Author Archives: padam
My new Mac Ubuntu :D
I have been using Ubuntu 10.o4 for last two weeks. I am loving it. I haven’t touched windows yet after installing Ubuntu 10.04 on dual boot system. Ubuntu has got everything for my requirements. Yesterday My Brother uploaded the picture of his new Ubuntu 10.04 look on facebook. He gave exact replica of mac os [...]
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Installing Nvidia Driver on Ubuntu 10.04
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. I liked 10.04 more than previous versions. Anyway here i’l guide how to install drivers manually for your nvidia card on Ubuntu 10.04. I have intel machine with Nvidia 9500 GT card.
While installing Nvidia Driver for my card i faced two primary problems:
1) I need To Stop/Kill [...]
Going Back to Old Silent Hill Days…….
I just finished playing Silent Hill 3 again. I remember, back those days when my friend got this game and we used to play it during late nights in a room keeping all lights off . This game gave us goosebumps during whole gameplay experience. Now again after years, this game still scares me [...]
LOST
These days i am busy with lots of things. I am working on a Game for Mobile Phones. This project is based on J2ME. Currently i have given the game a name “LOST” according to story and theme. Here is the video of my project. Well the video is just a testing of gameplay mechanics, [...]
Posted in games, java Tagged gaanza, gaanza games, j2me, j2me game, Lost, mobile game Leave a comment
2D Rain Effect
Hola Everyone.
I am working on a level for 2d game where i needed to add a rain effects. I am using Slick 2D library for making my 2d game. Before i started working on making 2D rain effect , i discussed this topic on slick 2d forum for how to get started ? Here [...]
Posted in Slick 2D, Tutorials, developer, java, opengl Tagged 2d rain effect, lwjgl, opengl, Slick 2D Leave a comment
Finding Nearest Sprite For 2D Collision
Hola EveryOne.
There are various methods/ways to detect a collision between two objects. Each having its own advantage and disadvantage and based on our requirement we implement one of the collsion detection algorithm.
Here i am not going to talk about collision algorithm. I am going to talk about determining the nearest object with which collision will [...]
Loading image/Texture Mapping in LWJGL
Hola everyone.
I am currently working on my own two game projects: one project is of mobile phone game and other is 2.5 or side-scrolling 3d game, not much sure. So for second project i am making an small engine that will be used to make 2.5D game or side scrolling 3d game, Just simple and [...]
Posted in Tutorials, developer, java, opengl Tagged loading image, loading image/texture mapping in lwjgl, lwjgl, texture mapping Leave a comment
Diving into Mobile Gaming !!
Recently my friends suggested me to make games for mobile phones. I haven’t done any formal course for mobile programming so i did a some search on mobile game development on google and gone through some articles like The Clash of Mobile Platforms: J2ME, ExEn, Mophun and WGE
I have a Nokia N70ME handset and most [...]
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Setting Up LWJGL with Netbeans
On Forums, people keeps asking about setting up lwjgl library with netbeans. So here i am going to show the steps to do that.
STEP 1: Go to Tools-> Libariries.Now create new library. Give it a name say “lwjgl21″.
STEP 2: Now we have to configure the library. Click the classpath tab, then click add jars, and [...]
Installing Vlc Player 1.1.4 on Ubuntu 10.04