I started a chess applet. So far the board and pieces are there. The difficult part, actually making it play chess, is still ahead of me. The board is an eight-by-eight integer array. Positive and negative values distinguish the two sides, and the number identifies which piece image to draw. The paint method draws the […]
I made a little Java drawing experiment called Tendron. It starts with a few lines and turns into a branching, rather plant-like scribble. There is not really a game here; I just wanted to see what the pattern would do. A Cluster creates four Tendril objects pointing into different quadrants. Each tendril draws short randomized […]
I made a little paint program in Java. Drag the mouse to draw, click a color in the palette, and keep drawing. It is not going to replace Paint, but it is mine. The applet listens for mouse presses, releases, and dragging. The palette is an image with different clickable coordinate regions; choosing one updates […]
This one got a little bigger than a simple penny-pitch game. There is still a booth, pennies, and prizes, but now there is also a platform-game adventure attached to it. Apparently I could not leave the carnival game alone. The Java applet has separate classes for coins, enemies, ground pieces, and level loading. The main […]
I made a little game where the mouse moves a block and the other blocks are the problem. Some are good, some are bad, and the idea is to keep moving rather than run into the wrong one. It is a Java applet using AWT drawing and a mouse-motion listener. The player and moving obstacles […]
I made a Java version of Pong. A paddle, a ball, and somebody trying to keep the ball from getting past them: a pretty good starting point for figuring out an animated game. The applet uses AWT mouse and keyboard events for input, images for the paddles and ball, and an audio clip for the […]
I made another version of the arithmetic practice project. This one lets the calculation code work with a selected operation and difficulty level instead of treating every question the same way. The Calculate object remembers the operation and level. It generates an equation as a string, keeps the two operands, and has a separate method […]
Here is another little Java applet: guess a three-digit number. The computer picks the number and keeps asking until I get it right, then tells me how many guesses it took. This version uses Swing input and message dialogs, even though it is launched from an applet page. The program generates the number with Java’s […]
I made a little Java project for practicing arithmetic. The computer asks the question, checks the answer, and keeps track of the score. It is a lot more interesting to program the practice than to do a whole page of it myself. The calculation class keeps the two numbers, the computer’s answer, the user’s answer, […]