Become a Pro at Java Game Programming with Black Art of Java Game Programming PDF Download

I hope to show how simple a basic game is to make when you have a few hours on your hands. I go into every programming project with the desire to learn something new - this project taught me a few tricks. I hope it does the same for you.

With that being said, let's dive right in, starting with a demo of the game you will make! (without the music, of course) You can download the .jar file (and project source code) at the end of this step to play with.

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This is always the first stage of building any game. Here you make sketches and draft ideas on your game's functionality. Never start a game by programming. Your code will be written and rewritten wasting a significant amount of time. Take time to put together a "95% model," which has everything you think your game will need on the conceptual level. You will inevitably think of added functionality while programming, so have the vast majority of the concept finalized beforehand.

In the concept building phase, you should also get an idea of the GUI layout and general gameplay characteristics of the game you will write. For example, in this game, I envisioned the game to begin on a splash screen. The background would be the same as the game's background (moving pipes from right to left). In the center of the screen will be a button to click when you're ready to play, and every time a round begins, you will fade to and from a black screen. This can all be seen in the demo video I provided in the previous step.

In create content pane, we first set the topPanel's background color to black because when we fade the game's screen at the start of a round, it is topPanel that is shown. Next we create an OverlayLayout, which is beneficial because we can make sure the button is on top of the graphic panel, which is not otherwise attainable. Following this, we instantiate the button, a global variable, change a few of its settings, add an ActionListener, then add the button to topPanel. Finally, we instantiate our global PlayGameScreen variable, passing in the screen width, screen height, and a boolean indicating we want the splash screen.

This step is a matter of making the game flow better. If we didn't use this, we would have an abrupt jump from a splash screen to a game screen and it would be very displeasing to play. The fadeOperation method in TopClass will be performing a 'simple' fade-to-black and fade-from-black to start game play.

At this point, we need a while loop to perform the actual fade to black. As in the game loop, we create a variable to hold the iteration time, but this time, the while loop end condition is when the temp panel's alpha value is 255 (fully transparent). Set up an IF statement to tell us how often to affect changes. I then used a simple If-Else statement to dictate how the fade occurs (mostly linearly here). You can do whatever you want here. After this, you set temp's background and refresh topPanel.

Hi, thank you for this very interesting guide. The Flappy Bird.jar file is working, but the source code isn't, when i copy your source code (classes), the game doesn't start. Here is the error that eclipse gives me:Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException

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