2-D RPG... @_@

Hi everyone. I am new to this board but I been reading alot of the topics here. Right now, I have to do a project on a 2-D (Top view) RPG game. My basic idea is putting the main game screen on the left and another menu screen on the right. Right now, I have no idea how to do a grid tile engine or using what layout to place my buttons on the right. If you guys have time to help me. I would greatly appriciate it. I’ve been searching for 3 hours now and I still havn’t found anything that I understand. Theres also no tutorials that i found >_< Sorry and thanks.

Have you looked at Kev’s coke and code tutorials?

www.cokeandcode.com

this forum is filled with 2d tile questions like this, look it up
Don’t know exactly where but I know someone make a small scroll 2d tile game that has only black boxes for obsticles, the point was to show how scrolling is simple…

thanks … ya i tried searching … i looked at alot of examples but for me … I dunt realli understand them.

If you arent following coke and code I need to ask:

(1) What kind of Java coding expereince do you have, if any?

(2) What dont you undersstand?

They are pretty basic…