Java 2D

Looking for tutorials on creating 2D games with either the built in 2D graphics library or and external library?

Thanks for the help, Happy Coding!

What exactly are you trying to learn to do?

On the surface, java2d doesn’t do much. You can draw pictures, text, shapes, and apply affine transforms. That’s about it.

I’ve made games before using Java2D but its been a while, like a year or so and i was looking for tutorials to get back into it.

Made click and drag games and such, brick breaker and pong but its been a while.

You know about our resource page, right?

http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php?action=resources

The two books listed at the top both use Java2D, as do several of the tutorials. They are a little dated, though. I’m wishing for more JavaFX tutorials myself, as JavaFX is much better than Java2D, from what experience I’ve had with both, so far.