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9.1 | 9.0 | |
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Java | Java | |
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | MIT License |
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jMonkeyEngine
- Not only Unity...
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Unity's Licensing Changes: Discover Stride a Community-Driven Open-Source Engine
> Unfortunately, this is yet another open source game engine with too small a user base.
I wonder why some engines are seemingly destined for success and others... aren't.
Godot got really big, despite a somewhat similar feature set: https://godotengine.org/ (really nice 2D support, 3D rendering was worse until version 4, GDScript has both a nice iteration speed but also has gotten some criticism, while C# was a second class citizen in the earlier iterations)
Stride is really nice and seemed like it should have been the Unity replacement that people would look at, if it had gotten more attention and a community would have formed around it, like Godot's.
There's also NeoAxis which is way more Windows centric, but still seems to be getting updates and is comparatively easy to use, yet similarly never got popular: https://www.neoaxis.com/
Weirder yet, Java doesn't really have that many game engines out there, at least the likes of Unity/NeoAxis/Stride that have nice editors, despite the language being pretty nice. The closest I can think of is jMonkeyEngine which I donated some money in the past to, which is pretty usable but similarly niche: https://jmonkeyengine.org/
I occasionally watch videos on the Gamefromscratch YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@gamefromscratch/videos) and it surprises me that there are so many engines out there, but very few actually are in the public eye. If you don't go out of your way to look for other options, you will most likely only have heard of Unity and Unreal (or maybe also Godot in recent years). I wonder why that is.
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[Hobby] Need help implement Continuous Collision Detection in a classic top-down multiplayer space shooter
This project develops a cross-platform Subspace client and server written in Java. It was developed from scratch on the idea of extensibility and modularity. The server is based on modules/frameworks highly optimized for scaled, networked, grid-based, infinite world physics. The client is based on the JMonkeyEngine, a minimalistic modern developer friendly, open source, game engine
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Godot 4.0 Stable
> Godot is one of those pinnacle FOSS projects that just totally impresses me, especially given the state its in now, with 4.0.
It is definitely one of the success stories, at least so far.
For example, there are projects like jMonkeyEngine (a game engine in Java, on top of LWJGL) that don't get as much attention and their movement forwards is way slower: https://jmonkeyengine.org/
There's also Stride 3D, which is a bit closer to Unity I'd say, which is still a really nice project, but is also limited in how much development can be done: https://www.stride3d.net/
Regardless, I wish all of those projects success and would still be glad if Godot could be one of the champions of open source game engines, perhaps as a viable and easy to use alternative to something like Unity for those who want that sort of thing, even in the professional development space eventually!
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I can't think about another video game using Java. I mean, there WILL be more but i haven't saw them.
It is, or at least was, efficient. Java has a great game engine called https://jmonkeyengine.org/ that at the time could compete with Unity, not sure the status now. And LWJGL, the lower layer for ooengl, was quite nice to use and it is efficient to go that low level if you plan to do a game that does not fit the stereotypes in such game engines, as you will find yourself fighting the engine more than the actual game.
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Terraria Clone With Java?
This seems interesting https://jmonkeyengine.org , how would I get started?
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interested in learning lisp, (specifically for games, but also for everything else including tui and gui applications for linux. currently have next to no programming knowledge, can i get forwarded some resources and some tips on what exactly i should do? any videos i should watch?
Java: Jmonkeyengine works with Armed Bear Common Lisp, but it requires you to write a lot of Java as "glue" because of the engine's structure. Still, the engine and ABCL are solid and you can get it if you give it time.
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game engines for 2D games in java?
I remember using https://jmonkeyengine.org some while ago
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What's the status of game dev and GC pauses in Java since JDK 16?
According to its Github repository, JMonkeyEngine is almost entirely written in Java.
FXGL
- FLaNK 04 March 2024
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Excited for 2023!
Java seems to have gained a second wind in recent years, and the innovation in this ecosystem is speeding up. Java 20 and LTS release 21 are expected to happen this year. RIFE2, an actively-developed pure-Java web framework, has recently caught my attention. Like Javalin, it appears to be built on top of the successful Jetty server. I also started exploring FXGL for building games with Java. Lastly, as concerns over COVID-19 variants wane I expect an increase in Java developers participating in community events. For example, Chicago finally had its first in-person JConf event and the Chicago Java User Group (CJUG) is easing back into in-person events.
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Simple 2D graphics framework for C#/Java
Have you checked FXGL? It’s built on top of JavaFX.
Or a framework built on JavaFX: FXGL
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Game Making Libraries + Engines in Java 2022
I can highly recommend FXGL https://github.com/AlmasB/FXGL to get started building simpler 2d games before looking into 3d engines which can be daunting unless that’s what you are in for. Nice and easy api’s with everything you need as well as lots of example games to learn from.
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Good framework for making 2d games
Either libGDX (https://libgdx.com) or FXGL (http://almasb.github.io/FXGL/) . libGDX is more complicated and more powerful, FGXL is better suited for simpler games and so easier for beginners, but recently it's development is quite active and more and more features are available.
- Learn to build a Roguelike game in Scala
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Deploy FXGL to the web?
Is there any way to deploy applications made with FXGL to the web? I suspect no - not yet, anyway - but I'm curious if anyone has tried this.
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What are some free programs for making small games?
Since your asking in r/javahelp , I believe you want to make a game in Java. The easiest way is to use a game engine and I can really recommend FXGL. You can find it here: https://github.com/AlmasB/FXGL together with information about how to use this library and a lot of example projects (from simple to advanced).
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How do I implement and structure a tool that draws directed graphs?
Then you need a visualization engine. You could look at FxGL, which is versatile: https://github.com/AlmasB/FXGLI think the particule demo is quite close to what a graph viz would need: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhr1b4061os
What are some alternatives?
libGDX - Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
KorGE - KorGE Game Engine. Multiplatform Kotlin Game Engine
LWJGL - LWJGL is a Java library that enables cross-platform access to popular native APIs useful in the development of graphics (OpenGL, Vulkan, bgfx), audio (OpenAL, Opus), parallel computing (OpenCL, CUDA) and XR (OpenVR, LibOVR, OpenXR) applications.
ktx - Kotlin extensions for the libGDX game framework
Zircon - Zircon is an extensible and user-friendly, multiplatform tile engine.
GreenLightning - High performance microservice runtime
Litiengine - LITIENGINE 🕹 The pure 2D java game engine.
FriceEngine - :video_game: JVM game engine based on Swing/JavaFX.
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine