Turn on lcd backlight by button, Arduino

This is post about Arduino and how to turn on the backlight of the lcd display by pressing a button and how to make that the display backlight will turn off with delay.

Visual Random Numbers

I was wondering if randomly generated numbers with java class Random are generated evenly or any numbers are thrown more often than another or what is going on there . So, I made a program that generates random numbers, from 0 to max number that you set, and makes graph from this numbers.

Here is the image of graph window (one square represents one number):

Helicopter Battle game

I finaly took time to finish the game for animation tutorial that I want to do.  I named it Helicopter battle and the goal is to destroy as many enemy helicopters as you can with the ammo that you have on the helicopter.

Here is the screenshot of the game.

At the moment the tutorial article is not yet written, but you can download the game and its java source code on Animation tutorial – Helicopter Bettle.

Joystick in Java with JInput

I got Logitech Double Action gamepad from a friend and I wondered how can I use it in Java and I come acrose JInput. Then I made a test program, something like what you can find in Windows. You can download this program and its source code at the bottom of this post.

How to use JInput?

Game for animation tutorial

Just wanted to show a picture of the game called Helicopter Battle that I will make for animation tutorial.

First blog post

So this is my first blog post ever. The theme of this blog will be about games, mostly about games and stuff that I made.

My english isn’t good so posts on blog will contain mistakes. I hope that I will improve it with writing this blog.

My first game that I made was Space Shooter. You can get it on java game tutorial website here. Watch the video of the game below.

The website that I metioned above was made by me. It contains a basic java 2d game tutorials and some useful links about making games.

This is it for the first post.