Over the last several years I’ve been getting into making video games in some of my free time. I’ve investigated in quite a few places. I figured I’d write down some observations and point to some tools that may help people with a similar interest. Most of my research was centered toward cross-platform hardware-accelerated 2D games, so I focused on tools that could render with OpenGL.
Java
I started out in this pursuit with Java, and for various reasons I’m back with using Java again.
FattyWars is complete. Need a game you can play with a bunch of people on one computer? This is the solution. FattyWars is a free multiplayer space shooter, where you can play death matches with as many people as you've got controllers. If you've got just yourself, you can play against the CPU. If you've got no controllers, you can use the keyboard. Feel free to drop us a comment about it.
You can download it for free from the FattyWars page.
teaser screen of incomplete game.
Looking for that tune of frogger music you always wanted? Here are a few tips on getting it:
The easiest method of finding music is online. Why do all the work of recording or ripping a song from an old game when someone else has likely done all that work already?
If the game you are looking for is a Commadore 64, NES, or SNES game, you are in luck. They have amazing players for the data files from these games, and amazing resources online loaded with the music already ripped from these games.
by Calvin Janes