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_8

8. 2D Game Programming Tricks

Mario Zechner¹ , J. F. DiMarzio² and Robert Green³

(1)Graz, Steiermark, Austria

(2)Celebration, Florida, USA

(3)Portland, Oregon, USA

Chapter 7 demonstrated that OpenGL ES offers quite a lot of features to exploit for 2D graphics programming, such as easy rotation and scaling and the automatic stretching of your view frustum to the viewport. It also offers performance benefits over using the Canvas API.

Now, it’s time to look at some of the more advanced topics of 2D game programming. You used some of these concepts intuitively when you wrote Mr. Nom, including time-based ...