LibGDX Game Development Essentials

Juwal Bose is a game developer, game designer, and technology consultant from the incredibly beautiful state of Kerala in India. He is an active figure in social media and game development SIGs, and he never misses a chance to speak at technical conferences and BarCamps. He conducts technical workshops for engineering students at professional colleges as part of open source initiatives. Juwal is the Director at Csharks Games and Solutions Pvt. Ltd., where he manages research and development, training, and pipeline integration. He has been developing games since 2004 using different technologies, such as ActionScript, Objective-C, Java, Unity, LibGDX, Cocos2D, OpenFL, Unity, and Starling. His team has created more than 400 games to date, and many of the job management games are listed at the top of leading portals worldwide. He was involved in the development of more than 20 LibGDX games, primarily for the Android platform. Juwal writes game development tutorials for GameDevTuts+ and manages the blog of Csharks. His isometric tutorial for GameDevTuts+ was well received and is considered a thorough guide for developing tile-based isometric games. This is his second book and he aims to keep writing and sharing his 10 years of game development experience through more books. His first book, Starling Game Development Essentials, Packt Publishing, was on another exceptional cross-platform game development framework—Starling. Juwal is a voracious reader and likes to travel. His future plans also include writing fiction.