About this course
This video course brings to you a great way to learn the use of OpenGL ES and create brilliant games while creating a framework for any future games that you would like to develop. It is enriched with the theoretical foundations of OpenGL ES along with ways to monetize your game so that you can potentially make money through the Play Store.
You will be introduced to the fundamentals of shaders and how they work in OpenGL, gradually moving into the intricacies of rendering a single cube and developing it to add different types of lighting and texturing. You will also see the implementation of particle effects to explode the cube. Finally, after playing with the key technicalities of building a game and developing the engine, you will put it all together to create the classic game from the 1970s, Breakout, and present it with an edge.
This video course is all about learning the ropes of making a fun game with your own engine, and then being able to create it yourself.
About the Author
Amerigo Moscaroli is a junior game developer at Race Yourself, a game development company based in London, that deals with creating augmented reality fitness games for Google Glass. He has been an avid gamer since an early age, leading him to pursue a career developing video games. He has a first class Bachelor's degree in Computer Games Programming from De Montfort University.
What are the requirements?
- All you need to do is sharpen your basic Java skills and you are ready to go.
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 39 lectures and 1.5 hours of content!
- Utilise shaders to render the objects in your game
- Discover how to encode the math functions necessary for games, from matrices to vectors
- Bring life to the scene through different types of lighting
- Add textures to objects and spice up the environment with finer details
- Make the bricks explode using the key functionalities of the particle systems
- Link different activities together to navigate through the app and create other assets
- Create the gameplay for Breakout through different input methodsand collision detection
- Include a high scores table in your game and monetise your product on the Playstore
What is the target audience?
- If you are looking for a course that will show you how to build Android games using OpenGL ES, you have found it! This video course is just what you need to build your own game for Android devices.
