JAVA GAME DEVELOPMENT?

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Well... The reason Java indie programing has died out as of late is that flash is becoming easier and more accessible and the same reason Java has always had problems with: It eats up too much cpu. Period. But... If you are still insisting on learning java, go to one of these places may help. Actually, ruby is a relatively newer language and it seems to be more convenient now days, but as always, I will advise you to learn C first, so you get a good grasp on programming at first. Anywhom, here are your links!

http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/
USE THIS, the basic tutorials are very well done. I learned a bit when I was studying Java on a whim.
http://www.javabeginner.com/
Never used this before, but it looks promising.
http://www.freejavaguide.com/corejava.htm
As before, never used it before. But, it does look promising.

As with all programming languages, Always remember to keep your code clean. I can never say that enough. Messy code leads to disaster and magical arrays being called up raining unknown amounts of doom on your project. Also, use a search engine to find out more information, as for web based languages like Java, the tutorials and guides are near infinite. I wish you good luck, sir.

author=pyrodoom
All the games I've played using java don't end up good, unless your a master, don't waste anyone's time. I know I sound like an asshole saying that, but trust me...it's not pretty.

I like to bring to attention a little (or maybe well known, I don't know any more.) java game called deeper realm heroes. It is a decent, abliet ugly, graphical rougelike. So basically, java can make "decent" games, with minimal knowledge.

author=psy_wombats
Deep Realm Heroes received a total overhaul and is now Golden Age: Endless Dungeon, which is probably the most advanced game I've strung together in Java. Also please note that it wasn't "minimal knowledge" that held DRH back but rather that I had only a week to work on it.

But, having made that in Java, I can say now I would've much rather done it in Flash. Java's distribution was ideal in like, the 90's, but right now it's a ton of pain to sort out all the different problems on different systems. At first keyboard input was screwy on Mac, then the Java 6.x people couldn't get the animated graphics, etc. I don't have the hardware or manpower necessary to test everything. You're better off downloading Flixel or something and making Flash games. ...and it's /very/ possible to be using this sort of stuff at 13, so don't be discouraged.

Ah, forgive me. I have not seen it in years and I think I have the 7drl release floating around my hard disk somewhere. Did not mean to imply that it was minimal knowledge either, I was trying to display an example of one of the easier to program game type out there: rouge-likes. I hope you did not take any insult to my comment, and it is nice to see you are continuing the project with a overhaul. I will make sure to check that out.

With that aside, I agree with psy_wombats up there. Use fixel and make yourself a game fast. Here is the link for the main site: http://flixel.org/
Best of luck!

I'd say Minecraft is a very successful game created with Java.

I've been accustomed to Java for about two years now, but I haven't seen any big connection to game creation. That was one of the reason I got into it. My programming so far has only been on back-end logic of web-systems and so. Hasn't been enough with the graphical tools.

Yeah, er, hello? Android apps?

Java's probably one of the easier programming languages to learn largely due to all the resources available.

Here's a really good step-by-step tutorial on creating a Pong game in Java.

Trust me on this one psy_wombats knows his stuff on this - I was amazed at the work and the speed he did Golden Age: Endless Dungeon with me.

Here is the tutorial I was thinking of:
http://zetcode.com/tutorials/javagamestutorial/