Chapter 5. Creating a 2D Platform Game
KEY TOPICS
Creating a Tile-Based Map
Collision Detection
Finishing Things Up and Making It Fast
Creating an Executable .jar File
Ideas to Expand the Game
Summary
This is where the fun starts.
The previous chapters covered the basics of using Java to create graphics, sound, and interactivity. In this chapter, you're going to use what you created in the previous chapters to create a real 2D platform game. Platform games are games in which the player runs and jumps from platform to platform, avoiding bad guys and collecting power-ups. To create a platform game, in this chapter you'll learn about tile-based maps, map files, collision detection, power-ups, simple bad guys, and parallax background scrolling. Check out ...
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