Elysian Shadows

So over the weekend I began learning lwjgl (it's not as bad as I thought it would be, but I'm sure it gets a lot harder). Here's my current progress porting: http://i49.tinypic.com/zjgtqd.png Textures are on my todo list now. Also I need to add a lot of functionality back in that I had to erase to m...

Yea I think I wanna go with lwjgl so this thread might go a little bit slower for a while considering I'll have to rewrite a hefty chunk of the code

That library looks really good and looking at it for a while brought me to this library http://libgdx.badlogicgames.com/ which claims desktop(pc and mac)/android (and apparently in the future ios) cross platform support. That all sounds really nice haha :shock2: The only thing is I'm not sure how go...

Well honestly I hadn't realized that the built in java graphics class wasn't hardware accelerated and it was just built in all nicely so I didn't think about using any outside libraries (I read that there is an opengl api for java so I might look into that) This page talks about a method for java ha...

It's looking awesome man. Maybe you could find some free tilesheets online to use as placeholder graphics though (maybe one of these? http://randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com/Sprites/spr-mslug.php) The bullets made me think of metal slug. It might just be a waste of time but I always think it's more ...

Looking, good, homes! You using a shitload of trig for the bullet projections? And you aren't going to hear anybody bitch about your language of choice... Sure, it isn't my favorite, but you're doing something awesome with it, and that's all that matters. Yea dude haha I need to fix a few things I ...

Hey guys, I've lurked these forums for a while and was inspired by a thread about a topdown zombie shooter that was put on xbox live (I can't find the thread anymore though - nevermind haha it's still on the first page) and obviously the AIGD series so I thought I'd post my own creation. Here's a vi...

which is the one where marcel makes a program to create insults and stick them to the screen

So basically...
Unreal sucks and Quake is amazing

go with graphicsgale