I'm a newbie when it comes to Android Game Development and I have a few questions, that may be stupid or childish for some.
First, which is in the title, is AndEngine a game engine or a library? I've read different posts from the net which has different views and answers.
And, without using AndEngine, let's say I used the libgdx, will a newbie like me in Android Game Development create a decent game within 5-7 months?
Thanks in advance. :)
As the site of AndEngine says it is indeed an Android Game engine. For the second part of your question I don't have information or something like that so I'll let it over to other people to discuss about that.
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I have an game idea and i wants to implement that in android.
My game has much similarity with this game
please tell me which game engine i need to use to make this.
One more and i think best option to create game application in android using cocos2D library. This library is highly customized and easy to learn than AndEngine. Because i have worked with AndEngine library but it is not efficiently handle more then 300 objects on a scene. And one more limitation of AndEngine is sometime library itself throws error.So i suggesting you to use COCOS2D library it is already efficiently work in iPhone. But it also works for Android.You can see at
http://dan.clarke.name/2011/04/how-to-make-a-simple-android-game-with-cocos2d/
for android and for more concept of this library you can see from this link http://www.cocos2d-x.org/wiki/Getting_Started
There are a number of open source engines you can use like AndEngine and libGDX which is my preference, also there is the famous Unity Engine however it's not free. To learn how to make games you'll have to start simple, you can read through game examples like this libGDX clone of Doodle Jump or this 2D game demo written by Notch the creator of Minecraft.
Use Google to find information on these engines, look at their forums, tutorials and examples. Good luck.
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I would like to start developing a 2D game for Android, but i haven't got the slightest clue where to start. For instance, how are the Angry Birds games developed? I'm guessing it's a 2D engine or something?
Can anyone shed some light on the matter? Anything is appreciated as i have zero ideas on where to look first.
I've used AndEngine extensively and I really like it BUT
2D games - unless you have something really, really complicated in-mind (lots of physics and collision detection), I'd recommend you consider creating them in plain old HTML (HTML5, to be specific).
Why?
Because HTML5 works pretty-much everywhere and there are some really decent toolkits for making more complex stuff (including level editors and basic physics stuff).
Moreover, you can convert HTML5 into Apps for both Android, iOS and other platforms - e.g. your game will work pretty much everywhere with minimal extra effort. Using tools like Cordova(phonegap) even allows you to access things like cameras and tilt sensors in Apps created from your HTML5 code (Dolphin Browser on Android even allows those apps to run in the browser!)
If you do want fancier stuff, Corona is pretty decent and easy to learn and cross-platform too - and Andengine is great if you're happy to be stuck on Android!
I recommend LIBGDX
http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/index.html
Open source, java, cross-platform, good support for Open-GL, lot's of examples and a good community.
Yes, Angry Birds was developed on its own 2D engine. I recommend to look at these engines:
Corona SDK - really simple crossplatform(!) engine. Nice one to start.
AndEngine - havent any type of documentation, but there are a lot of references and useful extensions, including Multiplayer. Good community
Marmalade (AirPlay SDK) - really powerful, but complex engine. Many hits were made on it
Also you can use Unity3D with 2D extension. Its awesome engine.
Good luck with your beginnings ;)
Persnally, To Get started with your first 2D game, Don't straight away start with a Game Engine or 2D Frameworks.
Here's a Game that I developed with just the bitmap manipulation logic and a java thread to run the game.
Parachute Penguins
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.positivesthinking.parachutepenguinsfree
Create a Java thread that serves as a game loop.
Make use of SurfaceView and manipulate bitmaps and with onClickListeners you can achieve a simple 2D game.
Go for Game Engine and Frameworks once you are comfortable with it.
I'd recommend AndEngine. They have a really good forum plus their example code is pretty much self explanatory.
If you're looking for a headstart, follow this tutorial.
Go for AndEngine!
Felgo (felgo.com) offers several tutorials for any skill level. It's a cross-platform 2D game engine.
There is already an open-source Angry Birds clone that was made with Felgo.
It also also comes with ready-to-use game templates for the most successful game genres like tower defense, platform games or puzzle games and provides reusable components for handling multiple display resolutions & aspect ratios, animations, particles, physics, multi-touch, gestures, pathfinding and more to prototype and build games within days API reference.
It is all well documented!
Try here, this helped me loads: http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2011/06/android-game-development-tutorials.html
I already answered similar question in another post: Android 2D game development without an engine
I posted a tutorial at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnnHGCKrIzw
Assuming that you are familiar with Java, Eclipse (or similar compiler), Google API, etc. Here are the steps to build a full-blown 2D Android game:
Use drawable-nodpi for sprite images (gives sprite size consistency
across screen densities and sizes)
Use different layouts to support various screen sizes (e.g.
layout-large, layout-xlarge, etc...)
Use TranslateAnimation and ObjectAnimator to animate sprite movements across screen
Use math to figure out sprites collision (e.g. screen coordinates
and sprite location etc.)
Use handlers and condition statements to control the game events
You can test the outcome of following the above guide to developing a 2D Android game by checking out the game Yum Yum Pow available on Google Play. The free limited version is available also on Google Play and can be downloaded at:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wildroid.yum.yum.pow.limited
I want to develop games for Android.
What are the best ways to do 2D games?
Are there some good resources on developing simple games for someone new to Android?
NOTICE : I suggest to check out other answers with good examples. I have requested to unaccept this answer and accept https://stackoverflow.com/a/8322784/753603 answer
Well it all depends where you stand in matter of Android platform and knowledge of how it works?
Beginner
Than I would suggest start writing simple apps to add some GUI background images, and get familiar with lots of different data structures and how to deal with them. Read about background task execution such as AsyncTask.
Intermediate
Explore different Graphics engines for Android, I would suggest
http://www.andengine.org/
ANdEngine is game engine for android platform, It has lots of built in functionality which you can use for making games. Find tutorials on google there are lot lot lot and lot...and while I am writing this, some generous people are writing one for us :)
Expert in making game on other platform
Than also I would suggest google tutorials like this one,
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/android/androidBallGame.aspx
Again there are heaps of them. :)
Cheers enjoy!
You can start by reading the Android documentation about Graphics. After that, you can try numerous tutorials and sample codes in the Resources section. There are sub-sections available for you to learn from the sample codes:
JetBoy
http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/JetBoy/index.html
Lunar Lander http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/LunarLander/index.html
TicTacToe http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/TicTacToeMain/index.html
and so on.
Working link for donut-release2 / samples
Pretty Good documentation on How do I get started making Android games ,
How should I begin learning game development with frameworks like Unity3D or Roar Engine?
I currently only know html/css and a tiny bit of php, e.g. nothing complex.
Regards,
Andrew
penelop is a very nice tutorial.
Here is the link http://unity3d.com/support/resources/tutorials/penelope.html
It is write by JavaScript. If you use C# , you can look at http://gltovar.com/blog/?p=35.
And also Unity3D's Documentation is write very great.
If I were you, I would have started up with Unity3D, and choosen JavaScript as programming language on it. Because of it is you can find so many resources easily on the Internet. There are so many videos, documents, web sites or something else. I have done like that at least, you know. To be honest, developing game using Unity3D game engine is simple. First, you will add some objects to scene. Second, control the relationship of objects to each other. And after that, you will find 3D models out for your game. In fact, you will search how to develop game for mobile devices. For example searching for touch functions and finally you have games on Google Play or AppStore etc. Just remember Unity3D game engine is multi-platform. That's the point to me. Because I develop a game only one time and I can duplicate it for other platforms, especially to Android OS from Windows.
By the way you said that you just have known html and css, a tiny bit of php. Don't care this situation. Unity3d has an unique structure. That doesn't mean this is easy. I mean that programming in Unity3D is enjoyable only. Just download free trial version and get start it. Good luck.
https://unity3d.com/unity/download
I only have experience with Unity3D and a tiny bit of SIO2. SIO2 is just a framework in C++ without GUI, i.e. yo use your favorite IDE (XCode, Eclipse, ...) and Blender for modelling. This seems to me pretty hard for a beginner.
On the other hand doing C# on Unity should not be that difficult for a PHP programmer. There are a lot of resources, my favourite is a 1 hour video tutorial by Matthew Campbell. It is a hands on session and after it you will have simple game on your smartphone, PC or whatever. The Documentation from Unity3D themselves is pretty good as well.
Another choice colud be Unreal engine (pretty good reputation), Bork3D or Torque
In general it will take some time to get some knowledge but it's pretty interesting stuff. Be prepared to do some math, especially when going into 3D. Keep in mend that games are strongly related to graphics design, nice thing but not too easy for programmers
My company uses Unity3D, and I have found it to be the most successfully-designed engine in terms of combining code and a UI-Editor for developers. In other words, I can code, and then hand of the same project to developers to work with it in the exact same engine it was started in. You can even customize the editor itself to streamline the coding process or give the later team a GUI to work with to edit code, without them having to go into the scripts and know how to do it that way. We also have an Unreal (UDK) team, and they love it. It is more similar to Valve's Hammer/(Source) Engine and uses a drag-and-drop system called (i believe) Kismet for all the coding.
As for coding languages, in Unity we use C#. It is a high-level and streamlined language from the .Net Framework and I have gone from knowing nothing to being pretty advanced in the course of a year. I highly recommend it. Good luck!
Hey all.... I am currently trying to make a game on the android platform. I want some guidelines on choosing a good android 2D game engine. I have been looking on the internet for sometime and have found these game engines to choose from the one which doesn't have a huge learning curve
AndEngine
libGdx (The one m most impressed by)
JMonkeyEngine
For anyone who wants to know more about the different game engines the following link should help you..
http://www.cuteandroid.com/ten-open-source-android-2d-or-3d-game-engine-for-android-developers
I intend to keep the interface simple yet attractive, so want to choose the correct engine, and also want to choose the correct engine using which making complex games also is easy in my future projects. If some one could tell me commercially used free (or open sourced) game engines i would be really grateful. I even wouldn't mind learning a 3D game engine if its learning curve is not that too steep and its implementation of 2D games is also pretty simple.
Andengine hides most of the complexity from you, so its super easy to get started, but because of this you do not have full control over it. The documentation or javadocs is close to zero, so dont expect anything from there.
As for libgdx, its harder to learn, but the community is bigger and more matured, and u have more control to the engine.
no idea about the monkey engine.