Hey all!I was wondering how I could go about preloading all of the images and sounds I use in my game (applet-form) before the user starts playing. It would be especially helpful to have a bar going across that would show the user their status.It would be even greater to allow the JAR files (I ...

Hi all,I am not a Java expert, but I notice that at http://www.miniclip.com and similar sites, most of the popular games are written in Flash. Why is this? Is it because of Flash's IDE? Or is there some other reason?If it is an IDE issue: Is there any Java IDE that makes basic Java game ...

Hi, I'm just about finished a hangman game in Java (eclipse). I getting a logical error that I can't find after 30 minutes of searching and testing. I would be very thankful if some could pinpoint the problem.When the user hits the spacebar it lets them enter the entire answer (hidden word), ...

Hello, I am a student and I am taking programming, I was wondering how I would go about making a simple java version of the game show "Deal or No Deal". I am doing this for a project and I am using Netbeans, it doesnt have to be complex and I was just wondering where to start. Any help would be ...

this is my attempt to learn how to create simple chessboard in java.. ill post my code as i progress, any suggestions is greate.i use netbeans :) and jdk1.6rc. peace/* * ChessBoard.java * * Created on November 26, 2006, 10:06 PM * * To change this template, choose Tools | Template Manager * and ...

Hey all, i've been making a spaceshooter in java, but now i'm having design problems. my code is apparantly inefficient and lags like crazy on certain comps, but works fine on good comps. i've experimented with threading, but dont know an efficient way to thread. So far i have a thread to ...

I know making a game is very hard that is why I was wondering where to start on making graphics? Like land, houses, trees, ect. Also what languages should I start to study for gaming programing? But the main thing I would like to know is where to start on making graphics. I would really ...

Hey I have a problem with hardware accelerated Java2D, not sure that this is the correct sub-forum so if not please move my message post. I have this application that creates a JFrame with a Sweing GUi and then when pressing a button I open another JFrame that has a double buffered canvas ...

hi uhm im new here and well i started with a lil program but when i compile it gives me this erros :Building "Sub3"C:\WTK20\apps\Sub3\src\M1945.java:6: package java.applet does not existimport java.applet.*;^1 errorcom.sun.kvem.ktools.ExecutionExceptionBuild failedim using Java jdk 1.5.0_09 and ...

Ok, my ambition is to have my own 3d MMORPG!But I need some help, first off I have done some programing in Realmcrafter ( http://www.realmcrafter.com/) and I have learned some HTML too. But my life is kind of rubbish at moment lol so I want something to do and that is to learn JAVA!Now I would ...

HeyI've only been learning Java a couple of weeks and a friend suggested a good way to learn would be to write simple board games. It's going fine and just for practice I now want to write a really basic game engine for the sort of stuff I've been doing.I've been looking online to try and ...

Usually I'm good at finding information to solve problems by searching the forums. but honestly I've never seen this problem solved or ever heard any mention of it. . . . here goes.I'm writing a space shooter that uses images as the hero and enemy ships.My problem is this.I've written the ...

Hello,my name is vikas.k ,I had a test to develop puyo game,in order to do so i need to refer the one developed before so that i can get a idea to start .so, please send me the source of puyo game as quickly as possible, bye..

Hello Frends,I am planning to develop a game on mobile using J2ME.i know how to develop applications on Mobile,but i didn't develop any game on Mobile till stage.so i need the basic information regarding the game developement like what r the packages do we need to import and what packages are ...

hey, im new at this java script lark and am trying to add a timer to a memory game in order to present a list of high scores complete with their time. Below is my code, any help would be appreciated. Thanks x<html><BODY bgcolor="#FFFFFF"></BODY><TITLE>Might Boosh Card ...

Hi, I'm trying to create a maze that characters can run around in, I think that I've got the basics done but I need more specific help. My code:public class maze {/** Creates a new instance of maze */public void maze(String[] args) {int[][]maze = new ...

Hey can anyone please help me out? I'm trying to create a side scroller game but having some difficulties with the ribbons and making it appear as though the my character is moving. I created this code below but I cannot test if the ribbons work because when I click compile it says there ...

Hey,I'm new to java development and I'm trying to write a game. I've made a map for the player to move around written in excel/notepad.Pretty simple, everything's numbered 1-25, e.g.111113311111would be building 3surrounded by a path.Could anyone help me figure out how to get this into a ...

Im just getting started on using JOGL and im really excited.Out of pure academic curiousity, how much of a speed increasedo you get working with JOGL over pure java software rendering? Ive always just written my own 3d libraries in java for simple wireframeand polygonal (w/ no shading) graphics ...

Hi,I have made a little game which use "Active rendering".I have a JFrame with a JMenuBar Inside the JFrame I have myJPanel (getContentPane().add(myJPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER); ) which contains the running cicle below:while(running) {gameUpdate();gameRender();paintScreen();afterTime = ...

Hi. I am currently writing a smallish java game - a kind of populous clone - where an isometric world will be populated with various entities moving around independantly.In order to do this I have a main class which uses an array of a class 'Entity' which is around 4-500 in size. I also hold ...

Hi there,Im a fairly new programmer, literally picked up Java 12weeks ago on my course, and now Ive been told to make a game resembling pacman- where the character eats the enemies. The game basically involves a pacman-like character (a filled arc) and puts him in a space invaders like ...

Haj can you tell me haw i can make executable ane code with one icone in my desctop. I have coded one game in Jbuilder

I need a 3D SDK with audio support. Obviosly it would be Java3D. But i've heard it uses much memory, and it's complicated.What do you think about j Monkey Engine ?Or is Java3D the right choice for game programming ?

Hey, Ive not been programming long but Ive been given the task of creating a game, which I have done, but now I want to extend it further.I have situations in the game where you can win and lose, and currently ive just got the game resetting itself when it happens (ie, if you lose the game, the ...

Hey guys I'm pretty new to java. I need to make a game based on a grid 12 x 12. Uncovering a tile on the grid will either reveal a piece of treasure or nothing. Each piece of treasure is worth a certain amount of points and can take up several spaces on the grid.Now like I said I'm not that ...

Im fairly new to programming and am experimenting with a JOptionPane in my game, and Im trying to work how to have spacing between the text, so I could theoretically have the games introduction in the message window- such as;message part1message part2the current code im using ...

Hi there,Im implementing my game an assignment and Ive come across a problem that I cant seem to solve. Ive created an option pane that, in a win or lose situation, allows the user to restart or quit the game- the restarting is simple enough in that if the value of the option pane = 0 then it ...

HiI want to develop a Java program to solve Sudoku puzzlesMy program must be able to:昍ead in a puzzle (from the predefined file format ?see below)旸isplay the unsolved puzzle昐olve the puzzle旸isplay the solved puzzleFile FormatThe file consists of a number of integers.The first integer signifies ...

I`ve managed to open a JFrame in fullscreen mode but I have problems with centering buttons. I want to have a menu that consists of a number of buttons and I want them to be centered (both vertically and horizontally). I have the buttons in a JPanel but how can I center it now?EDIT: public ...

Hi there,Ive completed my pacman/space invaders hybrid game- which has a main game and two playable videos. Its all fine, but when I go to run it it says;Exception in thread "Image Fetcher 1" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap spaceException in thread "Image Fetcher 2" ...

Please Help,I am new to JOGL VBOs and am having some difficulty coloring shared vertices - I really need to color by polygon face. For example I have a file of triangles that are connected and as such will have some shared vertices. Example file:TRIANGLES:Tri1 vert1 vert2 vert3 color_redTri2 ...

I made a fullscreen game and I'm trying to get it to respond to the mouse or keyboard input. The problem is it only responds a few second after I press the button. Does anyone know how I could speed up the response? All my code is posted below.EDIT: I did some experimenting and it looks like ...

hey,i have a list of lines each of which have a to and from 2d point.The list is just a soup of lines and arent in any particular order.Also some lines in the polygon may be clockwise and some may be anti-clockwise.When put together they form one large polygon which encompasses several other ...

I made a game in Java using NetBeans 5.0. It works fine on my computer, and a few other people's, but I recently found out from a Linux user that it has two problems on that OS:The file extension capitalization, which doesn't normally matter, was causing it not to find certain files (using ...

Hi. At the moment I am writing my first game in Java and I have trouble getting my head round scope for variables in Java.In my game I have the main JFrame class which holds an array of characters which is passed to a JPanel class for drawing. I pass this array into the JPanel in the JPanels ...

I need to know tht how can i get Images from a Directory using JFIle Chooser & then displaying all the images in small size in the frame below plz help me out !THankx

i have a project due in two days and i must create a deal or no deal game in java the following is the code i have currently created i am not very advanced so this is where i am at so far:// The "DealorNoDeal" class.import java.awt.*;import hsa.Console;import java.util.Random;public class ...

I need to make a turret for a game. The turret will fire bullets and hit objects moving towards it. The turret's chamber can move within a 120 degree field. I've never done any animation and any help would be much appreciated. Key Bindings are left, right, up and down, and space to shoot. ...

I don't know if everyone has heard of this game.. I think it was really popular a couple years or so ago... but anyway, I would like to try to make a "Snood" clone in java.I'm not looking for code, but I did want to ask if anyone had any suggestions concerning what I would like to ...

Did someone report abuse?I thought I had made some good replies to the job thread. I don't understand why that one was chopped yet puyo puyo continues to flower like a sunflower in manure. I mean is this some administrator's idea of a joke?

Hey everyone. My simple game engine currently uses Swing for the frames and components, but uses an AWT Canvas for the actual game display. I'm trying to figure out how to change entirely to Swing components.Here's basically how I've laid out my game loop thread using Canvas:1. Do ...

Hello,I wrote a little application with jogl and now want to make it red-green-Stereo.Does someone know a good tutorial, how to do that?Or maybe can explain the main points to be considered?I did a red-gren-stereo app ones, but it's quite a long time ago, and I can't find any suitable ...

Hi guys. I need help with changing the sort type of this code.I write the output in an jTextArea Field with Descending order. it looks likeViktor = 40Thomas=65Emil=30Alfred=120so you see that the names are sorted. i want the points (score) to be sorted. The data is saved into an properties file ...

So. I have a game where little sprites randomly move down the screen, and at the bottom is a user-controlled tank. The tank fires with the up key, and moves left and right. Each shot fired that hits a sprites gives the user one point, every sprite that passes the tank subtracts 5 points. The ...

I am having trouble with a game i am writing - an isometric populous style game. I think my problem lies with the way I am implementing the graphics. Please see my main class and graphics class below:import java.awt.*;import java.util.*;import javax.swing.*;import java.awt.event.*;import ...

Hello, I have a Jogl question...it appears that javagaming forums are down, so I thought that I'd try my luck here.I came across this text in the following wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Direct3D_and_OpenGL"Microsoft's OpenGL driver bundled with Windows versions ...

I'm hoping to make a sniper-esque game. The background is far away and when the mouse (scope) is over a certain area, then that area is enlarged. A subimage method call would work well for that... But heres the catch, a sniper scope is ROUND not square. How can I capture the subimage and then ...

hi,I am going to start coding a Action-game using J2ME, it's about the aircraft battle on space, so I need the game graphics as many sorts as possible, like: player's craft in 16-direction, enemy with 16-direction, backgroud picture, different tiles in different levels.But I am a newbie for ...

HI all!!I am facing the same problem of Puyo and i want solution of the same. I am new this gaming aera and cant help myself.P help me.my email is adisuns@gmail.comPl help.Message was edited by: adi_007Message was edited by: ...