Cejas Snchez Alberto - Libgdx cross-platform game development cookbook: over 75 practical recipes to help you master cross-platform 2D game development using the powerful Libgdx framework

David Saltares Mrquez is a C++ software developer at a top-tier financial data company. He was an Artificial Intelligence programmer at Crytek, UK, for two years, where he developed emergent systems for Homefront: The Revolution . He then moved to Sony Computer Entertainment Europe to work on multimedia applications for PlayStation 4. He is part of the Libgdx core team, works on small indie games in his spare time, loves game jams, and often delivers presentations at universities. Find out more about his work on his personal blog at http://siondream.com.

To Anda, who stood by me during good and bad times, and my parents, who unconditionally encouraged me from afar.

Alberto Cejas Snchez is an indie game programming enthusiast who graduated with an MSc in Computer Science and whose work revolves around games and simulations across 2D/3D technologies with different target platforms. He has also worked on automatic game code generation tools.

To those responsible for making me feel proud as a son.

Si Fleming (PhD) is currently a senior engineer at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe with a career spanning over a decade. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sussex where his research focused on distributed systems, ad hoc social networks, Q & A, security, and privacy. He has taken part in game jams including #OneGameAMonth and is currently working on several games using Libgdx.

Joost van Ham (Xoppa) founded the Xoppa company in 2001 and graduated in Computer Science in the Netherlands in 2004. Since then, he has served a wide variety of companies with their business automation. He's been working on Libgdx since 2012, where his main focus is on the 3D API, linear algebra, and 3D physics wrapper. He's also the author of a series of comprehensive tutorials covering 3D game development with libGDX, which can be found at http://blog.xoppa.com.

Manuel Palomo-Duarte is currently a Lecturer and Degree Coordinator for Computer Science at the University of Cadiz (Spain), where he received his PhD in 2011. He has been working for several years as a Director to the Free Software and Open Knowledge office at the same university and is a board member of Wikimedia Spain. His teaching focuses on subjects related to open data and video game development using open source software. His main research interests are learning technologies, serious games, and collaborative development. In these fields, he has published different contributions in peer-reviewed journals and research conferences.

Andr Schmode is a 40-year-old German developer with a passion for video games. He lives in Berlin and holds a degree in Business Computer Science. He started developing with Commodore C16, C64, and Amiga, turned over to Visual Basic, and finally fell in love with Java. He started development with Libgdx in 2012 and released the game bubblr dummy in trouble for Android devices and OUYA consoles. Game development is just a hobby for him. He loves to be creative and bring his fantasies to life. The only limit when developing a video game is his imagination! (and minor technical difficulties).

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Preface

Libgdx is a powerful Java-based open source cross-platform game framework. It allows developers to target Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, and HTML5 with a single codebase, sparing them the hassle of dealing with low-level, platform-specific details.

For more information, please refer to http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/.

Through a clean and simple API, Libgdx offers a vast set of features, which are as follows: