Game Zealot Want Start Game Programming

??? Me , from China ,want to start java game programming.
Any Suggestion?

Start from the beginning. ;D

Show me the BEGINNING

First get a book and learn the basics.

Then head over to… http://grexengine.com/sections/externalgames/

Check out the articles section there (Space Invaders 101).

And… this one:
http://www.java-gaming.org/cgi-bin/JGNetForums/YaBB.cgi?board=2D;action=display;num=1097094589

Books not so easy to come by in China.

Cas :slight_smile:

Books not so easy to come by in China.

My definition of books doesn’t exclude digital ones. :wink:

There are two pretty good html books, but they are both german… mh… well there is an english one two… somewhere, by Bruce E…something, but it wasn’t that good (imo).

Well, I prefer those oldschool thingies made out of paper ;D

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/

I used it to learn java and found it’s pretty good.

I also found this:
http://www.cug.edu.cn/fwzn/wlzx/wlfw/java/JAVA%20Tutorial(Chinese)/

… but I have no idea if it’s any good ::slight_smile:

It is difficult to find some good books on game programming in China.
I just want to know , to start , what kind of tech I need.

Get the JDK from http://java.sun.com
Get the Eclipse IDE from http://www.eclipse.org
Then look at Kev Glass’ Space Invaders tutorials here: http://www.cokeandcode.com/index.php?page=resources
When you are feeling advanced get the LWJGL from http://www.lwjgl.org and learn OpenGL at NeHe here: http://nehe.gamedev.net/ (most tutorials ported to LWJGL so far I think)

Cas :slight_smile:

Got It :smiley:
Thanks!

[quote] ??? Me , from China ,want to start java game programming.
Any Suggestion?
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Yes, you might type. I’m from China (or Xian), and I would like to learn a java programming. I would like to learn somenthing about game programming as well. Do you have any recommendations for start?

And you could add some sentences on what have you been able to do so far. Something like downloading JDK (J2SDK) 5.0 and so on.

You should Google for “Bruce Eckel” or “Thinking in Java” and use that in combination with the Java Tutorial.

There is insane amount of programming resources, on the Internet. Google is your friend, and I doubt Chinese would block it in that direction. Alas I’m yet to find a free book about English, and book about History.

BTW are somewhere available books from the Erick Hobsbawm? Only the last of that three was released here, and I’d like to compare it to the English original.