Game Engine

Hi,

I really enjoyed your book. I’m really having fun developing apps. I wanted to know if you could recommend a physics or game engine to use. I’ve seen a few of them out there, but it doesn’t seem like they are very well documented. I’d like to start with a 2D engine, and later move to a 3D. Any suggestions?

-Antonio Zugno

Do a search for “box2d”. I haven’t used it myself but I’ve heard good things about it, and it’s been ported to Android. There’s a Java version and a C (NDK) version.

Thanks for your help. That was one of the engines I was looking at. Finally got the test app running.

-Antonio Zugno

Hey Antonio,

I’m also really enjoying the book and playing around with the Sudoku application.

Before purchasing this book I had done a lot of playing around with AndEngine. It actually incorporates Box2D as well as many other neat little features.

Anyways I’d really suggest you check it out, really fun little engine to play around with.

www.andengine.org

Hope you enjoy.

Austin

Austin,

Thanks for your suggestion. I saw the AndEngine, but it uses the Mercurial repository system, and JBox2D uses svn, which I already had installed.

I got a sample working with JBox2D. The only sample online that I found online doesn’t actually show an animation, just gives the values. I downloaded the testbed sample, and got it working, but really don’t want that as a starting point of a new project.

I’ll give the AndEngine a try.

-Antonio Zugno

Antonio,

I have yet to play around with JBox2D, but am quite pleased with AndEngine.

There is an example for just about everything you need to know for andengine.
As i said previously the community is also usually pretty good at answering questions.

Here is a list of the examples available: http://code.google.com/p/andengineexamples/

Let me know how it compares to JBox2D once you try it out!

Austin

Finally got some time to test the AndEngine. I really like it so far. I found a video that helps you get started.

http://www.andengine.org/blog/2010/06/andengine…