Java for Video Games

Duke TIP Academic Adventures, Spring 2008
Alex Kuhl and Dr. Charles Murrill, Sr.
Course Syllabus

Schedule

10:00am Welcome, Introductions, and Class Rules
10:15am Overview
10:30am Projects in Eclipse & Hello World
10:45am FANG Engine, how to import FANG, and a note about the FANG window size
11:00am Wackadot and modifications... and my completed version for reference
12:00pm Collision Detection and Coordinate Systems
12:15pm Lunch
1:00pm Pong Modifications
2:45pm HTML for applets and our easy code
3:15pm Burn Work to CD and Open Discussion for any questions you have
4:00pm Class dismissed

Download Fang

Other links:

FANG Engine Website
How to continue your work at home
Past students' games using the FANG engine
How to add sound to a game
How to make a networked game: Networked Wackadot

Some other notes:

• Google is your friend for most anything
• The projects from class should be okay as-is, but if the student wants to try a new project using FANG they must start a new project and import fang.jar before they begin. This can be dowloaded from fangengine.org, where there are also many tutorials on how to create games with the engine.