Legends of Eriador v6 update vid Java 2d rpg game

[daftong919]

First of all, awesome work!

And secondly, I have two question..

First, can I do this on NetBeans platform?

Second, can Java games be 3d?

Please respond! And keep up the great work :D

[1tactic23]

@daftong919 Thanks! :)

1. Yeah sure why not, Netbeans and Eclipse are just an IDE which will help you code in java. I use eclipse as I like it more.

2. Ofcourse they can be in 3d! look at minecraft or runescape. You could use librabries like opengl or engines like jMonkeyEngine

[daftong919]

@1tactic23 Thanks for the quick response buddy! I'm actually now starting to work on games, i'm using Java as a school subject, but as a hobby, i'm torn apart between Java and Unity[Java Script]

From what I've seen so far, unity graphics are better, any idea if you can somewhat improve the Java games graphics? [To my game, graphics are really important...]

[1tactic23]

@daftong919 Do you mean graphics for 2d or graphics for 3d? As the graphics of Legends of Eriador suck because I made them myself and not a spriter. To improve the graphics, is to make more detailed sprites

[Epixtome]

It's too bad there is no code source so we could use it to learn! :D

[1tactic23]

@Epixtome Luckily I do give tutorials and lessons! PM on youtube if your interested ;)

[TheGameCollection]

Awesome work, Thijs and Josh :P LOE looks epic so far.

[1tactic23]

@TheGameCollection thank you! Don't forget brett though :)

[mattstevenson12]

Where did you get your sprites? Very nice game! I would love a download link to test it. I could be your guy's bug tester... :D

I also program in Java/C++ so I could also help you out :P

[1tactic23]

@mattstevenson12 Thanks for commenting! Some of the sprites we just got from google, some were made ourselfs. We are currently working on actually make the game playable and after we will need testers!

I'm glad you can code, but we already have 2 coders (Brett and me) so we have enough, sorry

I will send you a pm with my skype so you can add me :D

[IL2ocelot]

@1tactic23

Im having fun just following the dev. phase of this game. It'd be great if you made some game concept videos, as im new to java and I have to figure out 80% of how to make things work. This may seam stupid, but how did you do your map? I am going to presume it is an individual tile, say grass, put into an array or something? and in your coding you have the array read out to display the maps, im probbably ont making alot of sense. aha, but im having a blast learning java. :)

[1tactic23]

@IL2ocelot Actually, we made a .png with every tile next to each other with the dimensions of 32x32. After that we made a int[][] which holds every tile of the map so for example 1 is grass 2 is water. Then we used a for loop in the paint method which then drew every tile according to its 'id'. So let's say the id 1 is for grass, the paintComponent will then check which picture is connected to that, so inside the .png it will be pixel 0 - 32 and then it will draw that.

[IL2ocelot]

@1tactic23

ahhh, thats great!

Im reading `developing games in java,' by david brackeen, but the biggest problem i have is actually sitting down and starting coding. Always seems to be something more interesting to do.

[1tactic23]

@IL2ocelot I had that too in the beginning, but after some time it went away for me. Now, everyday I'm thinking how to improve the game ;) When I come up something cool I code it in :D

[1tactic23]

@IL2ocelot @1tactic23 I'd say, just start and you'll start liking it more ;)

[1tactic23]

@gorillaturd29 Actually we will be adding alot of armour and ofcourse other items. Please subscribe for more updates!

[goldridder789]

my grammar fails!!!!!!! so f*cking hard! it will change I promise!

[killarockdude]

sweet

[firemen405]

Netjes!

[raideron13]

Why don't you just use slash commands for cheats?

[1tactic23]

@raideron13 Because every game with cheats has that :D We wanted something different :P