Examples

Finished projects to play with, read and take apart. Almost all of them run right here in the browser: open one, press ▶, then change something and see what happens. Each page has the whole source code.

Start here

Small projects that use one or two ideas from the tutorials.

Example	What it shows
Cat	A sprite that walks, bounces off the edges and leaves stamps behind
Glide	Sprites sliding to a new place with glide()
Quiz	Asking questions with ask() and reacting to the answers
Clock	Reading the time of your computer
Volume	Turning sounds up and down
Random Dot	Drawing with a timer and random positions
Timed Dot	Several timers running at different speeds
Rainbow Vine	Following the mouse

Games

Whole games, built like the later tutorials: several sprite classes, a score, and sometimes several screens.

Example	What it shows
Coin Collector	Walking, jumping and collecting, with built-in pictures only
Cat Platformer	A platformer with the Scratch for Java cat, enemies and a goal
Donut IO	Switching between stages, and many sprites at once
Robot	A stage and a sprite class of their own, with hitboxes shown
Sensing	Touching the mouse pointer, and hitboxes of your own

Going further

Projects that use more of Java or more of the library: the pen, text, vectors, shaders and Tiled maps.

Example	What it shows
Timer	Every method of the timer side by side
Pipes	Drawing with many pens at once
UI	Stretching pictures for panels and bars, and a custom mouse pointer
Shakespeare	An evolutionary algorithm that writes a line of Shakespeare
Smart Rocket	Rockets that learn to reach a target, with Vector2 and Random
Shader	Small graphics programs that change how things are drawn
Stress Test	How many sprites can your computer show at once?
Tiled	Levels drawn in the Tiled map editor (only on your own computer)