This month we’ll be doing an Android smartphone project. We’ll be writing a game that will run on any Android phone. (If you don’t have an Android phone, don’t worry, I’ll be showing how to install an Android emulator on your computer so you can follow along.)

See the code step-by-step

Links from the chat room:

• Android SDK http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
• IntelliJ http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
• Java (needed for Windows) http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7u9-downloads-1859576.html
• OpenClipart http://www.openclipart.org

Assets in today’s game:

• tank by David St. Clair
• explosion by “dominiquechappard”
• molotov cocktail by Zeimusu, nicubunu
• nuclear explosion by “tzunghaor”

Happy Thanksgiving! We’ll be doing a new Java game involving turkeys and American football.

Links from the chat room:

• IntelliJ http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
• Java (needed for Windows) http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7u9-downloads-1859576.html
• OpenClipart http://www.openclipart.org

Assets in today’s game:

• landscape with red farm by “rg1024”
• yak by Jordan Irwin “Deluge”
• turkey by “johnny_automatic”

This week we’ll be doing more with graphics and animation and learning how to better organize code to make writing games even easier.

Links from the chat room:

• IntelliJ http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
• Java (for Windows) http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7u9-downloads-1859576.html
• OpenClipart http://www.openclipart.org
• Gimp http://www.gimp.org

Assets in today’s game:

• fire and flames remixes by “worker”
• Apartment building by “rdevries”
• LEGO Town – fireman byt “pitr”
• LEGO Town – fireman 2 by “pitr”
• Ambulance by “bnsonger47”, Cyrille Largillier “cyrille”

This week we’ll be remaking the classic DOS game “Bouncing Babies”, in which firemen desperately attempt to rescue babies that are being thrown from a burning building. We’ll be using familiar patterns from previous episodes, and doing more complicated animations and game mechanics.

See the code step-by-step

Links from the chat room:

• IntelliJ http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
• Java (for Windows) http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7u9-downloads-1859576.html
• OpenClipart http://www.openclipart.org

This week we’ll be doing another Java project, this time making a game to scare your friends and family with for Halloween! I’ll also be sure to quickly cover the installation of IntelliJ for those who had trouble last week, and I’ve worked out the kinks with the chat room sign up, so feel welcome to chime in during the cast.

See the code step-by-step

Links from the chat room:

• IntelliJ http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/
• Java (for Windows) http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7u9-downloads-1859576.html
• Gimp http://www.gimp.org
• Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net
• Freesound http://www.freesound.org

We’ll be writing a pong game to demonstrate basic Java programming with graphics and animation. By the end you’ll know enough to be able to start playing around with simple game programming on your own.

See the code step-by-step