Building Games with Flutter: The ultimate guide to creating multiplatform games using the Flame engine in Flutter 3
- Length: 224 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Packt Publishing
- Publication Date: 2022-06-30
- ISBN-10: 1801816980
- ISBN-13: 9781801816984
- Sales Rank: #1070766 (See Top 100 Books)
Build a complete game from start to finish using Flutter and Flame while getting acquainted with each building block in game design along the way
Key Features
- Begin your Flutter game development journey with step-by-step instructions and best practices
- Understand the Flame game engine and its essential elements for making games, sprite animation, tilemaps, and audio
- Build enjoyable games with Flutter that can be played across different platforms
Book Description
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.
This game development book takes a hands-on approach to building a complete game from scratch. You’ll see how to get started with the Flame library and build a simple animated example to test Flame. You’ll then discover how to organize and load images and audio in your Flutter game. As you advance, you’ll gain insights into the game loop and set it up for fast and efficient processing. The book also guides you in using Tiled to create maps, add sprites to the maps that the player can interact with, and see how to use tilemap collision to create paths for a player to walk on. Finally, you’ll learn how to make enemies more intelligent with artificial intelligence (AI).
By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the confidence to build fun multiplatform games with Flutter.
What you will learn
- Discover the Flame engine and how to use it in game programming in Flutter
- Organize the graphics and sounds used in your game
- Animate a sprite in your games and detect when the player collides with tiles
- Run the game as a web page and desktop app
- Expand our player control with key navigation
- Build your first game and make your enemies more intelligent with AI for games
Who this book is for
If you are a Flutter developer looking to apply your Flutter programming skills to games development, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Dart will assist with understanding the concepts covered.
Building Games with Flutter
Contributors
About the author
About the reviewers
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
To get the most out of this book
Download the example code files
Download the color images
Conventions used
Get in touch
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
Technical requirements
Organizing the assets in your game
Adding the game loop
Update
Render
Working with components
FlameGame
Converting our code to use components
Summary
Questions
Chapter 3: Building a Game Design
Planning a game
Designing the game screens
Summary
Questions
Part 2: Graphics and Sound
Chapter 4: Drawing and Animating Graphics
Technical requirements
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
Technical requirements
Drawing onscreen controls
Moving our character with onscreen controls
Moving our character with touch
Summary
Questions
Chapter 6: Playing Sound Effects and Music
Technical requirements
Playing background music
Playing sound effects
Controlling the volume
Summary
Questions
Chapter 7: Designing Your Own Levels
Technical requirements
Introduction to Tiled
Loading a tile map
Adding dynamic objects to the map
Understanding map navigation
Detecting tile collisions
Understanding collisions
Implementing collisions
Summary
Questions
Chapter 8: Scaling the Game for Web and Desktop
Technical requirements
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
Summary
Questions
Part 3: Advanced Games Programming
Chapter 9: Implementing Advanced Graphics Effects
Technical requirements
What are particle effects?
Animating with particles
Creating shadows with layers
Summary
Questions
Chapter 10: Making Intelligent Enemies with AI
Technical requirements
Making enemies chase the player
Navigating obstacles with pathfinding
Summary
Questions
Chapter 11: Finishing the Game
Technical requirements
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
What else should I learn?
Forge2d
Nakama
Rive
What games shall I make?
Where to get help?
Summary
Questions
Appendix: Answers
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
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