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LibGDX Game Development
Essentials
Make the most of game development features
powered by LibGDX and create a side-scrolling
action game, Thrust Copter
Juwal Bose
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
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LibGDX Game Development Essentials
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First published: December 2014
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Credits
Author
Juwal Bose
Reviewers
Pavel Czempin
Lévêque Michel
Sudarshan Shetty
Tom Wojciechowski
Commissioning Editor
Dipika Gaonkar
Acquisition Editor
Meeta Rajani
Content Development Editor
Anila Vincent
Technical Editor
Madhunikita Sunil Chindarkar
Cover Work
Komal Ramchandani
Production Coordinators
Komal Ramchandani
Sushma Redkar
Indexer
Hemangini Bari
Proofreaders
Simran Bhogal
Maria Gould
Ameesha Green
Paul Hindle
Project Coordinator
Neha Bhatnagar
Copy Editors
Roshni Banerjee
Gladson Monteiro
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About the Author
Juwal Bose
is a game developer, game designer, and technology consultant from
the incredibly beautiful state of Kerala in India. He is an active igure in social media
and game development SIGs, and he never misses a chance to speak at technical
conferences and BarCamps. He conducts technical workshops for engineering
students at professional colleges as part of open source initiatives. Juwal is the
Director at Csharks Games and Solutions Pvt. Ltd., where he manages research
and development, training, and pipeline integration.
He has been developing games since 2004 using different technologies, such as
ActionScript, Objective-C, Java, Unity, LibGDX, Cocos2D, OpenFL, Unity, and
Starling. His team has created more than 400 games to date, and many of the job
management games are listed at the top of leading portals worldwide. He was
involved in the development of more than 20 LibGDX games, primarily for the
Android platform.
Juwal writes game development tutorials for GameDevTuts+ and manages the
blog of Csharks. His isometric tutorial for GameDevTuts+ was well received
and is considered a thorough guide for developing tile-based isometric games.
This is his second book and he aims to keep writing and sharing his 10 years of
game development experience through more books. His irst book,
Starling Game
Development Essentials, Packt Publishing,
was on another exceptional cross-platform
game development framework—Starling.
Juwal is a voracious reader and likes to travel. His future plans also include
writing iction.
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