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Started by Catkill April 19, 2009 05:57 AM

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Catkill

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April 19, 2009 05:57 AM

Anyone know of a good way to get started game programming in java? id like to do proper applications not just applets found alot of tutorials on applets but none on applications Cheers Catkill

Trihex

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April 19, 2009 09:00 AM

Check out jMonkey or Ardor3D

Ardor 3D is a branch of the jMonkey engine started by the original founders. It isn't as feature complete at jMonkey, but does things in a slighty cleaner and better way.

Real desktop application games have been created with jMonkey, so it should help you along.

Eric ArmstrongTrihex Softwarewww.trihex.com

castever

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April 19, 2009 09:21 AM

Try Slick2D; I just started game programming and ran across this library; it is built on top of LWJGL, so there are native libraries involved, but it takes care of all the boiler plate stuff for you.

There are a few tutorials to get you started in the wiki and the forums are active.

http://www.slick.cokeandcode.com
http://lwjgl.org/