External tutorials

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General Tutorial Websites

These are webpages where individuals or companies write about their experience with libGDX from a technical perspective. Some of the tutorials present in these pages are also referenced below in more topic specific sections but if you're just looking to some websites where people talk about their general experiences with libGDX you should start here.

• GameFromScratch.com Complete LibGDX Tutorial Series - http://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/LibGDX-Tutorial-series.aspx
• Aurelien's Blog - http://www.aurelienribon.com/blog/
• MoribitoTechX's website - http://moribitotechx.blogspot.pt/p/tutorial-series-libgdx-mtx.html (this blog only open to invited readers)
• Gemserk's blog - http://blog.gemserk.com/
• Gustavo Steigert's personal blog - http://steigert.blogspot.pt/
• Rotating Canvas, an indie developers group webpage - http://rotatingcanvas.com/category/tutorials/
• Impaler's personal webpage - http://obviam.net
• Group of students from Sweden - http://www.dagger.se/#home
• LibGDX video tutorials 1 - http://www.youtube.com/dermetfan
• LibGDX video tutorials 2 - https://www.youtube.com/ForeignGuyMike
• GameFromScratch LibGDX Video Tutorial series - http://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/LibGDX-Video-Tutorial-Series.aspx
• bitowl's tutorials - http://bitowl.de/tag/tutorial/
• Zombie Bird - http://www.kilobolt.com/zombie-bird-tutorial-flappy-bird-remake.html
• Libgdx y Box2D Tutoriales (en español) - http://tutoriales.tiarsoft.com
• LibGdx en español (spanish) http://libgdxspain.blogspot.com
• Mets-Blog | Libgdx - http://www.mets-blog.com/category/libgdx/
• Xoppa's blog - http://blog.xoppa.com
• libgdx.cn - http://www.libgdx.cn (Chinese)
• Martian Run! Multi-part tutorial - http://williammora.com/a-running-game-with-libgdx-part-1/
• Fighting Kitten blog (LibGDX, gdxAI) - http://fightingkitten.webcindario.com/
• Libgdx tutorials on specific topics - http://libgdx.heerbann.com
• Guide to creating a Libgdx game, step by step http://tutorials.boondog.xyz/

Topic Specific Tutorials

Porting your project to Windows 8.1 Desktop/Tablet and Phone

• http://www.badlogicgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=14766

Integrating Google Play Game Services

• http://helios.hud.ac.uk/u1070589/blog/?p=202

AdMob integration for LibGDX Android projects

• http://norakomi.com/tutorial_admob_introduction.php

Setup

• Gradle setup - http://duckseason.mobi/how-to-setup-gradle-for-existing-libgdx-multi-project-using-the-google-android-plug-in-2/

Internationalization

Libgdx offers official support for Internationalization and Localization since version 1.1.0. This is the recommended approach from now on. However, if you're using an older version of Libgdx you might be interested in the following articles:

• http://siondream.com/blog/games/internationalization-for-libgdx-projects/
• http://blog.gemserk.com/2012/05/23/android-and-desktop-games-internationalization-using-java-and-libgdx/

Lighting

• Normal Mapping - http://www.java-gaming.org/topics/glsl-using-normal-maps-to-illuminate-a-2d-texture-libgdx/27516/view.html
• Ambient lighting - http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php?topic=28685.0
• Pulsing fire light effect : http://www.alcove-games.com/new-tutorial-glsl-shaders-to-achieve-a-nice-fire-effect/

Menus

• http://javagamexyz.blogspot.pt/2013/04/user-interface-menus-using-libgdx.html
• http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXY8okVWvwZ0Inrp5YMmYEaoh1FBXBJ1J

Performance Related

• Texture Packer - http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=2495 (also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texture_atlas)
• Image Formats - http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/48304/which-image-format-is-more-memory-efficient-png-jpeg-or-gif
• Loading resources or do heavy stuff after showing first Screen - http://duckseason.mobi/heavy-background-processes-libgdxwhile-showing-splash-screen/

Post-Processing

• https://github.com/manuelbua/libgdx-contribs

Shaders

https://github.com/mattdesl/lwjgl-basics/wiki

Wiki containing various examples and information about Shaders. There is some information that is libGDX specific and some that is generic and that you can reuse in libGDX as well.

https://bitbucket.org/Thotep/gdx-shaders/wiki/Home

This is a small library to make using shaders and frame-buffers easier in libgdx. Comes with a collection of sample GLSL shaders.

• Water wobbling effect in tiled map: http://www.alcove-games.com/new-tutorial-vertex-shader-for-tiled-water/
• Shader video tutorial series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXY8okVWvwZ1_aaMnBU5HF4UP3hHL60Vy

Online Shader Tools

This websites will let you play with WebGL (provided your browser supports it) and see the code behind it.

• http://glsl.heroku.com/
• https://www.shadertoy.com/

Tile based games

• Video tutorial series on creating a tile game prototype: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXY8okVWvwZ0qmqSBhOtqYRjzWtUCWylb
• gdx-tiled-preprocessor video tutorial: http://youtu.be/q5D-TzlCRPM (Warning: the gdx-tiled-preprocessor was merged into gdx-tools)
• Tiled + Box2d (En español): http://tutoriales.tiarsoft.com/2014/10/tiled-box2d-parte-1.html
• Generating random tiled maps http://tutorials.boondog.xyz/2016/07/17/generating-random-maps/

External Tools & Frameworks

• http://www.codeandweb.com/texturepacker (Texturepacker)
• https://github.com/gemserk/animation4j (Animation 4J)
• https://code.google.com/p/java-universal-tween-engine/ (Tween Engine)
• https://github.com/cvayer/RubeLoader (Load RUBE scenes)
• https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/kryonet (Kryonet)
• http://www.mapeditor.org/ (Tiled)

Open-Source projects

These are interesting open-source projects found on the web that use libGDX. This list is intentionally kept as clean and interesting as possible (you won't see repeated projects nor Hello-World kind-of-games here).

• https://github.com/gunmetal313/gdx-skineditor (A skin editor for libGDX,fork by gunmetal)
• https://github.com/antionio/Dodge-The-Cars
• https://github.com/sandeel/Bushido-Blocks
• https://github.com/bompo/mgcube
• https://github.com/siondream/freegemas-gdx
• https://github.com/gemserk/angryships (Uses admob)
• https://github.com/blainerothrock/RipThroughTIme (Uses Tween engine)
• https://github.com/sednihp/Bomber-Run-libGDX
• https://github.com/crmaykish/SimpleCiv (Civilization Clone)
• https://github.com/gtomee/AudioSpectrumGDX (audio analyzer)
• https://github.com/xclam/ageoftower (Tower Defense Game)
• https://bitbucket.org/dermetfan/libgdx-utils (support library with some Box2D classes)
• https://github.com/aspic/libgdx-utils
• https://github.com/iluwatar/TicTactoe
• https://github.com/gemserk/libgdx-test-apps (has iOS component)
• https://github.com/krustnic/HorizontalSlidingPane (Angry-bird like side scrolling menu)
• https://github.com/Sgawrys/TechRTS
• https://github.com/Nushio/Unsealed (Uses Tiles)
• http://code.google.com/p/bomber-clone/source/browse/ (Bomberman clone with multiplayer)
• https://bitbucket.org/zelosfan/a-mazing-towerdefense (Simple Tower Defence)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=20260 (Simple 8 Bit-Like platformer)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=15341 (MONO - puzzle-like, with physics. Lovely aesthetics.)
• https://github.com/spilth/ld26-minimalism
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=3661 (Plays with Lights)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=5357 (Cornelis)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=7213 (Gut Buster Zombie Dash)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=11656 (Illumbox)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=16114 (Minga-Me)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=23252 (minimalism)
• https://github.com/jerrre/LD26-OIA/tree/master/src/nl/jerreav/OIA (OIA)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=3377 (Path Breaker)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=7570 (Triangulum)
• http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=8184 (Lack of Civilization)
• https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/spine-superspineboy (Super Spineboy)
• https://github.com/pierotofy/snappyfrog (Snappy Frog)
• https://github.com/rpgboss/rpgboss (RPG game editor based on libgdx)
• https://github.com/wmora/martianrun (2D running game. Uses AdMob and Google Play Game Services)
• https://github.com/gamedevpl/GdxCombat (2D mortal kombat like game)