Java real time strategy game development

Question

I\'m coming to the end of my first year of CS and I thought a great way to consolidate all the things I\'ve learnt this year would be a personal game project.

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Answer 1

It is very unrealistic to think you could implement a 2D RTS engine anywhere even close to the complexity in those kind of games. You could maybe get something very rough if you were experienced, but with only one year I think it's doubtful.

I can't help but feel like it would be much better for you if you used an existing engine or framework and built off of it. Like you said, working with other code would probably be a good learning experience as well. It would allow you to experiment without getting bogged down in having to do everything.