Hello. I am in dire need of help and am looking for someone to assitant me to produce a program. Also, I am willing to pay someone to just produce the program for me (in a 1-2 day time period). The payment can be discussed over email: willingtopay123@yahoo.com (the email says it all ha). ...

I'm working on a marathon runner game ( http://www.locopuyo.com/MarathonRunnerBeta1.zip ) just for the fun of it. What I am wondering is what the best way to make a high scores list would be. I have mySQL on my server, I don't know if that is the best way to do it though. I don't know at all ...

I'm writing a space shooter that for now can be thought of as an Asteroids clone. I would like to run it fullscreen and the highest resolution possible but I'm having some major problems.My problem is I'm getting crappy framerates when in fullscreen. When I do anything (in either windowed or ...

hey, i'm making a java RPG, and i'm really noob at this stuff, and i'm in CS2 this year, and was wondering, how wud u make a scrolling RPG? like so far i made a way to make the char move, but then i asked my dad and stuff, and he said that scrolling wud b better........oh well....like when i ...

As of right now, I have two threads in my side scrolling marioish game. One is the actual game (Using java.util.Timer and Timer Task). The other is a javax.Timer for the graphics. Its the best solution I have found so far, but there has to be a better way, since the program flickers a few times ...

I am trying to develop an RPG engine not unlike Chrono Trigger (in that the orientation of sprites is by pixel, not by tile) and I want each tile to have its own passability; that is, a tile can have walls on the north, south east, and west sides. Anybody done this before?

Hi, I am developing a java jump 'n run game, wich can be seen at http://powered.at/superossI am now at a point, where I want to apply animations. I want my firstanimation to be a box which is bursting and falling appart. So what Iwant to do is cutting a box (which is a gif) int four pieces and ...

Hi,I'm currently working on a GUI that I'd like to be in full screen, but I can't manage to remove the uppest bar of the window, with the title, and the resize and close buttons.I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum, but there are so many I didn't know which one to choose.Thank you ...

I have created a client/server Java Multiplayer Memory Game. One game can have 4 clients. Each player has its own thread which sends/receives game info via a socket. My problem is I would like to add a lobby area that hosts an unlimited number of rooms which contain my memory game. How would I ...

Hi,Variations on this question have been posted, but I couldn't find anything answering my question, so here goes:I'm writing a simple turn-based game, and I want to represent the playing board on a 2D Grid, each position having a certain type of tile. Representing the tile types with numbers ...

Hello,I am implementing the graphics for a simple Monopoly game. I am currently creating a subclass of Canvas for drawing the board but when I repaint the canvas multiple times, you can clearly see the canvas repaint (a white area quickly flashs up and disappears).What would be the best way to ...

i want to make a java map maker, so i can make maps easier, and was wondering the best way. i wud prefer if i cud make it executable, but i don't know how. i also want to know the difference between a JFrame, a Frame, and an Applet. i have a general idea, but i want to b efficient

Hello,Just posting to ask your thoughts on how you would implement the following (what sort of infrastructure would you create?):I'm trying to create some 'living' objects that can perform various actions, like move, fight, eat, rest etc. Lets say the area in which that can move within was a ...

hiIs there a built-in way to get the magnitude of a number in Java? I have to check that |a| + |b|<= |c| (all ints), but i haven't found a way of doing this yet. Any help, please?ThanksOpethian

I have done all that aol told me to do concerning this problem,and still no luck.

is here: http://www.planetalia.com/cursos/index.jspI just found it on Algorithm forum :). Hope you enjoy it.Kind regardsPiotr

For my final year project I need to create a java game and I have no idea where to start could some one please suggest a good idea for a relatively easy game I could create (not too easy). I was thinking of a puzzle type game which then could be used on the desktop or on a mobile phone. PLEASE ...

I've been fiddling with fractals and playing with pathfinding...came up with this( http://www.gps-coords.co.za). Any ideas?

I want to create some code, so that when I click on the applet, a missile is launched and follows a line which the missile will trravel to where I clicked on the screen and then will continue on that line until it goes offscreen. I tried to do this by using the following code.// calc route ...

Hi I'm pretty new with Java so this might sound silly, but I don't know how to make an ArrayList. I have to make a LottoMachine. I'm supposed to make a bowl where 45 balls are in. According to my teacher I have to use an ArrayList to store those 45 balls. But how do I store these balls in ...

What would be the best way for object in a game to be able to call the game engines general methods (such as delete an object, add a new object, find the closest object of type n)? Should I pass a reference for the engine to the object via the constructor or by some other method.

We have a java swing game that relies on connection with the server and that is established through object stream. Our problem is that in between game play 揝tream Corrupted Exception?occurred and connection breaks. Is there a way we can avoid this, so that connection will carry on till the game ...

Yeah, so I've literally spent the past two days trying to figure out how to get the keys to make stuff move in my game. I've already gotten the computer players to move around, implemented a collision detection system of sorts, and written the methods that will facilitate movement in the main ...

In 01/2004 i developed small Java-Game as Applett. Java Version 1.3With Curser -Keys you can control a figure which running .i made a playfield like chess. when the figure go to the next field the canvas of the old field new drawing.The problem from Java-Version 1.5 is: that if the figure ...

Hi, I am needing a game already implemented in java, like a rol playing game like life, where the player has to eat, work and study. I hope you can help me, I know there is a open source project called: mr jones, but is in javascript and no even finished. Thanks for everything, I Would ...

I've run into a bit of a problem regarding one of the games I've programmed. I think it has to do with the Timer's that I've used in the program. Or maybe it's the ArrayLists...Basically there is a main timer that runs the main program and I've set it to run at 15. Then there are numerous ...

I want to design a GUI for a game I am writing. The GUI will primarily be displaying text; I have experience with basic Swing so far. Having carried out a few searches on this forum I have been unable to find anything similar to my enquiry, which is:My question is regarding advice on how to go ...

Hello everyone, I thank you in advance for whatever help you are able to give on this problem I have. I will detail the scope of the question I have: our focus is to make a 2D, top-down, space shooter which will at some point implement multiplayer network support, along with multiple ships, ...

while I was reviewing the TicTacToe game written by sun I've noticed this linestatic boolean won[ ] = new boolean[1 << 9];I couldn't figure out what does it mean although I searched for the java symbols this one wasn't therein general what does it mean and when we can use itthank ...

well i am a starting out java learner and i was wondering if and body can help me learn or help me on a project. If yah then e-mail me or msn rah33m_89@hotmail.com thank you.

I want to know how much advantage about game development in java!The game is PC game not j2me.

Hi there. im trying to develop a reaction testing game... And ive come across a few difficultuies.....Ive been working with code from the Java Boutique Game Tutorial (full code avalible here http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/Java_Game_Programming/DasErsteSpielEng.html )and basically im ...

hey yall, well i'm making a java RPG, and i'm now trying to do the battle part of it. i want to know how to make like a time thing, u know like in FF games b4 u can attack there is a time bar? well, i don't know how to implement that. i used a JProgressBar 4 the health and stuff, and i need ...

I have an indent image at cretin angle (to look it like 3D), and I put it in the back of an Label, with grid format there are several labels on it which indicates as tiles further they used for path finding.My problem is the image is in parallelogram shape but the tiles are rectangles so it ...

Hi guys,I'm trying to build such a program basically jsut to learn how to program games, I need a funtional version to play around with and decompose. If anyone has something like that please post a link or the source code below. I am especially looking for a program that would extend in a ...

Im trying to make a basic online game. I plan to have movement-(i need fast response) and multiple users. Ive made a few games but none online. can you point me in the right direction?

heres my situation. i am programing a small game in java. now i use .png files for my sprites. to hide the frame which surrounds the sprites i made their background black along with the bits that i don't want to see in my sprites, but when my two sprites(a and b) colide, i see the black border ...

Does anyone have a sample code for mewhere a little dot or something can walk over the screen?Really would appreciate the help,Xanq

Hi there......Ive created a game that uses double buffering...basically the user hits the ball that is moving around the screen... after 5 goes the program needs to display a graph....I have got the two components working seperatly... but when i combine that classes into one (the graph + the ...

hallo there....I made an bal that moves around the screen.. it has his own class...every time i click on a button another one comes in.as more as they come as more the balls start to flicker on the screen..i don't know how to put an moving object into a buffer...so if somebody knows how to put ...

Hello,i have bought the book of Thomas Petchel: Java 2 game programming. I studied it and now i think i have good knowledge about 2D games, pictures manipulation... I know the tools to make games but i don know what kind of game to implement?Any games ideas which could involded Java 2D, ...

Hey guyz.....though i am a new programmer but i am aiming for the skies. I have been trying out many codes on java and i have come out with creating a simple calculator . .......need the source code,do mail me at honourbholu@gmail.com or onabolubanto@yahoo.co.uk.Bolu

I'm currently working on an rpg and I have the whole tile system layed out and there are 3 layers. It was fine until i added the 3 layers now it lags. Currently every tile on my map is an object is this the wrong way of going about this ? I'm thinking this is what is lagging my program. ...

Hi All,I am trying to run a simple 3d program. However I get a bug which is connected with the following method:glu.gluOrtho2D (0.0, 500.0, 0.0, 300.0);the error is:Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: dispatch_gluOrtho2Dat ...

Hello everyone,For school i am making a game of tic-tac-toe. I got it to show a winner and stuff, but i don't know how to let it restart after a player has won the game. I am really new with Java so can you please show a solution in code in stead of telling me what to do, or at least give the ...

I've been reading different things and I think what they're saying is that the alpha part of a picture wastes resources ? Is this true and if so how can you fix it ? and if you were to remove the alpha of a picture it would only be for pictures which filled the entire are you wanted them to ...

Hey.When I do multiple readLines in a row, the second few doesnt seem to work. Here is my code:name = d_br.readLine();GameClientApplet.user.setName(name);pass = d_br.readLine();GameClientApplet.user.setPass(pass);hp = d_br.read();GameClientApplet.user.setHP(hp);armor = ...

hi,i want to draw the perpendicular bisector of two points. i obtained the midpoint and used the drawline method to draw the bisector. g2.drawLine(x,y,(x+Math.cos(90/180.0*Math.PI)*length),(y-Math.sin(90/180.0*Math.PI)*length));is there any way to do this without specifying the length of the ...

Hi,I want know wether i can create a greeting card, such that I can add as plain text in mail id to send in java.If it is possible can u guide me how.By using what can we do.If not can any one tell in which language it is possible.

Hey people,I've made this game when I was 15, and only today I learnt how to put it up on the net and make it available for everyone... so here it is!(I know it's not that hard to beat the computer, but we only had two weeks for that ...