Game development
I have recently published my new game for iOS, made with libGDX: Rainbow Diamonds. Once the app is packaged to distribute for iOS devices, I found some errors when I tried to upload the app to iTunes Connect. This issues Seguir leyendo How to solve issues in libGDX at iOS version uploading to iTunes Connect
Good morning, I have published a minor update of Rainbow Diamonds. This update makes changes on the virtual joystick to improve the game experience. This version includes the following changes Dynamic DPAD. The direction button on virtual joystick it’s positioned Seguir leyendo Rainbow Diamonds 1.0.3 – Improvement of virtual joystick
I’m currently working on a platform game made with libGDX-1.9.3. This game runs in Landscape mode. The iOS compilation has worked right, and the tests on the iPhone simulator (with iOS 9) are also OK. But, when I test the Seguir leyendo Fixing libGDX issue on iOS version with Landscape orientation
Given that Android apps can run on different devices, there are situations where we must know if the device where the app is running on is of type smartphone or television. This allows our app to adapt itself to the Seguir leyendo How to know if my Android app is running on a television or on a mobile device
When working with LibGDX, we normally use a «vitual» screen (whether through using Viewports or with transformation matrices) with a defined dimensions, and all textures / images will have a size according to that virtual dimensions. If the viewport size Seguir leyendo How to smooth textures when they are resized in LibGDX (filters I)
Intoduction When we need to animate our game objects, one of the methods we have is the frame by frame animations. It’s the classic animation method, and consists on drawing a serie of images that, when they are showed in Seguir leyendo Frame by frame animations in LibGDX
An important aspect at video game development is the splash screen. What is the splash screen? It is an screen which is shown to the user just when he opens the application. It is usually used to show some information to user Seguir leyendo How to make a splash screen in LibGDX
After a few months of work, recently I have published my second game for Android: Dark Snake. It is a game of type snake, in which I have tried to give a modern aesthetics with sinister touches. I put some Seguir leyendo Dark Snake – Android (en)
When we make games with LibGDX for Android devices, we generally like our game uses full screen. If the device where we play the game has virtual buttons for Android actions (Home, Back, Menu, …) instead of physical buttons, we Seguir leyendo How to hide virtual buttons in Android / LibGDX
When making games, it is common that our application has multiple screens or scenes. Below I will show a way to manage the different scenes in libgdx. For this example, I will supose the game has three screens: the main Seguir leyendo How to manage screens in LibGDX