https://www.learnopengles.com/category/game-development/Recent content in Game Development on Learn OpenGL ESHugoen-USTue, 29 Apr 2014 22:14:12 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/opengl-roundup-april-29-2014-milestones/Tue, 29 Apr 2014 22:14:12 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/opengl-roundup-april-29-2014-milestones/Two big names in the game development community are celebrating their achievements as they reach important milestones and bring their work to the community: libGDX 1.0 released Zero to 95,688: How I wrote Game Programming Patterns Congrats to you guys, and thanks for sharing your work with the world! In other news, I’d like to thank El androide …https://www.learnopengles.com/finishing-up-our-native-air-hockey-project-with-touch-events-and-basic-collision-detection/Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:51:43 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/finishing-up-our-native-air-hockey-project-with-touch-events-and-basic-collision-detection/In this post in the air hockey series, we’re going to wrap up our air hockey project and add touch event handling and basic collision detection with support for Android, iOS, and emscripten. Prerequisites This lesson continues the air hockey project series, building upon the code from GitHub for ‘article-3-matrices-and-objects’. Here are the previous posts in this series: …https://www.learnopengles.com/opengl-roundup-october-1-2013-hexscreen-3d-live-wallpaper-and-more/Fri, 20 Sep 2013 14:58:15 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/opengl-roundup-october-1-2013-hexscreen-3d-live-wallpaper-and-more/A fellow developer and blogger, Hisham, has released his Hexscreen 3D Live Wallpaper to the market, and it looks quite cool. Check it out: The wallpaper can be downloaded from Google Play. In other news… Libgdx and Bullet Physics on iOS via RoboVMhttps://www.learnopengles.com/opengl-roundup-september-19-2013/Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:30:19 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/opengl-roundup-september-19-2013/Here’s the beginning of a new series on OpenGL ES 2.0 for iOS, using Apple’s GLKit. GLKit to the max: OpenGL ES 2.0 for iOS – Part 1: GLKit Features OpenGL ES 2: How does it draw? ROBOVM BACKEND IN LIBGDX NIGHTLIES AND FIRST PERFORMANCE FIGURES! – Libgdx is moving to a new backend for iOS …https://www.learnopengles.com/adding-a-3d-perspective-and-object-rendering-to-our-air-hockey-project-in-native-c-code/Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:45:27 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/adding-a-3d-perspective-and-object-rendering-to-our-air-hockey-project-in-native-c-code/For this post in the air hockey series, we’ll learn how to render our scene from a 3D perspective, as well as how to add a puck and two mallets to the scene. We’ll also see how easy it is to bring these changes to Android, iOS, and emscripten. Prerequisites This lesson continues the air …https://www.learnopengles.com/loading-a-png-into-memory-and-displaying-it-as-a-texture-with-opengl-es-2-adding-support-for-emscripten/Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:45:49 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/loading-a-png-into-memory-and-displaying-it-as-a-texture-with-opengl-es-2-adding-support-for-emscripten/In the last two posts in this series, we added support for loading a PNG file into OpenGL as a texture, and then we displayed that texture on the screen: Loading a PNG into Memory and Displaying It as a Texture with OpenGL ES 2, Using (Almost) the Same Code on iOS, Android, and Emscripten. …https://www.learnopengles.com/loading-a-png-into-memory-and-displaying-it-as-a-texture-with-opengl-es-2-adding-support-for-ios/Wed, 24 Jul 2013 16:12:24 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/loading-a-png-into-memory-and-displaying-it-as-a-texture-with-opengl-es-2-adding-support-for-ios/In the previous post, we looked at loading in texture data from a PNG file and uploading it to an OpenGL texture, and then displaying that on the screen in Android. To do that, we used libpng and loaded in the data from our platform-independent C code. In this post, we’ll add supporting files to …https://www.learnopengles.com/loading-a-png-into-memory-and-displaying-it-as-a-texture-with-opengl-es-2-using-almost-the-same-code-on-ios-android-and-emscripten/Tue, 23 Jul 2013 18:41:58 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/loading-a-png-into-memory-and-displaying-it-as-a-texture-with-opengl-es-2-using-almost-the-same-code-on-ios-android-and-emscripten/In the last post in this series, we setup a system to render OpenGL to Android, iOS and the web via WebGL and emscripten. In this post, we’ll expand on that work and add support for PNG loading, shaders, and VBOs. TL;DR We can put most of our common code into a core folder, and …https://www.learnopengles.com/calling-opengl-from-c-on-the-web-by-using-emscripten-sharing-common-code-with-android-and-ios/Mon, 15 Jul 2013 02:05:25 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/calling-opengl-from-c-on-the-web-by-using-emscripten-sharing-common-code-with-android-and-ios/In the last two posts, we started building up a simple system to reuse a common set of C code in Android and iOS: OpenGL from C on Android by using the NDK Calling OpenGL from C on iOS, Sharing Common Code with Android In this post, we’ll also add support for emscripten, an LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler …https://www.learnopengles.com/calling-opengl-from-c-on-ios-sharing-common-code-with-android/Sun, 14 Jul 2013 00:21:48 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/calling-opengl-from-c-on-ios-sharing-common-code-with-android/In the last post, we covered how to call OpenGL from C on Android by using the NDK; in this post, we’ll call into the same common code from an Objective-C codebase which will run on an iOS device. Prerequisites A Mac with a suitable IDE installed. An iOS emulator, or a provisioned iPhone or …https://www.learnopengles.com/calling-opengl-from-android-using-the-ndk/Sat, 13 Jul 2013 01:32:20 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/calling-opengl-from-android-using-the-ndk/For this first post in the Developing a Simple Game of Air Hockey Using C++ and OpenGL ES 2 for Android, iOS, and the Web series, we’ll create a simple Android program that initializes OpenGL, then renders simple frames from native code. Prerequisites The Android SDK & NDK installed, along with a suitable IDE. An …https://www.learnopengles.com/beginning-android-games-to-learn-more-about-game-development-for-android/Tue, 21 May 2013 01:39:19 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/beginning-android-games-to-learn-more-about-game-development-for-android/I’m happy to announce that my book, OpenGL ES 2 for Android: A Quick-Start Guide, is now being readied to be sent off to the printers! I owe a special thanks to the publishers, to you guys, my readers and reviewers, and I also owe a special thanks to Mario Zechner, the creator of libgdx, …https://www.learnopengles.com/developing-a-simple-game-of-air-hockey-using-c-and-opengl-es-2-for-android-ios-and-the-web/Mon, 20 May 2013 15:06:41 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/developing-a-simple-game-of-air-hockey-using-c-and-opengl-es-2-for-android-ios-and-the-web/Some of you have been curious about what the air hockey game from the book would be like if we brought it over to other platforms. I would like to find out, myself. 🙂 In the spirit of my last post about cross-platform development, I want to port the air hockey project over to a …https://www.learnopengles.com/open-source-cross-platform-opengl-frameworks-for-android/Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:58:59 +0000https://www.learnopengles.com/open-source-cross-platform-opengl-frameworks-for-android/Let’s say you’ve decided to develop the next viral game for Android. You now have a choice: Do you go with a pre-packaged solution, flawed and rough around the edges though it may be, or do you decide to DIY (Do It Yourself) which has the disadvantage of reinventing the wheel and spending more time …