Game development
I have recently published my libGDX game Rainbow Diamonds for desktop computers. One problem I had was how to obfuscate the desktop JAR file for distribution, and this is how I solved it. I’m using openjdk 11.0.13 distributed as part Seguir leyendo libGDX + ProGuard: How to obfuscate the Desktop JAR file
After a few months of work, my 2D platformer game, Rainbow Diamonds, is available for personal computers. Now you can play with gamepads and fulscreen! The game is available for Windows, Mac and Linux (Ubuntu). Rainbow Diamonds by PixNB Games Seguir leyendo Rainbow Diamonds available for PC
I have added a new feature to the tool GDX Project Utils to generate neccesary icons for iOS and Android from an original one. Options Min. Interpolation: It’s the filter applied to generate icons of minor size than the original Seguir leyendo GDX Project Utils v0.3.0 – Icons generator
I have released my last game for iOS and Android: The Best Ninja The game consists of go as high as you can on the tower, jumping to left and right and avoiding to be beaten by master ninjas. You Seguir leyendo New game! The Best Ninja
Antialising of textures is a technique used to smooth images when them are shown with any transformation (scaled, rotated, etc.) respect to the original one. By default, cocos2d-x applies this technique for the textures we use in our games, but Seguir leyendo cocos2d-x: How to disable antialising for textures, atlas and bitmap fonts
I have updated my tool gdx-project-utils to version 0.2.0. News It allows to export spritesheets generated with Aseprite to PLIST format used by cocos2d-x. It uses Nimbus look and feel. Bugs fixed. Example On this video of a previous Seguir leyendo GDX Project Utils v0.2.0 (en)
I have published the version 1.3.0 of my game Rainbow Diamonds, available at Apple App Store, Google Play Store and Amazon App Store. The changes on this version are: New virtual controls in-game. On the new controls, it’s used direction Seguir leyendo Rainbow Diamonds 1.3.0 – New virtual joystick and Options screen
I will explain in this post why and how to use several layers on our maps. It’s a bit long post, so I will try to organize concepts in a clear way. If you have any doubt or suggestion, use Seguir leyendo How to use libGDX + Tiled: several layers
Project assets Once we have our tileset and out map, it’s time to start working with libGDX. Create a new project and import it to your favorite code editor. The first thing to do after project import is to add Seguir leyendo How to use libGDX + Tiled: drawing with libGDX
The file which defines the design of the scene is the map file. There are many ways to generate this file from our tileset. Options We can create the map file manually, or we can use any of the existing Seguir leyendo How to use libGDX + Tiled: scene design