Beginning Android 4 Games Development

Defining the Game World

The classic chicken-and-egg problem haunts us again. You learned in the last chapter that we have a correspondence between world units (for example, meters) and pixels. Our objects are defined physically in world space. Bounding shapes and positions are given in meters; velocities are given in meters per second. The graphical representations of our objects are defined in pixels though, so we have to have some sort of mapping. We overcome this problem by first defining a target resolution for our graphical assets. As with Mr. Nom, we will use a target resolution of 320×480 pixels (aspect ratio of 1.5). We're using this target because it's the lowest practical resolution but, if you're targeting tablets specifically, you ...