Game Development News, Tutorials and More
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In this part we are going to look at how you handle mouse and keyboard input in LibGDX. There are two ways to go about handling input, by polling for it ( as in… “Has anything happened yet? No, ok… What about now? No, ok… Now? Yes! […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part Today we are going to look at implementing physics in LibGDX. This technically isn’t part of LibGDX itself, but instead is implemented as an extension. The physics engine used in LibGDX is the popular Box2D physics system a library that has been ported to basically every single […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In the previous tutorial we looked at handling touch and gesture events. These days, most mobile devices have very accurate motion detection capabilities, which LibGDX fully supports. In this example we will look at how to handle motion as well as detect if a device supports certain […]
Previous Part Table Of Contents Next Part In the previous tutorial part we look at creating about the simplest physics simulation possible in LibGDX and Box2D, a single object affected by gravity. In this tutorial we are going to take things one step further and apply force, impulses and torque ( and no gravity […]
Or… How to take a Blender model you downloaded from the web and make it actually usable in your game in 28 easy steps! … granted, the second title doesn’t have the same flow to it, does it? I just had to run through this process and I figured I would share […]
Let me start off by saying that exporting from Blender is always a pain in the ass. This experience didn’t prove to be an exception. I will describe the process in some detail. First and foremost, Blender 2.69 DIDNT work. At least not for me, not matter what I did, Blender 2.69 would […]
LibGDX Tutorial Series Welcome to the GameFromScratch.com LibGDX tutorial series. Select a link below to expand and view the video. Each video is available in 1080p resolution on YouTube. Where applicable, there will also be a post to a page with full source examples for each tutorial. If you prefer text based tutorials to video, […]
The following is an ongoing series on working with the exceptional library, LibGDX. LibGDX is a cross platform Java based game development library that handles almost all facets of game development. These tutorials assume you have some prior experience with Java and Eclipse and each part assumes you have read the prior parts. […]
