Hi,
This is my first post here. I program in Java for about 5 years now (2 years professionaly) but I have always been close to the web programming side of Java. I’m starting to devote some of my free time to desktop games programming in java as a hobby. I wanted to know if someone could give me some advices on technologies or frameworks I should try to learn. I’m currently reading the book “Killer Game Programming In Java”. What other things should I try to read about?
Thanks
Searching the forums will turn up a lot of suggestions, but in addition to the book you’re reading now ( which I found to be a good reference as I’m learning ) the examples and walk thrus on http://www.cokeandcode.com are great. It’s not targeted at someone that is 100% new to Java, but rather someone that has at least a basic understanding of the language and is willing to learn.
I find his Asteroids demo really good and am working on using it as a model for creating a basic framework for exploring my own ideas.
If you also want to learn OpenGL, you can use LWJGL or JOGL. You can go to http://nehe.gamedev.net to get tutorials on OpenGL. The tutorials are in C, but there is source code available in Java for both JOGL and LWJGL.