Hi,

There is currently a JOGL applet player signed by Sun which allows using JOGL in
applets without a security prompt.  Is there any plan to do a joint JOAL/JOGL version
of this -- a JOGL only applet seems a bit of a wasted opportunity.

JC

Hi,

I have exactly the same issue with Ubuntu Breezy on a Dell Latitute 200C ( Intel 830 graphics IIRC ).
LWJGL is hardware rendered.  I've tried jsr231 builds up to 22-Dec-05 with the same problem.

jc

Hi,

Just out of curiosity, I've been trying out the 'pack200' util in java5 (beta2-b51) on various jar files and with xith3d I get these numbers:

Plain jar - 702,073 bytes
Packed jar - 393,776 bytes
Packed and gzipped - 175,495 bytes

which is almost exactly 4x compression  
Not quite the '8 fold' compression they claim but still not to be sniffed at.

JC

Hi,

I'm involved in starting up a Bachelors Degree in Game Design for Middlesex University, London which will begin this September.

Firstly, this is *not* just a video/computer/electronic  game focussed course -- we 've got lectures in card games, board games, D&D style role playing ... everything from Tiddlywinks to Tetris.

But, it's my job to provide support for students who want to make computer games.

So I plan to make a comprehensive CD of all the tools a student would need to make a solid prototype for an original game.  And coz I'd like to push the OSS/Java agenda I thought I'd ask you lot for recommendations for not just tools but also example games that I can freely copy and pass around to the students.

Obviously x-platform tools are better and good documentation is a must.
So far I can think of (and other threads have suggested) the obvious things:

IDEs -- Eclipse / NetBeans / jEdit
Graphics -- The Gimp
Sound -- Audacity
Libs -- jogl, joal, jinput, LWJGL, SPGL, Xith3D, SDL, Java Monkey Engine
Games -- Gundan, TuxRacer, ?
Game Programming (fre)e-Books -- ?
Docs

What do you think a student starting Java Game Development from scratch should have?

THX
JC