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Posted by Gabriel E
Gabriel E
8,916 Points

Is IntelliJ IDEA a good IDE for game dev?

Hi all, I just finished work on my new game engine (haven't named it yet :) ) and then I kind of needed a game idea to go with it!! I've pretty much laid out the plan. I have 2 questions. 1) Is IntelliJ IDEA good for java games. (with/without gaming library. I am, of course, using a jdk) 2) What is the best way to setup up a camera and start spawning terrain platform? The second might be REALLY complex, but is there any good way in java to set up a camera perspective? I really love working in my Unity Engine with perspectives, but since I coded my own I'd like to work in there, for practice mainly. Anyway if you respond to this I would seriously appreciate it!! Thanks,

Gabriel

Gabriel E
Gabriel E
8,916 Points

Awesome, thx. Yes the engine doesn't have a complete setup. It's basically got all of it's files compiled so I just need to add one file per game, with all the gaming libraries pre-loaded. I'll check out that link thx!

1 Answer

Shane Robinson
Shane Robinson
7,324 Points

You've created a full game engine? That is rather impressive. Generally, the game engine would contain the code for a scene builder and all that - although, I have no idea how myself. For all your game development needs, I'd go check out https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/wiki/index , if you don't find what you need in the wiki (make sure you triple check first) then go ahead and ask them.