What you need for this book

Throughout the book, I have mentioned various technologies and tools that can help at certain stages in the development cycle. I have recommended mostly free software tools and dependencies. However, keep in mind that some may require a separate license for commercial purposes. As a testament to the open source community, I created BludBourne entirely from these free resources.

LibGDX is a cross-platform game development framework that can run on a Windows PC, Linux, Android device, or Mac OS X. The development for this book specifically supports Windows (7/8), so keep this in mind when using the source for BludBourne as there may be some platform-specific considerations outside of Windows.

As a quick summary of tools and libraries used for this book, I have listed them here (may not be an exhaustive list):

• LibGDX (v1.5.5): http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/download.html
• Java Development Kit (v1.7): http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
• Git: http://git-scm.com/downloads
• SmartGit (v6.5.9): http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/download
• IntelliJ IDEA IDE (v14.1.1): http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
• Tiled (v0.11.0): http://www.mapeditor.org/download.html
• libgdx-texturepacker-gui (v3.2.0): http://code.google.com/p/libgdx-texturepacker-gui/
• Android Studio (v1.0): http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#Other
• Audacity (2.0.3): http://audacityteam.org/download
• Packr: http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/packr
• Proguard (5.2.1): http://proguard.sourceforge.net/

The installation and usage instructions for additional tools are provided where necessary.