Building Games with Flutter : The Ultimate Guide to Creating Multiplatform Games Using the Flame Engine in Flutter 3 / Paul Teale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teale, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Development.

Video games.

Video games--Programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file HTML

Biography/History:

Teale Paul: Paul Teale was born and raised in Leeds, West Yorkshire before moving to London to pursue a career in software engineering. He has been a software engineer for 25+ years covering backend, web, and mobile, where he has spent the last 12 years as a mobile developer covering Android and more recently Flutter. He has worked on many large projects during his career for companies like Discovery, Sky, Shazam, Visa, NBC, and Channel 5. He is a massive sci-fi fan and loves watching all the latest movies. He is happily married for the last 15 years to Mariel where they live together in West London with their son Alfie and their 2 cats.

Summary:

With its powerful tools and quick implementation capabilities, Flutter provides a new way to build scalable cross-platform apps. In this book, you'll learn how to build on your knowledge and use Flutter as the foundation for creating games.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and credits

Contributors

About the reviewers

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Game Basics

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Flutter Games

Technical requirements

Working with Flutter

Using Dart

Compilation types

Hot reload

Native bridge

Garbage collection

Thread control

Summarizing the book

Flame

Designing a game

Graphics

Input

Sounds

Level design

Cross-platform games

Advanced graphics effects

Game AI

Finishing the game

Creating a simple example animation

Summary

Questions

Chapter 2: Working with the Flame Engine

Organizing the assets in your game

Adding the game loop

Update

Render

Working with components

FlameGame

Converting our code to use components

Questions

Chapter 3: Building a Game Design

Planning a game

Designing the game screens

Part 2: Graphics and Sound

Chapter 4: Drawing and Animating Graphics

Drawing on the screen

Working with sprite animation

Moving a sprite around the screen

Colliding with other sprites

Summary

Questions

Chapter 5: Moving the Graphics with Input

Drawing onscreen controls

Moving our character with onscreen controls

Moving our character with touch

Chapter 6: Playing Sound Effects and Music

Playing background music

Playing sound effects

Controlling the volume

Chapter 7: Designing Your Own Levels

Introduction to Tiled

Loading a tile map

Adding dynamic objects to the map

Understanding map navigation

Detecting tile collisions

Understanding collisions

Implementing collisions

Chapter 8: Scaling the Game for Web and Desktop

Building the game for the web and desktop

Setting the new screen boundary

Fixing the sprites

Fixing the coin and water components

Fixing the background and tile map

Fixing the HUD components

Setting background music

Setting Flutter Web build parameters

Navigating with key events

Part 3: Advanced Games Programming

Chapter 9: Implementing Advanced Graphics Effects

Technical requirements

What are particle effects?

Animating with particles

Creating shadows with layers

Chapter 10: Making Intelligent Enemies with AI

Making enemies chase the player

Navigating obstacles with pathfinding

Chapter 11: Finishing the Game

Wrapping up the game

Adding a menu screen

Adding a settings screen

Adding a game over screen

Compiling all screens with navigation routes and music volume

Monetizing your game

Adverts

In-app purchases

Purchase

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781801813662

1801813663

OCLC:

1328134436