https://github.com/madhawav/balanceitspace
Code release of my Android game Balance IT Space
https://github.com/madhawav/balanceitspace
android game-development game-engine graphics opengl-es
Last synced: 2 months ago
JSON representation
Code release of my Android game Balance IT Space
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/madhawav/balanceitspace
- Owner: madhawav
- Created: 2021-02-27T09:58:29.000Z (over 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2021-04-20T08:00:17.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-02-10T21:36:38.769Z (4 months ago)
- Topics: android, game-development, game-engine, graphics, opengl-es
- Language: Java
- Homepage:
- Size: 7.29 MB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
-
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.MD
Awesome Lists containing this project
README
# Balance IT - Space (Re-master)
This code repository is on active development. The gameplay stage is completed and the game is playable.
This project is a refactored code release of my Android game Balance IT - Space.
I made this game back in 2012, and that version is still [available in the Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.renovelabz.balanceit&hl=en_CA).
It's an Android accelerometer sensor game that works well even on modern phones. The following video showcases this game.
[](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqSM7fWyW5M)
Having looked at my decade-old code written before my bachelor's, I decided that a public release requires a major code refactoring.
This code repository is a re-implementation of that same game using a better-designed code base.
So far, I have completed the implementation of the game-play stage and the game-over screen.
The development of menus is future work.
As before, everything is developed directly on top of the OpenGL ES library available with Android SDK using Java.
I have developed a new game engine layer that implements low-level features, isolating the game code from the Android OpenGL ES platform.
The following screenshots are from the newly developed version.
The codebase consists of two sections:
1) [The Game](app/src/main/java/io/github/madhawav/balanceit): Implements the gameplay scene, game over scene and the gameplay logic.
2) [The Game Engine](app/src/main/java/io/github/madhawav/gameengine): Consists of core game engine which provides onUpdate and onRender calls. The graphics package wraps OpenGL ES 2.0 library using a 3D graphics engine and a sprite engine. Multi-scene package allow swapping between scenes (E.g. gameplay scene, game over scene). The UI package implements common UI elements such as Label, ImageButton, Image etc.
## How to compile the code?
1) Setup gradle wrapper 6.5.
```bash
gradle wrapper --gradle-version 6.5
```
2) Run `./gradlew build`. The apk file will be generated at `app/build/outputs/apk` directory.
Alternatively, you can open the project directory using Android Studio after completing the step 1.
## Tests
We use Android Instrumentation Tests.
1) Connect a device that can be used to run instrumentation tests.
2) Run `./gradlew connectedAndroidTest` to run Android Instrumentation Tests.