Is it a bad idea to create a game in pure java?

Question

I watched a game tutorial for eclipse and it took 200 lines of code just to display a blank window, the code consisted of threads, passing objects to methods, using keywords "this" and "new here there and everywhere, inserting peices of code which he didnt really understand but made the code work, it was just horrible....

I have studied java for 2 years and made nothing but a few sl codes

I studied javascript for 2 weeks and made a game and published to playstore

I'm I wasting me time with java? I cant seem to get the whole picture of the language in my mind just seems overly complicated and not always 100% sure what going on behind the scenes with without have to read source code.

Sorry for the rant lol but just wondering if anyone find this language a never ending story.😅

My js game
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chaosgamez.magmabat

Answer 1

Most of my university course work to date has involved using Java Swing. I’ve had to build several games with Swing for various assignments, Tetris, Tic-Tac-Toe, Clue, etc.
Game development with Java is absolutely something you can do.
Martin Taylor is 100% correct and has given you some excellent examples to get started with.
If you need more examples I can share some of my assignments with you as well.

Answer 2

Martin Taylor thanks, I will try this tommrow I have watched a few tutorials now and they have all diffrent ways of creating the window, I think my problem is understanding how threads work I understand that the main method is called by a thread but then I'm thinking why do I need a thread to call my method if i can just call it my self 😅 because in javascript this is all done on one thread were methods just call them selfs.

did you say 200 lines of code indeed because it's true?

Answer 3

D_Stark

Can I have the link of your game published to play store? I want to play your game~

It's a webview or coded with ReactNative?

Answer 4

Martin Taylor quote me right. I said use Spring MVC for web applications. When I said pure Java, I only meant OOP. Also I have clearly stated regarding the supporting API's in the very 1st sentence.

You might know the language a lot better than I do but I try my best to not put forward misleading answers.

Answer 5

Instead java use kotlin
As kotlin is now the official language for android

Answer 6

D_Stark Sir, can you please share the link of your Javascript game ?

I also want to make one 🙄

Haven't you use HTML and CSS in it ?

I have not much know on Java, so I also don't know it 😅

Answer 7

Hey ℍ𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕪 💕 𝕻𝖔𝖙𝖙𝖊𝖗 ⚡✨ Gordon , if your following this thread I put a link to the game in the question, I made in pure javascript no css then uploaded to playstore.

Answer 8

IMHO Java is better for enterprise software and Android development. If your game is for Android I don't think it's a bad idea but you also have other alternatives like ReactNative if JS is your thing.

Answer 9

Martin Taylor have you made any apps with java?

Answer 10

I think no but you have to learn c++ and other language..

Answer 11

D_Stark what did you use to make magmabat? If phonegap or cordova, I would like to ask you questions since I have problems to scale content, which looks well on sl or browsers

Answer 12

Sonic I really wanted to create a game in java but I feel like I'm missing somthing and cant figure out what it is😔 javascript is an alternative and I'm capable of making games with this but for some reason I have put so much time into java I want to get somthing back from it.

Answer 13

for me it is a bad idea for two reasons. First is that java is slow and the second is that if you use swing or javafx it won’t use the graphical card (i think).

Answer 14

Just try, you will see.

Answer 15

No ....but you should have a great knowledge of java for it

Answer 16

No it is working

Answer 17

Pure Java in itself is not capable of doing a lot of stuff without supporting API's that you might be able to do with JavaScript. You need to mix it up a little, do android development, learn Spring MVC and try creating web applications or learn JavaFX and build a desktop application.

I'm telling you this because you need to explore more, not just the language but other technologies that could be integrated with Java to build cool stuff.

When you talk about large scale enterprise level applications, you will find Java and C# as backend languages in most of the cases.

Btw JavaScript is weird.
And unfortunately I'm learning it too.

Answer 18

Подскажите, что не так в коде?
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Main {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Scanner read = new Scanner(System.in);
int number = read.nextInt();
int a = number%10;
int b = number%9;
int c = number%4;
int d = number%6;
if(a==0&&b==0){
System.out.println ("You won $200");
}else if(c==0||d==0){
System.out.println ("You won $50");
}else{
System.out.println("Try agan.");
}
//ваш код

}
}

Answer 19

Java