Any good Online Tutorial sites?

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Hi guys, my first post on here so hope i posted in the correct place.

OK so my question is, as you can see by the title, do any of you know of any good tutorials?
I am not new to Java Programming, but i am new to game programming - I’ve asked for books for x-mas but wanted to get the basics under my belt before then. :slight_smile:
I Really enjoy programming and wanted to give Game Programming a go :slight_smile:

Any Suggestions will be very great-full; Hopefully for other people too.

Thanks
Harry

#2

As far as learning basic java or game specifics? There are plenty, but narrowing the field helps find what you need :slight_smile:

#3

Thanks for reply, no as i said i do know the basics and am familiar with Java, but wanted to move into Game Development? can you help

#4

Google/find these:

Coke and Code tutorials (all of them are a good read)
Killer game programming in java (some parts are outdated/extremely boring and unhelpful)
The articles and tutorials section in the forums (contains some good points for beginners. Read GAME LOOPS!)
Somewhere in the gameplay/game design board there is a topic called “Your first game (adventure/rpg like)”. Some parts are terrible, but the thing to get from that is the actual framework.

Hopefully that is enough to start.

Once you’ve learnt how to draw things, how to handle input, (you already know the java language), and I/O functions, everything else is design. (I think)

#5

Thanks :slight_smile: will check them out

#6

I wrote up a neat overview of the Java gaming scene a while back: http://www.java-gaming.org/topics/how-do-i-start-java-game-development/27156/msg/242610/view.html#msg242610

#7

i used the slick library and lwjgl :slight_smile:
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#8

www.thenewboston.com
www.youtube.com/mybringback
www.youtube.com/thechernoproject <----- very recomended

All are very good resources to learn from!!!

#9

hmm, thanks but neither of them have 2d Game Development? i think 2d will be best before 3d, and i have already followed all of thenewboston and dint learn anything apart from the slick library :slight_smile:

#10

ok at this point go hire!

this is the link of the profesor Dr. Andrew Davison
you will find his book and (killer game programming) all the caption in pdf free (the pdf not contain all is in the book)
if u can spend money, my advie is to buy it, this book is like a bible for a beginner

the first part of the book (13 captions) are on the implementinng 2D games from the scrach

http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/index.html

#11

brilliant thanks i will look into it :slight_smile:

#12

If you want to learn java, then check this out: http://iris.nyit.edu/~ffischma/Java%20For%20Dummies.pdf. But if you know java, and you want to learn game programming, then check out java2d, lwjgl (you might not know this, but minecraft was made using lwjgl :slight_smile: ), JMonkeyEngine or slick2d.