Hello,

I would like to make a game for Android, but OpenGL ES scares me.

I've been looking for a 2D game library for android for about 4 hours now and I can't find anything. There is really a need for this, I'm surprised nobody started such a project. Unless I didn't find it...

Maybe you could start by learning the fundamentals about 2d programming on android.

You could start here and build your own library. MrSnowFlake did a library, never tested it

http://www.droidnova.com/playing-with-g ... i,147.html

Thank you WarrenFaith, I didn't find the library you were talking about on this page. [edit]I've found it now.
We are all building our own library whereas we could capitalize to make a great opensource library like it has been done on the iPhone (cocos2D). The android market place would get more and better 2D games with a great library available.

so feel free to start one....

WarrenFaith wrote:so feel free to start one....

I'm currently working on an open source opengl 2d framework, trying to make it as easy to use and extensible as it can be.

Not promising it will be perfect, far from it, but I hope it will give the android gaming developers a bit of a boot in the ass. Should have something released soon

I actually developed a rather versatile and very easy to use 2D Game Engine using OpenGL while developing my game, Stroids. To have a public release it would need some polishing off and some fixes here and there, but check out Stroids to see what it's capable of. Currently I'm about to finish a super fast Tilemapper that gets 50-60FPS for a fullscreen 8-way scrolling tilemapper with size 32x32 tiles (that's 15x10 tiles onscreen for a total of 150+ tiles; more than 150 due to new offset tiles when scrolling).

Things I need to work on are dynamic allocation for objects; right now you have to assign how many objects and textures you're going to create before Image.init() is called, where you throw in the commands to generate everything. Image.init() is called in onSurfaceCreated() and onSurfaceChanged() in the GLSurfaceView. In this you load a texture:


Then you load a sprite object:

Parameters are imgData, texX, texY, texWidth, texHeight, spriteWidth, spriteHeight. This allows for multiple images to be stored in the same texture (called an Atlas Texture), so you can use spritesheets or whatever you fancy for maximum efficiency. My engine also supports the use of multiple textures, though this implementation hasn't been polished yet.

Then, when you want to draw that object, you just call Entity.draw(Sprite, X, Y); It also includes overloaded methods with extra parameters for rotation, scale, and RGBA values.

Furthermore if you want to have a series of similar objects, you can implement the Entity class and work from there. That's what I did with Stroids; I made Bullet, Particle, Enemy, and Grid (for the background effect) implement Entity, then use custom drawing and construction methods.

Not only have I coded all of that in, but I have quick and easy sound object control using SoundPool (although there's a lifecycle bug with it that I can't figure out yet), and easy drawing of custom bitmap Text using Text.draw(String, X, Y) with overloaded methods that have scale and RGBA parameters.

And of course, I'm about to finish my tilemapper to add to the engine. I haven't worked in music support yet since Stroids was too intensive to allow the extra processing for music, but I'll add in support later.

I'm iffy about releasing this to the public as of right now, since I'm trying to start a new mobile game company for Android, but I may release soon anyhow. We'll see.