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Sun Pushes Java For Games Market

Posted by simoniker on from the doom-3-conversion-coming-soon dept.

mysterious_mark writes "Sun has a new initiative promoting Java for game development, according to a story at CNET News." Interestingly, the company is trying to convince game makers that you can make state-of-the-art titles in Java as easily as simpler browser or phone games: "Java also has been used to build a number of simple online PC games, such as card games, but the language can be used to create sophisticated graphics for A-list games, Melissinos said. 'Some people may have the misconception that Java can't do great, high-performance graphics, and that's absolutely not true.'"

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  1. It's a hardware problem by ObviousGuy · · Score: 1, Troll

    Java can be used to make these A-list games, but the hardware doesn't exist to run them at any reasonably acceptable speed.

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    1. Re:It's a hardware problem by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 0, Troll

      You could probably pull off turn based strategy games no problem, ones with slow moving or non-existent graphics. But really, Java simply CAN NOT compete with other languages. I mean really, if it could, you'd figure someone would have ported Doom or Quake by now.

  2. oh cool, now my games can be as slow, buggy and... by Desmoden · · Score: 0, Troll


    memory intesive as my app servers?

    ug, no thanks.