The Super Monkey Ball

The Super Monkey Ball series moves from puzzler to platformer with Sega and Traveler’s Tales Super Monkey Ball Adventure for the PS2. While the monkeys are still zany and fun and puzzles are still in abundance, the game adds new features and abilities while tying the whole thing together with a fun, interesting story.

Creating 2D Action Games with the Game API

GameCanvas is a Canvas with additional capabilities; it provides methods for immediate painting and for examining the state of the device keys. These new methods make it possible to enclose all of a game's functionality in a single loop, under control of a single thread. To see why this is attractive, think about how you would implement a typical game using Canvas: