Building Games with Flutter. The ultimate guide to creating multiplatform games using the Flame engine in Flutter 3

Cover
Title Page
Copyright and credits
Contributors
About the reviewers
Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1: Game Basics
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Flutter Games
	Technical requirements
	Working with Flutter
	Using Dart
		Compilation types
		Hot reload
		Native bridge
		Garbage collection
		Thread control
	Summarizing the book
		Flame
		Designing a game
		Graphics
		Input
		Sounds
		Level design
		Cross-platform games
		Advanced graphics effects
		Game AI
		Finishing the game
	Creating a simple example animation
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 2: Working with the Flame Engine
	Technical requirements
	Organizing the assets in your game
	Adding the game loop
		Update
		Render
	Working with components
		FlameGame
		Converting our code to use components
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 3: Building a Game Design
	Planning a game
	Designing the game screens
	Summary
	Questions
Part 2: Graphics and Sound
Chapter 4: Drawing and Animating Graphics
	Technical requirements
	Drawing on the screen
	Working with sprite animation
	Moving a sprite around the screen
	Colliding with other sprites
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 5: Moving the Graphics with Input
	Technical requirements
	Drawing onscreen controls
	Moving our character with onscreen controls
	Moving our character with touch
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 6: Playing Sound Effects and Music
	Technical requirements
	Playing background music
	Playing sound effects
	Controlling the volume
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 7: Designing Your Own Levels
	Technical requirements
	Introduction to Tiled
	Loading a tile map
	Adding dynamic objects to the map
	Understanding map navigation
	Detecting tile collisions
		Understanding collisions
		Implementing collisions
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 8: Scaling the Game for Web and Desktop
	Technical requirements
	Building the game for the web and desktop
		Setting the new screen boundary
		Fixing the sprites
		Fixing the coin and water components
		Fixing the background and tile map
		Fixing the HUD components
	Setting background music
	Setting Flutter Web build parameters
	Navigating with key events
	Summary
	Questions
Part 3: Advanced Games Programming
Chapter 9: Implementing Advanced Graphics Effects
	Technical requirements
	What are particle effects?
	Animating with particles
	Creating shadows with layers
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 10: Making Intelligent Enemies with AI
	Technical requirements
	Making enemies chase the player
	Navigating obstacles with pathfinding
	Summary
	Questions
Chapter 11: Finishing the Game
	Technical requirements
	Wrapping up the game
		Adding a menu screen
		Adding a settings screen
		Adding a game over screen
		Compiling all screens with navigation routes and music volume
	Monetizing your game
		Adverts
		In-app purchases
		Purchase
	What else should I learn?
		Forge2d
		Nakama
		Rive
		What games shall I make?
	Where to get help?
	Summary
	Questions
Appendix: Answers
Index
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