A name: Kingdom of Asperion !

Our great in becoming game must have a name. But to have a name, it must have a story. And that's a reality !

Pitch

On a beautiful spring morning, young princess Eleanor of Asperion leaves the castle accompanied by her preceptor in charge of her education. but on the way, they fall into a trap orchestrated by the wicked Gasnarok, a wizard of his state, in order to compel the father of the beautiful Eleanor, King of the country, to abdicate and give up the throne to this vile felon. 

So, the game's name is an evidence :)

Tooling

Fossa.io

On the previous trend, we were using the online service VersionEye. But this service is over now. So we need to switch to another up-and-running service to manage dependencies, security and licensing. This is where we start talking about fossa.io.

And this is completely integrated into the github.com pipe as a service.

Going to gitlab.com

All the WIP projects are deployed on some private repository on gitlab.com. Then, as soon as the project is ready to be published, it is transferred to github.com as a public one.

It's for the team working on those project to benefits of a well integrated and full fitted SaaS with projects, sub-projects, repo, with a some agile dashboard and resource management. Also integrate for futur some efficient user-online-support.

Release Process

And as the project becomes more robust, we are able to publish releases on the github.com repositories. Soon an OSSH maven repo will be available.

Stay tuned !

McG@2018-SEPT-21

GDJ100 !

Game Development with Java

The First french courses to develop a Java game

Last year, I've started writing my first ebook to explain my own discovery of Game development on the java platform.

And suddenly, my spare time disappeared in a Time Vortex...

So I decided to change my way of work and build my book from a tutorial series I am building across months.

So from a Publishing target date in summer 2017, it slides to the End of 2018.

BUT, these approach autorise a more in depth processing of all subjects.

AND yes, I switch to french for a first release. but an english version will come after, I hope ...

So, here is about a series of tutorials, based on a Google Class Room course, where I'll try to teach some basic games development rules and standard, from the famous "Game loop" to the needed basic physic mechanic rules, and some common way to sort things to display those sprites and object in a smart and efficiant way.

The 5 first parts from GDJ101 to GDJ105 are pretty ready to be released, and I am working on the next chapters.

Here is the "menu" :

• GDJ101 Create a Window (Ready to published)
• GDJ102 Game loop pattern and user input (Ready to published)
• GDJ103 GameObjects and Layers (Ready to published)
• GDJ104 Game state machine (Ready to published)
• GDJ105 Resources,UI & i18n (WIP)
• GDJ106 parameters and console(WIP)
• GDJ107 Collision detection (WIP)
• GDJ108 Camera and object tracker (WIP)
• GDJ109 Tilemap and behaviors (ToDo)
• GDJ110 Basic Physic Engine (WIP)
• GDJ111 Particles System and SFX (WIP)
• GDJ112 Musics and Sounds (ToDo)
• GDJ113 Tools and good practices (ToDo)

Soon all the links to courses and git projects will be revealed !

package fr.snapgames.gdj.core;

public class Game {

...

  public static void main(String[] args){

    Game game = new Game("GDJ100");

    game.run();

  }

...

}

figure 1 - some mysterious java code as a teaser !

McG@2018-MAY-03