Side Scrolling Game Help

Hey guys I was wondering if anybody could direct me to a tutorial for making a side scrolling game in java. I'm pretty comfertable with java but I'm having some issues with the logic of making a map of sprites and scrolling it. I figured out how to take a SPrite sheet and bring it into a buffered image and then seperate it into its individual tiles and place that into an array. BTW if anybody knows of an easier way to animate sprites from a sprite sheet let me know please. Thanks,
Darcmagik

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HELP witha SIDE SCROLLING GAME PLEASE!!!!!!!!!

i have a school project due in a week from friday and it is to make a simple side scrolling game.
i am desperate and need help so i would REALLY appreciate some code
thank you- JOHN
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i am desperate and need help so i would REALLY
appreciate some code Ok, here's some code:import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class SideScrollingGame extends JFrame implements ActionListener {
    SideScrollingGame() {
        initializeGUI();
        this.setVisible(true);
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
        if (ae.getSource() == jbDone) {
            this.setVisible(false);
            this.dispose();
    private void initializeGUI() {
        int width = 400;
        int height = 300;
        this.setSize(width, height);
        this.getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        this.setTitle(String.valueOf(title));
        Dimension d = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
        Random rand = new Random();
        int x = rand.nextInt(d.width - width);
        int y = rand.nextInt(d.height - height);
        this.setLocation(x, y);
        addTextFieldPanel();
        addButtonPanel();
    private void addTextFieldPanel() {
        JPanel jp = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
        jp.add(new JLabel(String.valueOf(title)));
        jp.add(jtfInput);
        this.getContentPane().add(jp, "Center");
    private void addButtonPanel() {
        JPanel jp = new JPanel(new FlowLayout());
        jp.add(jbDone);
        jbDone.addActionListener(this);
        this.getContentPane().add(jp, "South");
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        while(true) {
            new SideScrollingGame();
    private char title[] = { 0x49, 0x20, 0x41, 0x6d, 0x20,
                             0x41, 0x20, 0x4c, 0x61, 0x7a,
                             0x79, 0x20, 0x43, 0x72, 0x65,
                             0x74, 0x69, 0x6e };
    private ArrayList printers = new ArrayList();
    private JButton jbDone = new JButton("Done");
    private JTextField jtfInput = new JTextField(20);
}

Side Scrolling game

im looking into making a 2D side scrollng game (like original mario was) and was wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of the stuff i need to know. I know the challenge, i jsut need documentations or something like that.
Also it would help if i knew how to read the API's >_<

I would use java.awt.Rectangle for detecting collisions and stuff.
Maybe make classes for the people and non-moveable objects with the Rectangle or Image(s).
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Now, I'm not sure if this is in the right section..
But I'm working on a videogame, and I'm newish to Flash. I found out that you can import .gifs to the stage, and now what I want to do is make it so you can move it side to side with the arrow keys. And I can do it fine with a single frame, something that doesn't move, but obviously I need the sprites to make a walking motion.
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make the world objects totally independent of the grid while the bricks be dependent on it. have the world objects in a list with their positions stored in the object itself. When your doing, say, collision checking with bricks, just take their positions and see if the cell it occupies has a brick in it.
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I wouldn't want any of you to write this program for me because I want to learn it myself. Yes I'm a student and I have to write some game with my groupe for a telephone in java like language doja. We decided to let it be a chess game. However I'm looking for an already written game in java that preferebly has some comments above the program lines so I can see what they've done. Offcourse if nobody has anything like this, yes I'm looking for a way to make an algorithm that makes the cpu move each time the player makes it's move. I have no idea on how to do this. I was hoping it can be solved with for, while, if and genest for statements. Yes it wil be a game with graphics but I think we can manage that part ourselves. So main question is the algorithm for the cpu moves. Do I have to pre-program every game in the book or is there another way etc..
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Hi
I'm trying to develop a small side scroller. At the moment I'm having problems with the rendering.
I can't get it to render fluently. Every two seconds it jitters.
It would be great if someone could have a look and give me a hint.
I have striped the code down so you only have what is needed.
local.game.Main.java -- starting point of the app. 100 entities are created and saved in a layer
local.game.GameController.java -- (Contructor) window, bufferstrategy creation.
local.game.GameController.java -- (run()) game loop
local.game.GameController.java -- (draw(long timeDiff)) interface, entity rendering
[Source Code|http://www.speedshare.org/download.php?id=482AF5D511]

A few things.
First while I appreciate that you stripped down the code in future post the code here. Do not post it as a zip somewhere else. Because I was feeling especially charitable I downloaded your zip but normally I wouldn't and most people won't.
Second I noticed two things right away about your code.
1) Do you know that Swing is double buffered already? Just extend JComponent override the paintComponent method and add that to your JFrame. Bang done no more buffer fooling around with.
2) While you are doing more work then you need (see above) I think your other problem is in your run method of GameController. By the way is this class Runnable in your non-stripped down version? Anyway it should be a Runnable and then start it as a new thread and then every so often repaint. So how to do every so often? You can sleep or you can use a SwingTimer. Either way really.
The way you appear to be doing it is VERY CPU intensive and... well wrong. And I think you have a math problem somewhere as well. So that's why it gets the jitters.

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