hi everybody . I am cs student  that has  a project coming up and i need some advice on
 how to develope a multiplayer network associated 2d top-down view space shooting game.
  I have some ideas but not done something smilar before. Also İ have to do it with Java and
  open gl and not experienced on it as you people are.

 in the game you have a ship and you have a large map that has multiple bases that you can get missions.
 Missions are like destroying asteroids, protecting cargo ships and usual enemy stuff. I have a problem
  with the map ; I dont know what to do about it. Constraints are; bases should have static locations and
  cargo ships should have travel points means they are depended on the map. There is a game that has very
  similar properties to the one i suppose to have. I want a map exactly like this example below. Please tell me
  what to do... i am desperate
 
  http://www.addictinggames.com/starfighter.html



 

Hmmm. It will definately be 2d but i think i will prefer Open GL because
i am more familiar with it from my computer graphics course. And thanks
for the map data structure explanation  i think i get it now. is there anything
that i miss other than the x,y cordinates and let's say the type of the object that i
want to keep in the data structure?