How-To's > How do I build a game?

See the following links for tutorials and examples of how to build JavaFX game applications.

• Brick Breaker
  This sample contains a single-user game. It incorporates the following important game concepts:
  • Controlling an onscreen object with user input
  • Displaying onscreen events by using animation
  • Keeping track of scores and lives
  In this game users control an onscreen bat by using a keyboard or mouse. The bat is used to propel a ball to break a wall of bricks. The more bricks you break, the higher your score. Players are assigned a a number of lives. Every time the bat misses hitting the ball, the player loses a life.

• Pac-Man
  This multipart tutorial, written for JavaFX 1.2, walks you though building this popular game as a JavaFX application. In the first part, you create the data model for the maze, which controls drawing the maze. In the second part, you create the Pac-Man character and the following actions that it can execute:
  • Open and close its mouth
  • Walk the maze
  • Change its location based on user input
  • Gobble dots
  In the final part of the tutorial, you create the ghost characters.

• Wishtree
  This game prototype, written for JavaFX 1.2, is a multiuser application that includes the following components of game applications:
  • A JavaFX rich client for user interaction
  • A server handling communication among multiple clients
  • A database for data persistence

Last Updated: April 2010
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