Status & Poll

Been kind of busy lately with life, attempting to get into the android market but still have a lot of knowledge to share on making games in Java, I've been wanting to do more jogl and step up to some of the changes in jogl 2.0. I thought I would create a poll to help give me a little direction on what I should post here that would be the most useful for readers.

One of the big issues I have been wrestling with is making games vs. engines it's a tough thing. Especially since my engine is 90% there and almost ready to start being used to make complete games, I have had a few setbacks with select pieces of the design. Aside from that, my day job has been cutting into the amount of energy and desire I have to code when I get home.

This is probably the first actual blog post I've written, weird but it's the truth. Mainly I started this blog to post snippets I wanted to save and to help other developers to see how I solve some of the problems in making Java games. So I figured what the hell I'll actually start blogging instead of letting this blog just sit around idling in the blog'o'sphere.

So please take a second to vote on the poll for the things you are looking for and I will do what I can to help.

TapMania: First Android Test App

I have been getting into Android application development and wrote a small application to get my feet wet. This application just tests some OpenGL render capabilities, touch screen functionality, displays some text output for debugging purposes, and gives some basic menu options.

If you wanna try it out and test your phones touch screen and also help me determine how well it runs on other devices, I would greatly appreciate it. This will also help me to create some snippets for android and let you know what issues I find and things about performance for android games. So far the OpenGL-ES on android is working great on my phone I would love to know how it works on others.

I am still going through the process of setting the application up for publication to the android market as a demo to get more feedback and to grow the application into a game.

Let me know what you think!

Link to apk:

• TapMania.apk (link now removed, app available on the android market)

Note: After realizing that the link to my google sites did not successfully allow you to install from your phone I finished the publishing process and got it up on the android market. I have a few small updates that I will publish this weekend.