Bloggin with Jeff

Been a while since the last post so had to give an update. I’m still working on the Java Role Playing Game and still trying to decide what tools to use. I have decided to go with an Orthogonal Map as opposed to the isometric. I decided on that change because the code required to make it all work, plus creating the isometric tile map creator was getting to be too much. I wanted to start with something a bit simpler. I have been working with my own code to create the role playing game, but decided to try out Slick2d and GTGE (Golden T Game Engine). I felt that using a pre-made library/ engine would help out with all the mundane coding like walking, rendering and collisions. So far one of the things I didn’t like about Slick is that it uses LWJGL. Not that that is a bad thing, but it requires users to click a security box whereas Java2D doesn’t. The other thing about Slick2D was it doesn’t contain any kind of Collision detection that I could find in the docs or in the forums. Collision is one of the main reasons I chose to try out a 3rd party library. As for GTGE so far it is very easy to implement and to take advantage of the simple classes and methods. It does offer the option to use LWJGL, but I havent went into that yet. I am having trouble right now to make the character move diagonally with collision detection, but hopefully I’ll be able to work it out down the road.