How to Write the Pac-Man Game with JavaFX

After the official announcement of JavaFX 1.0, I wrote a JavaFX program for the Pac-Man game. People were interested in the game. They either enjoyed playing or asked me for the details fo the JavaFX code. JavaFX expert Jim Weaver asked me to write some articles about the process of building the game. After a few weeks’ hard work, with Jim’s constructive ideas and great help in proofreading, I finished the articles. Now they are published on nsideRIA.com, an O’Reilly’s web site, as featured articles. There will be 5 articles in total and they will run through the coming 5 weeks.

In each of the articles, there are web start links that you can click to start a JavaFX program to see how it works. If you follow the 5 articles, you will find out how the game is written bit by bit. I hope the articles can help people who want to learn JavaFX or want to develop games in JavaFX. Thanks Jim for making these articles possible.

Here are the links for the articles:

May 14, 2009:
Writing the Pac-Man Game in JavaFX - Part 1
May 21, 2009:
Writing the Pac-Man Game in JavaFX - Part 2
May 28, 2009:
Writing the Pac-Man Game in JavaFX - Part 3
June 4, 2009:
Writing the Pac-Man Game in JavaFX - Part 4
June 11, 2009:
Writing the Pac-Man Game in JavaFX - Part 5