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Killer Game Programming in Java
Although the number of commercial Java games is still small compared to those written in C or C++, the market is expanding rapidly. Recent updates to Java make it faster and easier to create powerful gaming applications-particularly Java 3D-is fueling an explosive growth in Java games. Java games like Puzzle Pirates, Chrome, Star Wars Galaxies, Runescape, Alien Flux, Kingdom of Wars, Law and Order II, Roboforge, Tom Clancy's Politika, and scores of others have earned awards and become bestsellers. Java developers...
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June 04, 2005: Until very recently, there was no serious commercial game development in Java. For various reasons of varying validity, as Davison explains. The most compelling being the slowness of Java bytecode compared to C/C binaries, and the lack of a Java compiler on the Sony Playstation. But if you are pondering doing a Java game nowadays, then things look brighter. The latest Java 5 Hotspot compiler can mean that Java code is now only about 10% slower. For all but the most extreme...
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Andrew Davison received his Ph.D. from Imperial College in London in 1989. He was a lecturer at the University of Melbourne for six years before moving to Prince of Songkla University in Thailand in 1996. He has also taught in Bangkok, Khon Kaen, and Hanoi. His research interests include scripting languages, logic programming, visualization, and teaching methodologies. This latter topic led to an interest in teaching games programming in 1999. His O'Reilly book, Killer Game Programming in Java ,...
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