In the course of training in programming in Visual Basic, Delphi or Java trainees are usually offered to write as the first program the program Hello Word. It is possibly right. As a rule you need only 2-3 code lines to write the program. Would you believe that your second program in any of the languages can contain about 1900 code lines, use scores of objects, process signals from keyboard and work with Timer? And would you believe that programming in one of the languages ( Visual Basic, Delphi or Java) you would master in 2-3 days two other languages from the list?

After a lot of hard work, we have made it to finish the English version of the tutorial. As I said, you should be already able to program in Java, although you don't have to be a expert! The tutorial 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 (6 - ...) 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 sourcecode of the applet we programmed in this chapter and you can take a look at the working applet too. Alright, here we go!

A step-wise tutorial to make a 2D platform game in Java.