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Computer Games: Parallax Scrolling & Sprites

April 8, 2008 on 1:33 pm | Tags: courses, Development, Games, Java, Teaching | In Development, Games, General, Java | No Comments

Currently I’m preparing for giving my talk next Friday in the computer games lesson on multimedia issues in games. To underline my words and slides with some code I also coded some easy little Java program visualizing sprite animation and some star field background. The coding was great fun – the third scrolling shooter I coded … always a pleasure

However there is one thing I found out while coding: Ready to use sprite animation image stripes are hard to get. There is a little tool called simple explosion maker” that came handy and the SpriteLib of Flying Yogi is rather cool, but I miss the great deal of online creative commons content. Perhaps one could point me there

Related links:

• Simple explosion maker – A simple tool for rendering explosions.
• SpriteLib – GPL-ed sprites of Flying Yogi