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Learning AndEngine

Design and create Android games with the simple but powerful tool AndEngine

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jul 2025
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Description

Design and create Android games with the simple but powerful tool AndEngine

Key Features

    Book Description

    AndEngine is a very popular open source OpenGL (open graphics library) Android game engine, used to create mobile games quickly while maintaining the ability to fully customize them.
    This book will guide you through the whole development process of creating a mobile game for the Android platform using one of the most popular and easy-to-use game engines available today.
    Beginning with the very basics, you will learn how to install AndEngine, gather graphics, add sound and music assets, and design game rules. You will first design an example game and enhance it by adding various features over the course of the book. Each chapter adds more colors, enhances the game, and takes it to the next level. You will also learn how to work with Box2D, a popular 2D physics engine that forms an integral part of some of the most successful mobile games.
    By the end of the book, you will be able to create a complete, interactive, and fully featured mobile game for Android and publish it to Google Play.

    What you will learn

    • Understand the basics of a game engine
    • Install all the required software and download and set up AndEngine along with its physics extension
    • Design basic game rules and gather game assets
    • Create a basic runnable application using AndEngine
    • Display text and graphics in the game
    • Implement basic interactions between the player and the game, making use of the mobile device sensors
    • Simulate realworld physics ingame
    • Finish a polished 2D physicsbased

    Who this book is for

    If you are a beginner to AndEngine, or mobile game development in general, and you are looking for a simple way to start making games for Android, this book is for you. You should already know the basics of Java programming, but no previous game development experience is required.

    Table of Contents

    1. Setting up an AndEngine project
    2. Game concept and assets
    3. From assets to entities
    4. HUD and Text display
    5. User Input
    6. Game logic and physics
    7. Detecting collisions and reacting to events
    8. Advanced physics
    9. Adding Menu and Splash scene
    10. Polishing the game
    11. Testing, Publishing, and what?s next
    PDF ISBN: 978-1-78355-411-9
    Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
    Copyright owner: © 2014 Packt Publishing Limited
    Publication date: 2025
    Language: English
    Pages: 286
    Related subjects:
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