Game Engine in Java, is it practical idea?

[chan_nguyen]

Hi everyone,

I have a project that ask to write a simple game engine using Java, a very very simple one. I just want to ask how can I start with this project? Any recommendation would be appreciated.

Thanks,

[m00nchile]

It is very practical, coding a simple game is pretty easy in java. Look up Killer programming in java, it covers the basics, double buffering, the update draw render loop etc... all in all a very usefull resource.

[chan_nguyen]

Hi MoonChile,

Thanks a lot for your quick response. However, I'm not talking about a simple game but a "game engine". In this project, I actually have to provide a set of APIs that can work like other Graphics Framework in java, for example, load a picture, display a picture... It will not be complex like others, but simple enough ( 2D Graphics is my initial plan ) to do those things.
In C++, we have "graphics.h", and I can write a wrapper around Windows API to do those things. But I'm too new to Java, so to get started is such a problem for me. Do you have any other idea? Thank you.

Thanks,