Beginning Android 4 Games Development

Core Game Mechanics

We'd suggest you quickly install Abduction on your Android device or look up videos of this game on the Web. From this example, we can condense the core game mechanics of our game, which will be called Super Jumper. Here are some details:

• The protagonist is constantly jumping upward, moving from platform to platform. The game world spans multiple screens vertically.
• Horizontal movement can be controlled by tilting the phone to the left or the right.
• When the protagonist leaves one of the horizontal screen boundaries, he reenters the screen on the opposite side.
• Platforms can be static or moving horizontally.
• Some platforms will be pulverized randomly when the protagonist hits them.
• Along the way up, the protagonist can collect ...