I don't know of any books, but I wrote a 2d game in Java which I lifted from download from the Java Boutique website. At least in 2001 there were tons of games and you could download the source code.

Java is a versatile language that can be used to create a wide range of applications. Ankira, for example, is developing a new Metroid 2D game in Java.

PhiLho and corgrath provide Java code examples illustrating conversion of a background color to a transparent background for an image in the StackOverflow thread How to make a color transparent in ...

Unity, the popular "build once, deploy anywhere" 3D game engine, is going 2D. At the company's UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things: official ...