Creating basic real time enviroments

Hello there,

Currently I am planning to develop a real time milliary strategy style game and was wondering where I could find some good resources/tips on creating the initial enviroment.

I am reasonably new to game development in java but have a few years experience in other areas of java so the language itself isn't a problem, just really need a starting point on which to build.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Matt

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# 1
I don't know what "initial environment" means
Malohkan at 2007-7-6 23:42:47 > top of Java-index,Other Topics,Java Game Development...
# 2

Basically the playing areas and agents (ie. the players). My brief is to initially create a playing area and agents then to build the underlying A.I. for the computer controlled players. Im just really after some techniques for building games and also and snippets of code which would be useful. Are there any websites you can recommend?

Matt_Bishop at 2007-7-6 23:42:47 > top of Java-index,Other Topics,Java Game Development...
# 3

> I am reasonably new to game development in java but

> have a few years experience in other areas of java so

> the language itself isn't a problem, just really need

> a starting point on which to build.

I suggest you get a couple of good books. I am sure there are many recommondations. And maybe a book on OpenGL if that is your poison. At least if you are serious and want to spend some time getting good at this, you should get some books. Testing snippets takes up a lot more time.

-s

shelzib at 2007-7-6 23:42:47 > top of Java-index,Other Topics,Java Game Development...
# 4
I have a couple of books on the subject, AI game programming wisdom, they provide a reasonable starting point but not really helpful with java, more focused at C++
Matt_Bishop at 2007-7-6 23:42:47 > top of Java-index,Other Topics,Java Game Development...
# 5
Why not try for instance http://www.brackeen.com/javagamebook/
shelzib at 2007-7-6 23:42:47 > top of Java-index,Other Topics,Java Game Development...
# 6
Thanks for your help there, that site is very useful, and ive ordered the book!
Matt_Bishop at 2007-7-6 23:42:47 > top of Java-index,Other Topics,Java Game Development...