Java keyboard handling

Unfortunately, this is likely to be a problem with the hardware; a lot of modern keyboards won't let you press more than three keys at once. I have had several big business games that suffered from the same thing, so I don't think there is a software solution :(.

Been quite a long time since I used Java2D (for games)... but the problem might be that you're doing too much work in the AWT-dispatch thread.

Try something like this:

boolean[] keysDown = new boolean[256]; // Might need a bigger array, to prevent NullPointerExceptionspublic void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {  keysDown[e.getKeyCode()] = true;  // Nothing else here!}public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {  keysDown[e.getKeyCode()] = false;  // Nothing else here!}

Now in your game loop, you'd have something like this:

if (keysDown[KEY_STRAFE_LEFT]) {   player.strafeLeft();}

To the person above, thank you for the suggestion but that's already what I'm doing.

To the person above that, I've actually already built a similar game in a dos version of C++. There was a little bit of a problem with handling so many key presses but the game was still playable. Given that flucuation I'm not sure it would be a problem with the hardware, especially seeing as I've tried it on several different computers with the exact same results. I'm more inclined to think that the code that java uses to get the key presses wasn't made to handle so many. Anyway, I think in the end I'm just going to have to make it a network multiplayer game. Thanks for your help anyway.