Froyo

If the game is simple, you can use the .ini file format. Editing is also simple, because it can be done with a text editor.

Thanks, I know A LOT of games use ini, but honestly have never edited one, what are the advantages? surley if it is simply writing values to the file, i will come across the same uglyness of writing to a txt file and again can easily get a little sloppy.

 

Are there any good web-tutorials on ini? quick google, didnt really show any promises :/

 

Thanks though

You shouldn't need a tutorial to make INI files, they're pretty simple and informal. They're just plain text files with name-value pairs.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INI_file

 

As far as integrating it with C++, just stream to write/read file from the file.

Literally every question you posted can be found on these forums. I don't mean to be rude, but use the search feature so somebody else doesn't have to for you. These threads come about very often and have been answered countless times before.

I really need to find a good tutorial like this for Java. The ones I've looked at haven't been much help.. maybe it's just me though.

Java for Dummies helped me learn pretty quickly, but I also had a pretty deep knowledge in other programming languages.

As far as gaming is concerned, you should try reading "Killer Game Programming". It's pretty old but it is still very helpful.

http://fivedots.coe.psu.ac.th/~ad/jg/

I've had pretty good results with Thread.sleep() but I haven't tried using a timer so I can't speak about that.

I had a 2D game with a top-down view (like Zelda LttP or Pokemon) and I've ran it for 45 minutes to an hour with 0 frames lost at 30 frames (and game.updates()) per second. Haven't tried it any higher but that's only because I don't have a reason to.