Developing Games in Java

If you already have Java programming experience and are looking to program games, this book is for you. **David Brackeen**, along with co-authors **Bret Barker** and **Lawrence Vanhelsuwe**, show you how to make fast, full-screen action games such as side scrollers and 3D shooters. Key features covered in this book include Java 2 game programming techniques, including latest 2D graphics and sound technologies, 3D graphics and scene management, path-finding and artificial intelligence, collision detection, game scripting using BeanShell, and multi-player game engine creation.

If you already have Java programming experience and are looking to program games, this book is for you. David Brackeen, along with co-authors Bret Barker and Lawrence Vanhelsuwe, show you how to make fast, full-screen action games such as side scrollers and 3D shooters. Key features covered in this book include Java 2 game programming techniques, including latest 2D graphics and sound technologies, 3D graphics and scene management, path-finding and artificial intelligence, collision detection, game scripting using BeanShell, and multi-player game engine creation.

Very nice. I had ran across some of the code from the book on a repository on-line so sought it out. It's enough to get you most of the way, about 75%, and gives you hints for the rest. It doesn't lead you by the nose, and explains all that they do very well. I'm actually using this book as a reference for my senior project, it's that good. Even if you are using APIs more sophisticated than Java2D and AWT, this is still a valuable book A guide to Java game programming techniques covers such topics as 2D and 3D graphics, sound, artificial intelligence, multi-player games, collision detection, game scripting and customizing keyboard and mouse controls.