Beginner to game programming

hello everyone
I am trying to write a he-man fighting game. I have just started and am pretty new to game devlopment, but thanks to java.sun I found the animation to walk. I used that code and edited for jumping and throwing a basic punch. my problem is this. all the images I have are jpgs from the old cartoon show. how do I render them in java to look like "video game images" (an actual part of the game, instead of an image moving in a back ground
thanks

if its Image manipulation your doing, then you need a Paint package such as PhotoShop or Paint Shop Pro (the later being freely downloadable shareware)
as for making them look Professional - thats what Professional game artists do :)
There are lots of packages for building 3D scenes and rendering them out as 2D images.
Most of them cost a stack of [$$$|��|<place your currency here>].
3D Studio Max, Lightwave and Maya are the ones that immediately spring to mind, but there are lots of others.

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First of all, arrays are a very good idea, as are other datastructures such as the hashtable. But you can also use a String, which is basically an array of characters.
The initial hurdle you will have in writing a card game will be modelling a single playing card. Your program will likely understand the sequence of cards as 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13, even tho you will want to present this to your user as 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K, A. Computers deal well with the numbers, Humans like to refer to cards using the familiar symbolic references (J, Q, K, A). Suits likewise will probably be stores as integers (0-3).
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Let's say you have a player on the applet window. He can move right and left.
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Hi Thanks for the advice.
I'm under the impression that if I used jdk1.4
everybody who wanted to play the game would have to go
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you can make sonic the hedge hog run and jump
http://www.swebdev.com/Adventure.html
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might be an answer? I would be glad to hear all kinds
of suggestions on the sample code seen thereYou shouldn't need a separate thread just to reverse the image. If your little guy is already in his own thread, just switch the image that is displayed when the player hits the opposite direction key.
Think of threads like puppets, and you are the puppet master. Your little guys is a puppet, so he should be in his own thread. You can make him do whatever you want from your thread (the master) by pulling strings (changing globals, and message passing)
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I am working in j2me game programming plz if
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Helo everyone,
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Depending on your specific image and the devices you'll see it on you may or may not notice the difference, but the file size is generally smaller.
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Message was edited by: Mihalis Tsoukalos

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