the demo
  • Speak up what you may want to see!
  • Lets Hack!

https://github.com/sinistersnare/terphax-demo

What you will need

  • Eclipse Or IDEA
  • LibGDX Setup-UI
  • Ears, probably

Using the demo UI

Make sure to use advanced-> eclipse

read instructions in console when finished

LibGDX Lifecycle

  • Create/Show
  • Render
  • Dispose

Main Application

  • Camera
  • SpriteBatch
  • Sprites

Player

  • Could probably have its own class
  • Sprite
  • Movement / input
  • Bullets

Bullets

  • Constructor
  • tick
  • dispose

Enemy

  • Constructor
  • tick
  • dispose

Thanks!

  • Twitter @Sinistersnare
  • Game Dev Club http://www.facebook.com/groups/umdgaming
  • Questions?

Hacking Into Game Dev

By Davis Silverman

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Hacking Into Game Dev

A (most livecoding) presentation on LibGDX for the Terrapin Hackers club at UMCP. 'finished' code here: https://github.com/sinistersnare/terphax-demo

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