Chapter 9. Even Angrier Birds!
Welcome to this chapter! I hope you enjoyed the previous chapter and are making your own games resembling Angry Birds. I also hope you used everything you learned in the previous chapters to really make it into a fully formed game.
In this chapter, we will cover a technique that will hopefully help you when you find yourself creating lots of instances of a certain type of object that are generally short-lived. We will look at object pooling and how LibGDX can provide the tools to help us use them. In this chapter, we'll take a look at the following topics:
- The how, what, and why of object pools
- Hey, look at all these acorns!
The how, what, and why of object pools
Object pooling is the principle of reusing inactive or ...
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