Flame Game Development

Your Guide to Creating Cross-Platform Games in 2D Using Flame Engine in Flutter 3

Andrés Cruz Yoris

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9798868800627
• eBook ISBN: 9798868800634
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Programming Games
• Index: Computer Science

Reimagine your development process and create, test, and deploy your mobile, web, desktop, and embedded apps from a single codebase. This book shows you how to leverage Flame, the modular Flutter game engine, to build cross-platform 2D games. 

With Flutter, you can create all kinds of apps by making subtle changes to projects at the code level. Guided by a practical project-based approach, you'll begin by downloading and installing the game engine. You'll then move on to creating widgets in Flutter and components within our game, such as player, enemy, background, consumables, etc. The book also shows you how to add sprites, render images, setup animation, and much more.

Flame Game Development is perfect for the novice eager to gain hands-on knowledge of this exciting game engine's library to create a simple 2D game. 

What You'll Learn

• Apply Flutter coding skills to game development
• Developgames that can be played on all platforms
• Create your first 2D game using Flame

Who This Book Is For

Beginners who want to learn how to develop games on Flame and create their first 2D game with Flutter.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Front Matter
• 1. Create a Project in Flutter and Add Flame
• 2. Flame Basics
• 3. Flame Fundamentals
• 4. Game 1: Meteor Shower
• 5. Background Color and Image
• 6. Tiled Background
• 7. Game 2: Jump Between Tiles
• 8. Game 2: Many Experiments
• 9. Game 3: Move XY
• 10. Game 3: Enemies
• 11. Game 4: Plants vs. Zombies
• 12. Game 4: Many Experiments
• 13. Game 5: Parallax Backgrounds
• 14. Audio
• Back Matter