Help to program games!!!

I am trying to make a Tetris Game, but I need some help to start.

Maybe someone can tell the guidelines to start or at least how can I make appear and move a figure (for example a square)in a panel once that the panel is load.

I would also like to know if there is any documentation or API to program games.

Thank you for your help

[356 byte] By [bilma_5a] at [2007-9-28 6:54:17]
# 1
About 4 years ago, I made a little tetris game. It's AWT, yet it may help you to look at the source (which is not much): http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~jpwinne/ and see the "My Games" section.jpwinne
jpw35a at 2007-7-9 18:05:13 > top of Java-index,Other Topics,Java Game Development...
# 2
Do a search on Tetris here on the sun site. There is no less then four versions of Tetris with full source code available on this forum alone.
aricka at 2007-7-9 18:05:13 > top of Java-index,Other Topics,Java Game Development...