Snake Game with JavaFX FXGL in Three Pair-Programming Sessions
Start with an idea for a game, bring it to life in a prototype, modify the application to run on Raspberry Pi and on mobile device.

Frank Delporte is Java Champion and Senior Technical Writer at Azul. He maintains Foojay, Pi4J, and the JavaFX projects Lottie4J, Sheetmusic4J, MelodyMatrix.
Frank Delporte is a Java Champion, Java Developer, Senior Technical Writer at Azul, Blogger, Author of "Java Programming for Raspberry Pi - A Hands-On Guide to Electronics and IoT Projects", and Open-Source Contributor for Pi4J, Lottie4J, Sheetmusic4J and MelodyMatrix. Frank writes and talks about Java in business production environments, but also in places people don’t always expect it, on the Raspberry Pi, driving GPIO pins, rendering JavaFX UIs, and running on RISC-V single-board computers.
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Start with an idea for a game, bring it to life in a prototype, modify the application to run on Raspberry Pi and on mobile device.

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FXGL is a JavaFX Game Library Engine for Java and Kotlin, created by Almas Baimagambetov. Here is everything you need to get started!

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