Game programming in Java? [closed]

Answer 1

I've made a list of a bunch of tutorials that should be of help

Answer 2

http://www.javagaming.org/ is a good source for up-to-date information.

Another framework not mentioned yet is Xith3D

Answer 3

As mentioned by all others in this topic, there are plenty of excellent libraries/engines available for building games in Java.

Game programming in Java is definitely feasible. Keep in mind though that, as with any other language, getting real-time performance will always take some effort. I wrote a small article about my experiences with using Java for our 3D breakout game 'Caromble!'. It is mainly about the steps we had to take to get our game running smoothly.

http://www.caromble.com/2013/05/java-game-programming/

Answer 4

there is the excellent open source 3d engine called jMonkey (http://www.jmonkeyengine.com) which is being used for a few commercial projects as well as hobby developers... there is also at a lower level the lwjgl library which jmonkeyengine is built on which is a set of apis to wrap opengl as well as provide other game specific libs...

Answer 5

Despite the odd name ( pretty sure he's talking about the soft drink...), this site has loads of resources and examples games both 2D and 3D. Coke and Code

Answer 6

GTGE (www.goldenstudios.or.id) is an excellent 2D Java Game Library, with tutorials and an extensive API. It has gone open-source in its latest version, and the source can be downloaded, browsed, etc. at gtge.googlecode.com.