LWJGL Game Engine Tutorial (Java)

Question

I'm looking to create 3D games with LWJGL, but can't find any good tutorials for my skill level. Anybody have any suggestions?

Answer 1

Although it's for OpenGL in general, not LWJGL in specific, I found the nehe tutorials (http://nehe.gamedev.net/ - on the sidebar, under OpenGL Tutorials) extremely helpful. Although their language of choice is C, people have ported most of the tutorials to lots of other languages, including Java+LWJGL (though it's for an earlier version. but the difference is mostly that it uses DevIL, which isn't in the newer LWJGLs, for texture loading).

Be warned that learning this stuff is really, really hard.

Answer 2

I'd also throw in the author's page for Prototyp, an experimental 2D side-scroller that one guy made as a good learning example for making 2D lwjgl games. There's also Coke and Code's Space Invaders, an introductory Java 2d-game-programming tutorial, but that one writes the game first and then converts it to use lwjgl.