Can anyone give me a decent tutorial that teaches how to make games not just make a ball move from left to right ow and plz no applets just desktop games
thx.
The step up from just bouncing a ball around the screen would be pong, at which point you have a game. Easily turned into Breakout and then Arkanoid if you’re so inclined.
If you’re looking for something a little meatier, there’s a Space Invaders over at http://www.cokeandcode.com/info/tut2d.html which is more like an annotated walk through a codebase rather than a “proper” tutorial, but it is something anyway.
If you’re looking to make Minecraft as your first project, forget it. It was at least Notch’s 100th project or so.
hehe thx i was inspired by notch but i wanted to start out 2d like his ludum dare project minicraft stuff like that and thx for the other tut bout space invader im checking it out right now.
Check out the youtube videos by TheJavaHub: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6E90696571998DC2&feature=playlist-comment. They are very beginner friendly java game development videos and the only requirement is of course, knowing java. I’m going through them now and they seem much better/easier for a beginner than the zetcode and cokeandcode tutorials.
cool thx im checking that out i really appreciate all you guys help.