In my previous post I have described a way to compile your project with a Maven style like project structure. Using that as basis I am busy rewriting my project Dune II – The Maker. This time I am using SDL. Because I have started over I thought of writing blog posts about my progress. […]
Note: This post offers a Windows JAR/DLL package. I have delivered a newer version, also for Linux/Mac OS X. Get them from here A long while ago I played around with Slick. A game library for Java. It offers easy 2d graphics drawing with the speed of OpenGL (by using LJWGL). It has much more […]
As I have promised in my previous post, I would post an example of small refactorings in order to greatly improve the readability and understandability of code. I own a little project called Dune II – The Maker, and I started writing it a little over 10 years ago. In those years I have learned […]
I have written a few games in the past. A recent example is Dune II – The Maker. I have written a platformer (in QuickBasic even..) and so forth. You may even consider RealBot a ‘game’ (although it is more a computer controlled opponent). I haven’t really tried to write any games in Java. Although […]
Recently I saw at Youtube someone telling about his view on game programming. His targetted audience was for those who want to create games, but have no clue how to start. He began with something along the line of “I’ve been programming games for 5 years, so I guess I could say I’m experienced“. That […]