Java Game Development with LibGDX: From Beginner to Professional

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Lee StemkoskiJava Game Development with LibGDXhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3324-5_4

4. Shoot-em-up games

Lee Stemkoski¹ 

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DEPT OF MATH & CS, ADELPHI UNIVERSITY DEPT OF MATH & CS, Garden City, New York, USA

 

In this chapter, you will create an entirely new game: Space Rocks, shown in Figure 4-1 and inspired by the classic arcade game Asteroids. You will make extensive use of the framework you created in the previous chapter (the BaseGame, BaseScreen, and BaseActor classes) and add a few new features along the way. The most significant addition will be the ability to handle discrete events: actions that should occur only once each time a key is pressed.

Figure 4-1.

The Space Rocks game

Game Project: Space Rocks

When starting ...