PR like this would be good.

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#1

After playing Tribal Trouble (which ran really well on my old 800mhz laptop with a terrible on board ATI card) I’m sure Java is capable of producing good games.

But some PR like this from Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/msdnvideodev.mspx by Sun for Java would certainly be appreciated.

Microsoft seem determined to push c# on all fronts, whereas Sun come across as much more focused on the needs of corporate users.

Maybe they have good reason or I’ve just got the wrong impression. Anyway, back to Killer Game Programming in Java. Got to get my Java based MMO FPS finished this millennium :wink: Here’s hoping for a Java VM on the PS3 to kick start Java gaming too.

#2

I would say that is an accurate description of the over-all corporate mentality of the two companies in question.

#3

If only TPTB would give you free rein eh?

Cas :slight_smile:

#4

Ooh, those look interesting - I’ve mostly moved over to C# these days anyway, I kept with java for hobby sites (until I could find no-one to host JSP) and now I only really deal with it for game-writing stuff and I’ve been kind of thinking for a while on whether it’s worth going to the trouble of learning to use the DX runtime for .net - if those webcasts are useful, it might well be worth making the switch for that as well.

That said, I do quite like my game development stuff being a long way from my core Windows components - it would piss me right off if something I did playing with 3D development managed to break all my otherwise working games, something I’m pretty safe on with Java…