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#1

Hi everyone !

I’ve made this little pong game for a friend of mine who would like to teach how to make games with java and opengl. On my computer and his one it works great, but can you test it and tell me if you encounter any crashes or bugs ?

Sorry for the ZIP package, but I don’t know how to use webstart at this time (Thanks for Kevin Glass for his great webstart tutorial on the java.net wiki, I will try to use it to make a webstartable version).

Here is the package : Clicky. You must run the GLPong class and have LWJGL 0.9 installed to make things work !

As I said before, this game has been used for teaching pupose, and I plan to write a complete tutorial about the game to teach to beginners how to start with small games in lwjgl. Do you thing it could be useful or do I lose my time ?

Thanks in advance.

Chman

edit: E and D keys for player one, and Up and Down keys for player 2 :wink:

#2

guests arriving soon - so just a short comment:

[quote]I plan to write a complete tutorial about the game to teach to beginners how to start with small games in lwjgl. Do you thing it could be useful or do I lose my time ?
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Since the lwjgl site is currently devoid of any lwjgl/ogl tutorials, I would very much welcome it - provided we can mirror it on lwjgl.org (or the very least link to it).

#3

[quote]I would very much welcome it.
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Ok so here I go :wink:

#4

If you want to do it for JGF (doesn’t prevent you from mirroring it elsewhere once it’s done) I’ll find you an editor to correct grammar, give feedback etc.

#5

[quote]If you want to do it for JGF (doesn’t prevent you from mirroring it elsewhere once it’s done) I’ll find you an editor to correct grammar, give feedback etc.
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Ok, when it’ll be finished, I will first post it on my website and then I’ll send you the full article (I don’t want to see it only on JGF for some reason, but anyway JGF is becoming an interesting website for java resources ! You should change the global design, I think…).

Thanks for your interest blah^3 !

Chman

#6

The point is that if it goes on JGF it has to be edited, and that’s a process involving you (the author) and someone else (an editor) discussing and agreeing on changes etc.

As suggested by William D, for JGF version 3 we’re also planning to have a “non-edited, external articles” section too, although this will always play somewhat second fiddle simply because we won’t have any way of doing quality control…

#7

[quote]The point is that if it goes on JGF it has to be edited, and that’s a process involving you (the author) and someone else (an editor) discussing and agreeing on changes etc.
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I’m ready for that :slight_smile: I’ll format the article as you wish !

Else, totally off-topic, I’m waiting for a confirmation for a little job, as a pigist in a magazine called Login which is a good french mag for linux/bsd/windows programming… I’ll surely talk about OpenGL and maybe LWJGL !

Chman