Simple/newbie 2D game creation

this is my first attempt at creating any game. i am unsure how to even begin creating a simple 2D game similar to old "Hugo's House Of Horrors" for dos. It's kind of like the final fight in the way the characters move through the environment. any help is appreciated

the first step is to sit down and write on paper, this has helped me, and plan the game out. The main points in animation/game creation is the x and y coordinates u must understand those like u would english. then the if statements that come with determining if one object ( a space ship ) is in in another objects ( enemy space ship ) space or the same x and y coordinate...remember u must always map everything out.
www.google.com search: java game programming
that should set u on your way..

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Finding a decent, free flash 8 tutorial on the internet for game creation, is no easy task. I have been through this frustration time and time again, and I am getting nowhere. My actionscript is very basic and I desperately need something to go on.
I have a game project, in which I have an enemy. One enemy. I would like to duplicate this enemy until there are five on the screen at once, and when I hit my enemies, more will appear as a constant wave of enemies until the character dies.
How can I do this?

As mentioned, the help documents and Google are some of the best resources for all levels of users. You can find FREE information/tutorials on just about every aspect of Flash. Another good approach is to pick a project, get to work on it, and use these tools as needed to solve the design puzzles you are confronted with. That's pretty much how I've always done things.
I've already pointed you in the direction for what you need to look into for dynamically adding new instances of things, so your first stop should be in the help documents to see what that method involves. And if there isn't enough information there for you to comfortably start trying things, then search Google.

Game creation on a mac

I know this might not be the right place to post this sort of topic...but, I was wondering what the best tools are for game creation on a mac. I have heard Unity and Torque Gam Engine are good ones but I am hopefully looking toward something that is freeware. Any suggestions?
I have heard there are engines for Unreal and Quake, etc that are free...

Snapz Pro supports digital audio capture, and microphone capture.
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Regarding the timing of the subtitles or captions in iMovie, what I did was to place the playhead (the moving triangle) where I wanted the subtitle inserted (the subtitle starts from that very point, and lasts as long as you set it in the Speed slider), Edit/Split Video Clip at Playhead and then dragged the subtitle from the gallery to that place in the timeline.
Some subtitles can last up to a few seconds, and ohers, like "Music Video", up to ten minutes.
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Simple java pathfinder game

Hi
Is any1 willing to make me a simple java pathfinder game in return for some money? details will be given on request...

Sod off and do your own homework.

Is Adobe AIR/Flex good to begin in game creation ?

Hi all !
I have a little question, I want to begin to learn how to create little games (2D games first) (I'm more a Web/Server Side Programmer/Administrator than a Desktop pPogrammer), and I would like to know is Adobe AIR/Flex (without using the Flash IDE if possible) is good for that ?
It looks a lot easer than the others ways (Java, C++, python), no needs to think in "threads","mutex",etc and other things like that, and the multimedia API help a lot for the video/sound side
So, what about creating games with Adobe AIR ? What about performances ? Is it possible to create 3D games ?
Thank you !

Personally I'm still debating whether to start learning iPhone development or AIR at this particular point.
At any rate, anything you can do in Flash you can do in Air, so I'd probably start with the Kongregate game creation tutorial. It's AS2 not AS3, but it will give you an idea what you can accomplish with a couple hours of development.
No idea how good it is for 3D, but a lot of those "virtual tour" things are done in Flash. Probably not your best starting point if your plan is to make your own FPS but...

Is this a bug or a simple Newbie mistake?

Hi.
I'm brand new to JavaFX, so I'm probably misunderstanding something. I've searched the web looking for information concerning it, but since it involves the 'new' operator, it's hard to filter down.
Anyhow, here is the problem:
I'm getting different results when I instantiate an object
using the 'new' operator vs. the declaring it the more
accepted JavaFX way.
This is how I found the "problem".
In order to learn how to program in JavaFX, I found a simple game from the Internet, "Blasteroids", to look at (http://www.remwebdevelopment.com/dev/a41/Programming-Games-in-JavaFX-Part-1.html). I copied and pasted this into:
NetBeans IDE 6.9 (Build 201006101454)
JavaFX 1.3 and got the game to work.
In playing around with it, I converted instantiating an object from the "normal" way:
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        posY: y
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            * randomVelocity
        velocityY: -Math.cos(Math.toRadians(moveAngle))
            * randomVelocity
        rotation_increment: rotation_increment
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        return a;To using the "new" operator:
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        a.type = type;
        a.posX = x;
        a.posY = y;
        a.moveAngle = moveAngle;
        a.velocityX = Math.sin(Math.toRadians(moveAngle)) * randomVelocity;
        a.velocityY = -Math.cos(Math.toRadians(moveAngle))* randomVelocity;
        a.rotation_increment = rotation_increment;
        a.active = true;
        return a;This is the only changes I made. I would "toggle" back and forth between the two, and I would always get the same results.
When I did this conversion, the ship would show up, but the asteroids were gone. Actually, I think they were invisible because every once and a while, my ship would "blow up" and get reset to it's starting position. I tried adding:
a.visible = true;
But that didn't help.
Indecently, I did the same thing with defining the "Stage" using a new operator, and got differing results:
1. the window would open in the bottom right of my screen (vs filling up
most of my screen. I would have to drag it up to play.
2. it had a regular windows border with the minimize, maximize, close
buttons in the top right (vs. a non-movable, border less window with no
maximize, minimize, close buttons.)
Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?
Thank you

I suspect you've run into bugs in the Blasteroids program and possibly in Stage in the JavaFX runtime.
For simple cases one would think there should be no difference between this:
var so = SomeObject {
    a: 1
    b: 2
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}and this:
var so = SomeObject { }; // or var so = new SomeObject();
so.a = 1;
so.b = 2;
so.c = 3;However, these cases do run through different code paths. In the first case, the init-block of SomeObject sees all the values provided by the caller. In the second case, the triggers on the a, b, and c variables would have to modify the internal state of the object appropriately. If the object has a lot of complex state, the result at the end of setting the three variables (and running their triggers) might not be identical to the object literal after initialization. This is most likely a bug. If an object isn't prepared to have its state variables modified after initialization, it should make them public-init instead of public.
Depending on the object, though, initializing things via an object literal vs. setting variables after initialization might actually have different semantics. This seems to be the case with Stage. The Stage's size is established by its contents at initialization time, and its location at initialization time is determined by using its contents' size and the screen size to center the Stage on the screen. If you create the Stage empty, and then later add contents, the sizing/centering calculations will be based on an empty Stage and will thus give a different result.
Using the object literal technique is idiomatic JavaFX Script, and it's probably more efficient than setting variables after initialization, so I'd recommend sticking with object literals.

Newbie Query regarding creation of Recovery disks and Backups

Hello ppl/Admins,
Some clarification required (my questions might seem dummy ...but i have no choice).
I'm a newbie and just received my first laptop ever Lenovo 3000 N200 0769 (WinXP).
My queries are:
1) If i create a 'Complete Backup' under Lenovo care application will that include the entire hidden partition? Or do i need to use some other software like Norton Ghost to backup the entire image of the hard drive?
2) Is there a way to only backup the hidden partition?
3) I have noticed in other threads users refering to system and recovery disks, what/how are they used/created (i dont see any
create recovery disk option under lenovo care button)? How does a recovery or system disk differ from a backup?
My sole intention is to save/backup the hidden partition so that i could restore the laptop into its factory settings if things go wrong, so if anyone could help....it will be much appreciated.
Thanks!

Hi atomic, if you look under the lenovo program file you will see two different entries that relate to restore / recovery, I'm not at my machine now to directly tell you what is called, other than one is towards the top half and the other nearer the bottom.
The one at the bottom has two options, the first is to create recovery media (I'm presuming this is for if rescue & recovery fails to boot up).
Under this there is then a 2nd option that refers to creating a restore cd, of which it will only let you make s single copy under MS licencing. I'm of the impression that if required and used, it will take a user back to factory restore settings i.e. original factory restore as it arrived. This I'm presuming will image the partition as well.
As for the other recovery option higher up the menu, this is for actuslly creating backups and restoring system and/or files.

2 simple newbie questions!

hi, I have some simple questions. I already searched on the web for some answers but I couldnt find any :(
1. Is there any way to make a class execute another class's method every x minutes (say 5)? like an external signal that every 5 minutes executes "regelsysteem.genereerOverzicht()"
2. i would like to retrieve the system's current time and date (in string format), how could i do this?
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1. See Timer in the API Docs.
2. See Date, Calendar, and DateFormat ditto.

A simple question about games

Hello people
Ok so i got an 80GB iPod and apparently it has a pre-loaded game on it :O
So how do i download the game to my itunes library for backup?

Steel box wrote:
Ok so i got an 80GB iPod and apparently it has a pre-loaded game on it :O
So how do i download the game to my itunes library for backup?
You don't. They are part of the firmware. If you need to restore your iPod to factory settings they will be recreated as part of the process.
My tv episodes are not syncing right... They are all out of order. *not even in alphabetical order.
They appear correctly in the itunes window *and under the tv shows tab in the ipod tab.
Bt when looking at the episodes on the iPod the episodes are all jumbled up how do i fix thiis?
You're not alone here. From other posts it appears that they should sort correctly if the release date is present, however there is no easy way to adjust this. Failing this, they seem to be ordered with most recently added to the libray first, but it's not really clear what the basis is.
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Newbie Struts ActionForm creation question in JDeveloper

Hey guys,
I am playing around with Struts and the JDeveloper functionality for that framework. So I am getting the hang of the diagramatic way of viewing the entire Web application by graphically creating the struts-config.xml file. That is great.
But now I have a question. Suppose I have a simple Login jsp page and I created it using the Struts html tag library. So I guess I am to have a corresponding ActionForm object for that page. How does one go about creating an ActionForm object corresponding to a particular JSP page diagramatically in struts-config.xml? I hope my question makes sense.

Hmm, I guess you just specify what ActionForm you are wanting to take the parameter values from by just editing the properties of the Action object itself. I think I figured out the answer guys. Thanks anyway.

Adding a simple timer to game

I created a game. It's not a quiz, but i tell the users they have 60 seconds to complete it. How do i create a timer with 60 seconds to add to the slide. if they finish within the 60 seconds then their fine. it takes them to a new screen. If they run out of time I will give them one more chance. if they run out of time a second time it will direct them to another screen that basically says they failed.
Any and all help will be appreicated.
Thanks!

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Game Creation

I have an old dance mat and want to practice my Java skills so I'm looking at building a dance mat game for my evil Vista PC.
The dance mat seems to configure with windows perfectly but I haven't tried to experiment with listener classes to see if I can get it to work. I going to try the KeyListener class but does anyone have any idea if this will work, and if not how can I build my own Lister class to receive input or what other class should I use?
Also I want to be able to take control of the full screen in the same way as any other video game. Can I just use the JWindow class and set the size to the same resolution as my desktop? Also how can I change my monitors resolution using Java?

warnerja wrote:
Thanks for taking the time to create an account here and post an ill-formed question, thus basically taking up some more space in the forum database.I don't think this post is very helpful. For starters relative to other first posts here it's not that bad. It's a bit vague certainly and the OP is in for some nasty surprised to be sure but it's not begging for the codes, a do-my-homework-for-me post and it doesn't contain copius amounts of SMS or the word urgent.
I think if you at least said "your question would be better if you said X", then there is at least something the OP can take from your post. And I assume, perhaps incorrectly, that you would prefer better formed questions but without you giving some idea on how the OP should do that I am not sure how he/she is supposed to improve.

Probably a simple newbie question...

Hi. I'm teaching myself DVD SP (4.2) by putting together a very simple project but am stumped on what's probably an obvious solution.
I have as my first play a quick slideshow with an accompanying music track. It automatically goes into my main Menu as its End Jump. I'd like that music track to continue on uninterrupted into the Menu. How do I do that? Right now it cuts out as it goes into the Menu.
Thanks in advance...

Make the slideshow in the other apps or you can change the slideshow to a track (make sure to make a copy it is only one way conversion) then bring that into a track (or add the other elements to the end of the converted slideshow) and use buttons over video to make a "menu"
Often you can make the similar slideshow quickly in iMovie or iPhoto if needed then bring that into FInal Cut (or AE) to finish the rest of the movie
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Newbie Webcam Gamer

Hi guys im totally new to game development and I think i may have bitten off more than I can chew.
I have to create a game which uses a webcam as input.
Can anyone recommend a type of game that i would be best developing from peoples past experience. Ive found loads of decent game development libraries but if anyone could recommend any it would help alot.
Thanks guys Mike

To elaborate on delta's idea, if you have enough development time (not sure on how hard the actually motion detection will be), have the objects try and get to an object your are trying to protect, more objects at greater velocities increase with time. Scenarios include fighters and damsel in distress (not literally, could be anyone), maybe some top-down thing where you are the hand of god thing going on (little people), spaceships space station or planet needing to be protected, etc.

Simple command line pdf creation

I need to create a pdf that is simply combining graphic files in a directory.
Using VBScript I would like to be able to provide the output pdf name as well as all files to be included. I have looked but could not find an easy solution. I also could not find example code.
I am not opposed to writting C# code to create a program to do this but there must be something out there that does this already. I have Acrobat available but again no simple solution to provide the output name and input files.
Lou

Would it still be possible to use a powershell script that will open the document. would look like:
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Would i be able to accomplish something similiar by using the SDK??

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