dwursteisen / beat-the-high-score

Example of game that can be achieve with libGDX, Kotlin, ktx and libGDX-addons

Beat the high-score: build a game using libGDX and Kotlin

Playing games is fun but making games is even better, especially with Kotlin and libGDX. Let's build together a breakout game and let's explore the gaming framework libGDX.

This session will show some libGDX's concepts: how to draw and animate elements of our game, how collision system works to destroy our bricks, what Kotlin brings to libGDX. Then we will dive into more advanced topics like shaders, in order to handle pixels from our images. Why are we doing all of this? To break the high score, of course!

How to build the game?

./gradlew build

How to run the game?

./gradlew desktop:run

How to build the APK for Android?

Create a keystore.properties file in this directory:

storePassword=storePassword
keyPassword=keyPassword
keyAlias=keyAlias
storeFile=storeFile.jks

Create a local.properties file in this directory if you didn't have set ANDROID_HOME:

sdk.dir=<path to the android sdk>

./gradlew android:assembleRelease -PANDROID=true

Because the android plugin is a bit buggy with IntelliJ, Android project is enable only on demand, thanks to the parameter ANDROID

How to grab the game from Google Play Store?

Google Play Store page

beat-the-high-score's Issues

Too hard to run without prior knowledge. // How to import in IntelliJ?

I am getting too many warnings, I don't know what I am doing wrong.
I just tried to import, updated gradle to 4.10.2-all, and got 879 errors and 3 warnings. Clearly, there is something weird going on.

Edit: I got it after running the run task. Needless to say, it was very unintuitive - I usually build before running. I suggest modifying the README to note this.

Screen should not turn off during intro

Hey David!
When I read the intro, screen turns off. Please keep screen on while game is running

Can't parse gradle module dependency 'IdeaModuleDependency{targetModuleName='ashley-addons'} IdeaDependency{myDependencyScope=IdeaDependencyScope{myScope='COMPILE'}, myExported=false}'. Reason: no module with such name (ashley-addons) is found. Registered modules: [core, desktop, beat-the-high-score-master]

I tried to run the project on android studio 4.1 and got that error

libktx.github.io link

Hey, just wanted to tell you that I added your project and a link to your talk to the KTX landing page (libktx.github.io). If you want me to remove it, let me know. Thank you for using KTX and including it in your presentation!