That game was totally awesome. I can imagine how it will look in V1.0 

I also noticed how smooth your Loader worked. Is there any hints that you can give, of how to make a loader like that. I've fiddled with a loader but it's nothing like the one you developed.

Actually, that was all the exception I got. And the funny thing is that I got the exception, or fault in a dialog that looked like swing. Sort of like a popup saing that there was something wrong. press ok to continue. Perhaps there was an total exception with a callstack thrown to a client, but I didn't look.

Hey! That Javaws thing rocks! 

Thanks for your reply Jeff. 

So what I need is one of the API's (JOGL or LWJGL) to get my hands on OpenGL.
And then the Scenegraph thingy is not really mandatory stuff? Could I go with bare binding to OpenGL and then manage my scene-stuff as I please?
I will definitively have a look at Scenegraphing anyways... but is it really needed?

How About mixing Graphics2D rendering, with any 3D stuff? Is that possible? Or do I have to remake all 2D blitting to bilboards?

What exactly do you mean?

That's fun! I have played it on DreamCast, which by the way was an awesome console.
I missed mouse steering of some sort or a WASD on the directions you lay out. And of course sound.
Apart from that, it ROCKED! Will definitely play it again.

What!?! Code IS an art!
And if you think that coders/programmers are NO artists, have a look on whats showing on the demo-scene.

Cheers!

Thanks, that hit the spot. 

Actually, I tried that. adding a JPanel that is set to a size to the JFrame and then pack( ); that JFrame. The JFrame is then something like (0,10) in size.

I will have a look at it again... I mean, that IS the way to do it. unless there is some undocumented... do a setVisible first after a pack( ), but only in case you have a undecorated JFrame... or something obscure like that.

That does not affect the frame at all. Strange though, since a this.getContentPane( ) should return the JFrame that I am using.

Hi,

The termonology of standards and binding for doing 3D with Java is a for me.
What is the way to go? JOGL / LWJ..something / Java3D...
What is the difference between em? What is the coverage on different platforms? etc.

Trying to start Mindblox on the computer at work... resulted in a



This might have something to do with me using dualscreen on the computer at work, perhaps.

I also had some hickups with the sound. Like someking of lagging. To bad, thought the music was sweet.

Hi there,

I have been fiddling with exclusive fullscreen and now all of a sudden setSize on a JFrame also takes decorations into account. What I am trying to say is that I believe that setSize is supposed to set the size of the content of the JFrame, and not the complete window.

Lets say I do a this.setSize(320,240); on a JFrame extended object, then the physical representation of the window ( the content, menubar etc.) is 320x240. I recall setSize setting size of the content in window.

Any hints on this one?

MindYaBlox, is fun to play! 
It is casual and has a soft graphical style to it! Somewhat addictive.
I will definitely bookmark it and play it again.

Would be nice if you could use the mouse aswell as the keyboard, though.

Cheers!

Cool game!
Liked the monochrome-ish style of the game. It gave the game a minimalistic, yet cool look.
It's bookmarked and the rest of your production is up for a serious testing session later on.

Cheers!!

It's just like beer!
The first beer you ever drinked, tasted somewhat funny and you couldnt figure out what the fuzz was all about. But the more beer you drink, the more you seem to like the godsend brew.

And I would like to propose a toast for Eclipse, Cheers!

Can you really compare Java to Flash?!
That's like comparing apples to pears isn't it. Java is a OOP language, while flash is something of a programmable 2D-animation system. Perhaps you could develop a huge system upon that system to simulate something of a OOP language that we are used of, and even render 3d in some obscure way, rasterizing with Macromedias neat 2D vectorbased system... Really, has that been done? I have tried Swift 3D. A tool that rerendered a 3D image to a 2Drasterisation like flash uses.

The tool was, huge. The result took quite some time to recompute. And the result was ... not more than, plain nice.
Are you Really, really sure that there is a 3D engine that does rasterisation like the one on: http://www.idx3d.ch/idx3d/idx3d.html

You can perhaps compare Java to Flash, as of presenting similar content. Interactive Web stuff. But not as OOP platform. There is simply only one contender in that ring, JAVA.

I might be totally wrong. you might say...Flash does have an object oriented mechanism... still make an eventdriven, threaded, subscribing, polymorphed something, with something on top with flash then.

Perhaps this should be a poll?

Well, anyways. I was wondering if any of you that happen to draw some class diagrams, would like to recommend a neat lightweight tool for doing that.  By lightweight I mean, simple without any reverse engineering stuff and enterpricing, team multi CVS system kind of tool. Something like Dezing, the ER tool by datanamic. http://www.datanamic.com/dezign/. which by the way has a cool colorful (creative) look to it. Something that would sparc up a gamedev-UML, perhaps.

Right now, I prefer doing what ever scarse UML'in on paper cause the scale of a small project simply is to little to use let's say 'Rational Rose'.

So what are you guys saing... that making games for Applets is a NO-NO!? I have been fiddling with a Game-Core engine in 2D that renders to a JPanel and that is easily wrapped in an applet or an JFrame making it an Application.

Is that not the way to go, if I want to make small java-games? I have not tested the applets under different Os/broswers but it seems to push the load I want it to.
Running on atleast 50fps in a 320*240 screen. with a graphic-load that one could assume from a small game.

What are you guys saying? That I am doing the whole thing wrong?!

I have used Codewarrior and Visual Studio for C/C++ projects quite a lot and seemed to like them,
Yes! I even liked CodeWarrior.
The funny thing is that I have now been using Eclipse for some time doing Java programming.

I know that it must seem like comparing apples to pears, but hey. I cannot stand Visual Studio now.
Perhaps It's Java that got to me... Anyways,. Eclipse is awesome!
And the amount of plugins for it makes it.... AWESOME and some!

So lets say I use Graphics2D or similar to blit and stay away from floats and doubles. have no GUI like swing or awt... It would be more or less an easy port?

Hi there,

I was wondering what difference there is in writing for J2ME compared to J2SE?
I understand that there is quite a lot to fiddle with to make a game work on the different phones and such. But would it be possible to write a gameEngineCore kind och mechanism (2d) and develop for that playform, running on a J2SE in JPanel/JFrame/JAplet and then just (more or less) switch to J2ME? 

If you hapen to have some references to some documents that perhaps cover this issue please post it.