Java Applet Game Development Tutorials

Java Game Development Tutorials will give you a very detailed introduction into the development of online games using Java. We will talk about Java Applets because everyone has a Internet browser, so everyone is able to play these games without installing the JDK! The first 5 chapters will lead you from the basic structure of a applet to the development of a whole (although pretty small) game. The next chapters will give you solutions to problems like AI, level editors, random generation of landscapes… . At the end of every chapter you’ll find a link to download the source-code of the applet we programmed in this chapter and you can take a look at the working applet too.

1. Basic structure of an applet
2. Animation
   • Move a ball
   • Double buffering
   • Ball bouncing and change the direction
3. Sound und Gif’s
   • Using sound in applets
   • Using pictures in applets
4. Event handling in applets
   • Mouse events (deprecated)
   • Keyboard events (deprecated)
   • New event handling using EventListener
5. The first complete game
   • Outline of the program and structure of classes
   • Random movement of the ball
   • Hit a ball by clicking on it
   • Count score and loose lifes
   • Change the mouse pointer
   • Start the game after double clicing on the applet
6. Advanced topics
   • Artificial intelligence for a pong like game
   • Generation of random 2D landscapes
   • A leveleditor for arraybased games
   • Scrolling
   • A shooting spaceship
7. Platform game basics
   • Class design
   • The Player – Object
   • The structure and function of the class “Level”
8. Unfinished Chapters (only Applets and sourcecode)
   • Movement of a cannonball in games like Worms, Ballerburg, Castles… (Applet + Sourcecode), Tutorial will be available someday
   • Movement of a snake in a Nibbles like game (Applet + Sourcecode), Tutorial will be available someday

Reference: latest-tutorial.com