After reading Java for Dummies and understanding the fundamentals of programming, I've wanted to move onto to game making. After a bit of looking around for tutorials, I have found that there are 20,000 ways to program the animation loop, some work, some don't, some suck, others don't, and I can't quite decide what's going to be best for me. I've read some tutorials, but with everyone disagreeing on the subject, it's hard to form a basis. So how do people on this forum program the basic animation loop for their games?