2D graphics rendering in Java

Question

I'm developing a game similar to pokemon (Yellow/Red/Blue) and I'm kind of lost on how to create an interactive map. Any thoughts on this would be helpful, I'm not even sure where to begin.

Answer 1

Try contacting Toni Epple and see if he will release an early version of his JavaFX Game Engine.

• An article on using the framework as a TileEngine for Pokemon like games.
• The engine makes use of the TMX tile map format and integrates JavaFX with Box2D for physics.
• Here is SpaceInvaders in 175 LOC.

Even if you the engine is not yet available publicly, Toni's TileEngine blog entry should provide with some good background knowledge on how to get started.

Here is a YouTube link to the engine doing path finding on a TileMap and Toni has other demos in his YouTube account.

The Java Gaming forums provide excellent resources for Java game development and an active and helpful community.

Answer 2

You may want to learn to use JavaFX to develop your game.

Here is one tutorial, but there are many on the Internet:

http://carlfx.wordpress.com/2012/03/29/javafx-2-gametutorial-part-1/

I think that Swing is too difficult to work with compared to JavaFX, but it would be another option. For more info to help you decide you can look at this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1318645/javafx-or-swing