Android Studio is built on JetBrains IDEA which is a pretty good alternative to Eclipse these days.

When using Slick Applets, the class that extends the BasicGame class can't have parameter(s) in the constructor otherwise Slick is unable to make a new instance of it.

Change 'public Game(String title)' to 'public Game()' and the above error should no longer happen.

Keep the updates coming, video's, cool effects, etc, this gives us something to tweet/post about the game and so keeps it in the public eye. Your last update was probably seen by a few thousand ppl on twitter.

Shouldn't be a problem on todays CPU's, however seems a bit of a waste for the GPU to just sit there when you can offload work to it and free up the CPU for other tasks.

Cool, really nice work on getting to a point where you can showcase it on Steam Greenlight. Looks really nice.

A list of resources to Learn LWJGL can be found here.

Nice idea, however the style of projector (excluding the room sensor) used in that video usually costs 2 - 4 times the amount current gen console sell for. So unless Microsoft have found a really cheap way to manufacture them (don't forget the cost of the actual console), it just looks like an expensive gimmick peripheral.

Work on LWJGL 2.x is now mainly going to be stability fixes and just having it working well (so unlikely to get many new radical features). The 2.9 is mostly just bug fixes, new extensions, updates to OpenAL-Soft and moving the project over to GitHub.

For new features, LWJGL 3.0 is where all the action is now, its a radical rethink/refocus of the API, will have many new features, be more lightweight, faster and fully documented. Its still very early days though and far from ready but work is underway.

Snippet from the LWJGL forums below showing some progress from the current LWJGL3 WIP:

Yup internally it going to be a big release as the the mac backend was completely rewritten but from a user point of view should be just be another release in the LWJGL 2.x series.

Anyway no need to actually wait for the final release, just grab the nightly builds and start hacking away

As for tutorials have a look at this page.

This looks nice but is it Android only atm? any plans for a desktop version?

This works and plays really nicely.

FEATURED.

You could also use JarSplice, will wrap your jar and natives into a single shellscript (.sh) for linux, exe for windows and an .app for OS X.

The game is highly polished in pretty much all the area's in the scoring system, uses a rather stable framework/library (libgdx), didn't find anything worth criticising or think that adding a score out of 10 would assist much in helping improve the game. Besides users can always add their own comments and reviews (even a score).

really nice, love the art style.

FEATURED.

Have a read of the Basic LWJGL Applet guide.

Secondly when using LWJGL you also have natives which need to be deployed, a number of different ways to do this, e.g. Deploying with the LWJGL Applet Loader.

that is a pretty beefy system so you should get more fps, but yeh one VBO per chunk of blocks is probably the way to go. VBO is only updated if there is some change to the chunk.

Also curious, what type of lighting are you using simple per pixel/vertex spotlight? SSAO? other?

Tiberian Sun used voxels for its 3d, so the engine is a bit of a hybrid between 2d and 3d.

Have a read of this tutorial.

have you set the correct glViewport parameters after the resize?

@heezel do avoid creating multiple threads for the same project/game, did notice you had some extra images in your second thread so copied those over to your original thread so you don't loose your replies.

Anyway really cool looking project, just curious, you using one of the java game engines? or is it mostly written from scratch using something like an opengl binding?

LWJGL's built in method

Nice, LibGCM seems like a pretty cool library, found a nice read here and here.

The OpenGL support on PS3 is just a layer on top of LibGCM, however rumour has it that the PS4 has native OpenGL support. It'd be interesting to know which type of OpenGL (if any) is on PS4, whether its OpenGL ES2 or standard desktop OpenGL (like OpenGL 4.2). Its unlikely that OpenGL ES 2 will cut it for next-gen as there is heavy emphasis of use of things like compute shaders, geometry shaders, etc.

Its definitely in Oracles interest to let Sony have access/licence to Java as Sony's cloud stuff (Gaikai, etc) will require a lot of servers, something I'm sure Oracle will be more than happy to provide. However Sony are already heavily invested in C# (see Playstation Mobile) so not sure what extra benefit they'd get from Java.

Its already confirmed that C# (source & mirror) and DirectX 11 will be on PS4. However not seen any concrete information yet that OpenGL or OpenGL ES will be on PS4.

Technically OpenJDK looks very possible to port onto PS4, probably need to rewrite the OS specific bits though unless the PS4 OS is Linux or Windows NT Kernel (considering the DirectX).

Another thing to keep in mind is that the Gaikai tech (was written in Java on some clients and was Java serverside) will be a big part of PS4, so for all we know they might already have some sort of JVM for it, in addition to the Blu-Ray JVM (Interestingly the Xbox Next will also have a Blu-Ray drive, so also a JVM?).

Speaking of the Xbox Next, rumour has it that it'll use a modified version of Windows 8 and also be x86 based, so OpenJDK on there also shouldn't be impossible, although you'll probably have to have a binding to DirectX for it.

Now we need some stretch goals

GIT is a good choice, if you must use Dropbox then its possible to use GIT on top of Dropbox (just Google for instructions), better yet just use a proper service like Github, BitBucket, etc instead of Dropbox.

On the Very High setting unsigned applets won't run. On High, you will be prompted before any unsigned Java app runs in the browser. If the JRE is below the security baseline, you will be given an option to update. There is already a prompt for signed/self-signed applets, so basically all applets now have a prompt (a double prompt in Chrome).

Oracle have released a fix the above exploits, announcement here.

They've also switched the default Java Security Settings Level to High, basically meaning all Java applets will now be click to start (no more drive by Java attacks).

Just painful watching the Java Applet plugin situation slowly moving from bad to obsolete over the years.

Nice job debugging that, I was also running into the issue on an old computer (ATI Radeon Xpress 200 series), can confirm Spine runs perfectly on there now.

Oh well, sounded a bit too generous on Adobe's part

The GIMP and Paint.NET are pretty decent free alternatives these days. The GIMP became a lot more usable since they added the single window mode although I'd say Paint.NET is still a little better.