Engineering Games with libGDX: A Practical Java Guide to Building Maintainable, Performant, and Shippable 2D and 3D Games - Softcover

C. Kent, Armando

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798161335482

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

What does it take to turn a working game prototype into a maintainable, high-performance game you can confidently ship?

Building a game involves more than drawing sprites and writing gameplay code. You must manage resources, control frame timing, structure game systems, optimize rendering, handle physics, and prepare your application for different platforms. With libGDX and Java, you have the tools to tackle these challenges, but the quality of your game depends on how you engineer them.

Engineering Games with libGDX shows you how to build practical, well-structured 2D and 3D games while developing the engineering skills needed to take a project beyond the prototype stage.

Inside this book, you will learn how to:

• Design a reliable game runtime using frame timing, fixed-step simulation, screens, states, and reusable input systems.

• Build efficient 2D rendering pipelines with SpriteBatch, texture atlases, cameras, viewports, animation, and Tiled maps.

• Manage assets, interfaces, and audio using AssetManager, Scene2D, and reusable resource systems.

• Implement gameplay and physics with entity-based architecture, collision detection, and Box2D.

• Create advanced visual effects using GLSL shaders, framebuffers, post-processing, particles, and blending.

• Develop 3D game systems with ModelBatch, materials, lighting, glTF workflows, and physics integration.

• Strengthen your game architecture with persistence, data-driven configuration, platform-specific services, and networking.

• Improve performance and reliability through resource management, threading practices, profiling, testing, and debugging.

• Prepare games for release with Gradle build configurations, desktop packaging, and Android, iOS, and Web deployment workflows.

Rather than treating libGDX as a collection of unrelated APIs, this practical Java game programming guide explains how the pieces work together. The essential code examples are included in the book, helping you apply each technique directly to your own projects.

Whether you are a Java developer entering game development or an indie programmer refining an existing project, you will gain a clearer approach to building scalable game architecture, optimizing rendering performance, and managing cross-platform development.

Stop settling for a prototype that merely works.
Get Engineering Games with libGDX and start building games designed to perform, remain maintainable, and ship with confidence.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798161335482
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 227
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.de/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxemburg