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Hiho!
 

I am a game designer student who started working with box2d and Libgdx recently. My game idea relies on Box2D heavily, so I spent about a week learning Box2dWeb (which is the JavaScript port of Box2d), and learned hopefully most of the things that I am going to need

in the development process. You can see the end result here. 

 

When I got done with this, I took a dive into libgdx. Read a lot of tutorials and documentation, and managed to get most of the things already working, but I am stuck with the pixel to meter (and vica-versa) scaling system, therefore I can't get it working on my Android device.

 

Using Box2dWeb I could solve the scaling problem by setting up a scale variable, and dividing and multiplying with it. According to the web, 30pixel should be equivalent 1 meter, so I did the following:

SCALE = 30;

...

var bodyDef			= new box2d.b2BodyDef();
    bodyDef.type		= box2d.b2Body.b2_staticBody;	
    bodyDef.position.x	        = 400 / SCALE; 
    bodyDef.position.y	        = 600 / SCALE;
    bodyDef.userData            = 'Ground';

fixDef.shape = new box2d.b2CircleShape(50 / SCALE);

 

 

And after assigning a bitmap to it, it matched the shape of the box!

Hiho!
 

I am a game designer student who started working with box2d and Libgdx recently. My game idea relies on Box2D heavily, so I spent about a week learning Box2dWeb (which is the JavaScript port of Box2d), and learned hopefully most of the things that I am going to need

in the development process. You can see the end result here. 

 

When I got done with this, I took a dive into libgdx. Read a lot of tutorials and documentation, and managed to get most of the things already working, but I am stuck with the pixel to meter (and vica-versa) scaling system, therefore I can't get it working on my Android device.

 

Using Box2dWeb I could solve the scaling problem by setting up a scale variable, and dividing and multiplying with it. According to the web, 30pixel should be equivalent 1 meter, so I did the following:

SCALE = 30;

...

var bodyDef			= new box2d.b2BodyDef();
    bodyDef.type		= box2d.b2Body.b2_staticBody;	
    bodyDef.position.x	        = 400 / SCALE; 
    bodyDef.position.y	        = 600 / SCALE;
    bodyDef.userData            = 'Ground';

fixDef.shape  = new box2d.b2CircleShape(50 / SCALE);

Hello gamedevs out there!

First of all, I have to admit that I'm totally new to game development. So please, don't eat me.

I know the basics of c# (handling files and data, structured arrays, kinda have some idea about classes and methods, but I ain't that sure about it yet.), because I had to use it on my matura exam. Well, and now, I would like to make a game. The main goal is that the game should run on the most popular platforms (Android, iOS mainly, but I'd be happy if it could be ran on web also). I've done some research, but I'm still not sure about which language I should choose.

XNA with MonoGame?
Java?
c++?

The game would be 2D, so if the engine doesn't support 3D then it's not a problem.

Thank you!