Another hopeless newbie question from me! ;D
I’ve been having a quick look at all the lwjgl examples I could get my hands on, but they all seem to be 3d. How suitable is lwjgl for creating 2d tile based games, and are there any examples I could look at, or is there anyone who could give me a little nudge in the right direction?
Much appreciated. 
A 2D tile-based game shouldn’t be a problem. While OpenGL is used frequently for 3D graphics, it’s a general graphics library that works well in 2D too: it provides a 2D orthogonal viewing transform, 2D vertices etc, you can disable the Z-buffer and such if you really don’t need them, and textured polygons tend to render very fast on today’s hardware.
GameDev have a load of articles on writing tile-based games here:
http://www.gamedev.net/reference/list.asp?categoryid=44
You’ll need to learn how to draw textured polygons:
http://nate.scuzzy.net/docs/texture/
That should give you a good start!
I’ve already written a 2D tile-based game engine, and it seems to work just brilliantly. It’s possibly going to be my next game, or maybe one for the start of 2004 - “Quest for the Holy Grail”.
Cas
Is this the SPGL from Sourceforge?
And if yes, would you mind in giving clueless newbies like me a few hints in getting started with SPGL?
Any tips welcome 
Well, rule no. 1 with the SPGL is that I can break it whenever I feel like it But it exists mainly as a source of know-how: you can learn how to do some things with it and write your own code if you like based on it.
If you actually want to use it - well, that’s another story! I’ve not got enough time to explain how it works right now because I’m dead busy coding. Maybe later in the year.
Cas
Sneaking is fine for me. And I do understand that you have better things to do (finishing Alien Flux) than writing documentation ;D