Hi all,
I built a programming environment for children and beginning programmers a few years ago and have
been working on it here and there since then. It occurred to me that some of you may find it
useful for game prototyping.
http://judo.sourceforge.net/
It is based on Java, except writing programs with graphics and user input is very easy. All you
have to do is write a "void main()" function and put all your graphics and user input code right
in there, like this:
void main () {
int width = getDrawingWidth() / 4;
int height = getDrawingHeight() / 8;
setColor(red);
fillRectangle(100, 100, width, height);
setColor(purple);
drawOval(200, 200, width, height);
}
You click on the run button, and your program pops open in a new window.
You can do keyboard I/O as well as respond to key press and mouse events. If you download it,
check out the program "Look Out" that you can get from the File menu -> Open Program. Its based
on Kaboom. There are a bunch of samples in that Open Program dialog as well as the Open Sample
Program dialog. And there is a function reference and tutorials under the help menu.
-Tom
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