Beginning Android Games, Third Edition

© Mario Zechner, J.F. DiMarzio and Robert Green 2016

Mario Zechner, J. F. DiMarzio and Robert Green, Beginning Android Games, 10.1007/978-1-4842-0472-6_6

6. Mr. Nom Invades Android

Mario Zechner¹ , J. F. DiMarzio² and Robert Green³

(1)Graz, Steiermark, Austria

(2)Celebration, Florida, USA

(3)Portland, Oregon, USA

In Chapter 3, we churned out a full design for Mr. Nom consisting of the game mechanics, a simple background story, handcrafted graphical assets, and definitions for all the screens based on some paper cutouts. In Chapter 5, we developed a full-fledged game development framework that allows us to transfer our design screens easily to code. But enough talking; let’s start writing our first game!

Creating the Assets

We have two types of assets ...