Where can I find good java Game Dev Tutorials?

I know this question must have been asked a million times, but when i search to find good tutorials

all i find are tutorials that only teach you how to make a specific game. What i am looking for is a

tutorial that shows you in great detail how to do one specific thing such as: Player input handling,

AI path-finding, rendering text to the screen, game loop, rendering graphics, and sound. I would like

to learn this way a lot more, because this way i would understand what I am doing a lot more, and

wouldn't just be copying the code and learning nothing. I have inferred that if I start this way, then

move onto learning how to make specific games like a platformer, that I would improve overall.

Thanks in advance to anyone who answers .

As you described, there are many tutorials that teach a specific game. You follow the exact instructions and you get an exact result. That type of tutorial has only limited usefulness, it cannot be applied to other situations.

There are more general education topics where they teach you a theory and you are expected to interpret the theory and apply it to your own situation. These take more work but the theory can be applied to a wide range of situations.

For input handlers the guides will give general guidance on the theory, explaining how you can use a tool to accept input and generally translate it into events for another system to consume, but ultimately you will need to figure out how to adapt those systems to something specific to your game.

Or they will explain path finding algorithms like a* ("A star") that are great for games generally for finding paths from one point to another point. No matter how detailed the tutorial is, you still need to adapt for your own data structures and your own needs.

I've done a full tutorial series covering pretty much everything you just described

Thanks I'll check them out

My I suggest you study the source code from my book, "Fundamental 2D game programming with Java."

https://github.com/TimothyWrightSoftware/Fundamental-2D-Game-Programming-With-Java

I already have this book, and the content separation such as keyboard handling is very good, but not best for beginners.

As frob said, if you have problems, feel free to ask for advice for some troublesome part

I will whenever a problem arises that i deem worthy of your guys expertise, but for now i'll try to find the answer myself for learning purposes.