Category Archives: java

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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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My New Game Project : Jungle Riddle

At present i am working on a 2d side-scrolling platform game. It started as a course project but now i want to extend it and make it large. I have used java and slick library to make this game project. I have put the game demo on my blog page. The project is still in development [...]
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Getting started making games with java !!

Okie still there are people who thinks java is slow for making commercial and serious games and java is just for casual games. But here i’l show you that java has lot more potential to make serious games. So now how to get started ??? What libraries or tools to use for making more efficient games [...]
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Is Java too slow for making AAA commercial games ??

In almost every game development forum i have seen people saying that java is too slow for making AAA commercial game titles. So is it true that commercial AAA tiles cannot be made using Java ????? Here i will tell u about a very amazingĀ  AAA tile that i recently played and has been made using [...]
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Installing or Setting up JOGL on Ubuntu

Here are the detailed steps to set up or install JOGL on your ubuntu. First of all you have to download the jogl library(according to your machine) from here . I am using Ubuntu 8.04 on intel board so i downloaded jogl-1.1.1-linux-i586.zip. So extract the zip file. Now open the folder that you have just now [...]
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Setting up java classpath on ubuntu

When u install sun’s jdk manually on ubuntu, java classpath doesn’t get set automatically unlike in windows. So when you enter command javac in terminal window, it says “javacĀ  command not found”. So here is the very simple way to set up the classpath for java on ubuntu. STEP 1 : Open the terminal window. STEP 2: [...]
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