No idea where to start for game programming

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

I’ve been programming for about a year and a half now, and game programming is something I’ve wanted to do, but never got into because i wanted to learn more about java first. I was wondering if anyone might have some tutorials or tips they could tell me to get started. I know i want to make a side scrolling RPG, but when it comes to physics and all that, its a lot different than what i’m use too. I’ve been working mainly in JFrames, so this is all new to me. Any tutorials would be nice, they dont need to be too basic, I know a good amount about applets and such to manage.

Also, Ive been reading about lwjgl, and i wanted to install it, but theres no tutorials for how to install it with textpad (im aware of other compilers, thats just my personal preference), so if anyone knows how i could install it thatd also be great to know.

Thanks in advance for any replies
Tom

#2

Hi, you can find some java game programming tutorials here: http://www.cokeandcode.com/tutorials

#3

if you want to install lwjgl, then where it has all of the stuff that yo are supposed to put intot he compiler options, whre it is like -Djava and all of that, you just put that into your PATH.