Free online courseAndroid - LibGDX - Super Mario Bros

Course Description

Turn Android Studio into your personal game studio and learn how to build a classic side-scrolling platformer experience with LibGDX. In this free online course, you will move from a clean project setup to a complete playable game, understanding how professional game code is structured and why each piece exists. Instead of relying on shortcuts, you will create a solid foundation with Game and Screen architecture, then make it look right on different devices by handling aspect ratios and choosing viewports that keep your world consistent across phones and tablets.

As your project grows, you will connect gameplay with a clean user interface by building a HUD using scene2d, keeping score and time in sync with what happens on screen. You will also learn how modern 2D games are authored visually and then brought to life in code by creating a level with a tile map editor and rendering it efficiently. From there, the course introduces Box2D to give your character and enemies real physical behavior, showing how to define bodies and fixtures, apply forces for movement and jumps, and manage collisions reliably with contact listeners and filters.

You will bring personality and responsiveness to the game through sprite sheets, animation state timing, and texture packing to keep assets organized and performant. The project goes beyond a simple character controller: you will implement interactive blocks, breakable bricks, items that spawn and move, power-ups that change the player state, and enemies with distinct behaviors like Goombas and turtles, including mechanics for stomping, getting hit, and game over flow. Sound effects and music are handled through an asset management approach so your project stays scalable and clean.

By the end, you will have a strong grasp of building a 2D Android game with LibGDX and a portfolio-ready project that demonstrates real game development skills: architecture, rendering, physics, UI, asset pipelines, and moment-to-moment gameplay logic. If you are aiming to break into game development or sharpen your programming with an engaging challenge, this course offers a practical, end-to-end path you can follow and reuse in your own original games.