Originally Posted by
Velocity
keep us posted lad, also, as Jason suggested, grab yourself a copy of libgdx (or if you want to reinvent the wood of the wheel too, grab lwjgl) because if you use opengl instead you can
1) get the gpu to do stuff instead of the cpu
2) explore the magic opengl offers and do sick shaders
3) deploy to android!!
4) deploy to webgl!!!
5) deploy to Syria!!!
so yeah honestly if you want to get that sick learning experience, do opengl (libgdx makes this a breeze as it wraps around the native calls and adds an api for e.g. image loading, rendering, shaders... etc)
keep us posted don't let it die brother
also consider opening a beta, it'll keep you more motivated to let people hop on a simple 5$/mo server and walk around. create a launcher in Java that downloads the latest shit and send me a copy so i can come poke holes in the wall with u