GameGrid: Game programming with Java

An important part of our learning environment are our complete and runnable examples, which can be used as a guideline for your own game ideas. All examples are presented in the same layout, with a brief description, its program code and a short explanation of the code. On top of the code two links are shown. By clicking on Run this example the example will be started via webstart. Using the link Edit this example in the Online-Editor the program code is loaded into the Online-Editor and there it can be edited, compiled ane executed.

Each picture used in our examples as an actor or background are saved on our webserver and can be used in your own games. By adding the path of the picture "sprites/name.gif" to your program code, the sprite is automatically added to your application.

More pictures can be found at Pictures and Sounds. They can either be downloaded or directly included into your game.

If you want to use your own sprites you have to copy them into your local folder <userhome>/gamegrid/sprites . <userhome> is usually the home-directroy of the user (Widows XP: C:/Documents and Settings/Username/ - Windows 7 or Mac: "User/Username"). Our Online-Editor automatically uses all the pictures in the local directory when executing the program or building the self-executable jar-file. Each jar-file can be downloaded to your local machine by clicking on links at The following data can be saved locally inside the message window. This allows the user to run the program locally without having to start the Onlien-Editor.

Sprites can also be included into your program by adding a URL, e.g. super("http://www.familie-siegert.de/smiley.gif"). More detailed instructions can be found at Pictures and Sounds/Sprites from the net.