add rotation to the controls. I like to not only move my camera but rotate it.

a little late, but ive started using rokon. The guy that is developing it seems to have added many functions that a game needs. It i think can do OpenGL stuff, not sure cant remember off the top of my head.

couldnt we make a mono wrapper to load jvm stuff

http://www.2beegames.com/

you submit games to try and win prizes by your ratings. I do not know if they accept java but they dont say they dont. Anyways thought i should tell everyone, might be interesting for someone.

why not just hide it, and up top draw a "fake" title bar that looks like the real one but with what you want. Could be cool.

sweet, good luck on finding the right distrobution, check out hydrogen for linux as well, its a fairly cool drum machine ,  something you may want to know is that open source is good, but doesnt always mean there wont be some swear words from you. The more you dig into linux the more you will find out how much you can alter and change and break, which is why linux is so awesome. its a time consumer.

i dont think any one has mentioned which distro yet,

try the different flavors of ubuntu, such as kubuntu = kde desktop, ubuntu = gnome desktop, xubuntu = xfce = lighter desktop.
Debain based distros has a nice package handling system, its easy to update and upgrade stuff. I say use ubuntu because they are doing a great job at the moment.

If you prefer another distro and are new to linux, check out mandriva i think its called. Pclinuxos, and opensuse or even linuxmint. There are others for noobs as well those are just some common ones.

If you arn't a noob and want something really custom, try archlinux. You install it, really really basic install. Then you start building, pick your desktop environment, then start getting the packages you want such as Perl or Java using the package manager.

There are a ton of tutorials on most distros on how to do things which is great.

My Suggestion is try a debian based distribution at least ubuntu. red had or slackware based is gonna be a little harder to start out on. To know if its debian, slackware, or redhat just scan the distros main page or faqs they usually say. And then try the live cd before installing the os, you want to make sure everything is recognized and works out of the box, if it doesnt google around seeing why your hardware doesnt work on that distro, there might be a easy fix. If not toss that cd away and try another distro.

good luck.

also check out compiz, google it. It makes your linux box super awesome and when showing other people, they will be impressed and fall in love with your box.

ill admit that ive been thinking of switching to mono and this might help me go that way. Thats cool news, to bad the jvm isnt  built on the ps3. That wouldve been cool. Just seems like C# is becoming the way to go.

I havnt been to active on here and in programming lately, but i just got the motivation again, finally. Here is a game that sorta acts like a dungeon master for a table top game.
Its now playable but still buggy.
It comes with the Jar, a guide/rule book *pdf*, and a character sheet that you can print out.

Here is a screenshot:


and here is the page to get it.
http://www.scottscreations.com/showcase/gamemaster/

*Item drops and spells are still pretty incomplete right now, so if you decide to try it play using a warrior type, and you may have to create your own weapons for now.

You can download maps by googling dnd maps of the week or something like that

http://gmane.org/ and ask them for javagaming.users and a javagaming.developers and then we would have mailing lists/usergroup.

i hope not, but i hope this becomes something great for java.

they may talk about it more during javaone. This is a pretty stupid move.

that was very fun. Very well polished game. I only played for 10 min tho, i plan to play some more when i get time.

take a click over to vpslink.com they are are vps host, thats where my server is, give you a good selection of which linux os you want and stuff.

mine is Scottscreations

If i was a city planner designing a city, i would just run one of these and my job would be done just label some green yellows and blues and good to go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d2-PtK4F6Y

check it out, its pretty cool.

would be cool for closed source , thats pretty neat of having netbeans integrate it.

+1 on the java game tome, its already doing what you want.

whats keeping java alive on the mobile is the google phone and the blackberries and most phones that arnt the iphone.

flash, i hate flash. Its the trash of the internet. Sucks my bandwidth with annoying ads flash things.

Programming is hard, i suck and its been about 1.5 years *weekends and 2 classes*. Have I learned anything, heck yes. Im consistently picking up new things and how to do different things. Within the last month, i've learned how to do applets with double buffer and and pass and send data to and from php scripts, *cough* thanks javagaming members. But reality is, will I ever be a game developer? You know I wish i could be I think it would be so fun because i love to create, thats why i have so many work in progress games, but i dont have the brains. I suck at math and physics, and the way things are with being 3D i wouldnt survive. I look at gamedev.net daily shots and some of the stuff people make is simply amazing, its an art.  Im simply using my java skillz to have as a resume builder and show my boss that i can do a little more then just secure and make sure servers run.

bottom line is really.
do you enjoy programming?
if you do then keep with it and you will get better.
if not?
what is it lacking that your craving?
find something that you enjoy, get a tablet and learn to paint in photoshop, some of the art is simply breath taking. Check this guys stuff out it is by far the coolest thing ive seen done in photoshop.  http://radojavor.deviantart.com/gallery/ click on the pictures to make em bigger.

web design is cool. So many languages to choose from. I suggest perl because its really really rich and dynamic but its hard. Then another one might be ruby on rails or try out asp.
Or even if you want to keep your java skillz, get into jsp or jsf.
or you could do php which everyone seems to do.

Still want to make a game, then make a browser game. that manipulates a database. and uses a cron job to add turns etc...

http://ebiz.u-aizu.ac.jp/~paikic/lecture/2005-1/handout/Chap13.pdf

sorta covers a little of everything on applets.

if they could shrink it down and make it so only you can see it, say with special glasses. that also contains bluetooth and a ear piece, that could be very cool.

o yeah, its nice to know because of sending stuff to say a php script that then posts to a database. so yes highscore writing, player data saving etc... jit allows a server-side php/perl/script to receive data from the applet.

this sorta reminds me of that old "dos" or win95 not really sure, game called commander keen haha.

i suck i can barely control the ship haha.

- no JavaSplash ? the animation start quick ? and dont get too much stuck ?  Loaded faster and had the loading circle.
- the most important => does the applet start showing a tank ? nope, a car.
- if you found it more smooth than other standard applet ? it was smoother.
- do you like sugar ? yes
- what's you favorite movie ? im into the transformers right now.
- what's your pets name ? dont have one.
 

oh, it took awhile to load. took 26 seconds.

WINXP SP3 Firefox 3.0.8 / 1.6.0_13 Java

Little choppy when zooming in, i have a gig of ram though and firefox and some others take a piece of that....

I dont think this is a slow down on desktop / whatever java. I think oracle just gained a lot. Cell phones use java a lot. This opens oracle to new things and maybe they expand there interests from server side to desktop and cell phones. I dunno its really a wait and see. I think they will get rid of mysql tho.