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Fork, star and contribute to our project!"> <div class="page__inner-wrap"> <section class="page__content e-content" itemprop="text"> <h1 id="how-to-get-started-with-libgdx">How to get started with libGDX?</h1> <p class="notice">libGDX offers a <a href="/wiki/start/project-generation">setup tool</a>, which automatically creates a project and downloads everything necessary.</p> <p>To get started, please take a look at our <strong><a href="/wiki/start/setup">Setup Instructions</a></strong> page, which walks you through the process of <strong>creating your very first libGDX project</strong> using our setup tool. After that, we highly recommend our <strong><a href="/wiki/start/a-simple-game">A Simple Game</a></strong> and <a href="/wiki/start/simple-game-extended">Extending the Simple Game</a> pages. If you鈥檙e completely new to game dev and have never developed a game before, this (even more straight-forward) <a href="https://colourtann.github.io/HelloLibgdx/">tutorial</a> by tann is also worth a look as an alternative.</p> <p>From then on, our <a href="/wiki/">wiki</a> is your best companion: it provides extensive documentation on nearly every feature offered by libGDX. For any further questions, our official <a href="/community/">Discord server</a> is good starting point.</p> <p>If you want to explore some other (third-party) tutorials or inspect some demos/other open source libGDX games for reference, this <a href="/wiki/start/demos-and-tutorials">wiki article</a> is the right place to start looking.</p> <h1 id="documentation">Documentation</h1> <p>The libGDX codebase is documented in two ways:</p> <ul> <li>In our <a href="/wiki/">Wiki</a></li> <li>And via <a href="https://javadoc.io/doc/com.badlogicgames.gdx">Javadocs</a></li> </ul> <p class="notice">Please note that we recently took down the Javadocs hosted on libgdx.badlogicgames.com. The docs can <strong>now be found on <a href="https://javadoc.io/doc/com.badlogicgames.gdx">javadoc.io</a></strong>.</p> <h1 id="tools--libraries">Tools & Libraries</h1> <p>There are different tools and libraries that make the development process for libGDX easier. See our <strong><a href="/dev/tools/">Tools List</a></strong> for some of the most commonly used tools.</p> <p>A curated list of our favourite libraries can be found at <strong><a href="https://github.com/rafaskb/awesome-libgdx#readme">Awesome-libGDX</a></strong>. On our Discord server we also have an extensive collection of libGDX-centered libraries that are currently work in progress.</p> <h1 id="contributing-to-libgdx">Contributing to libGDX</h1> <p>Contributing to libGDX can come in a few different forms: you can <a href="/dev/issues/">report issues</a>, help out on our <a href="/community/">Discord</a>, pledge to the <a href="/funding/">Patreon page</a>, or <a href="/dev/contributing/">submit code and documentation back to the project</a> on GitHub. 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