Zircon
Zircon is an extensible and user-friendly, multiplatform tile engine. (by Hexworks)
ktx
Kotlin extensions for the libGDX game framework (by libktx)
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| Zircon | ktx | |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 6 | |
| 740 | 1,316 | |
| 0.1% | 1.0% | |
| 8.2 | 5.8 | |
| 3 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Kotlin | Kotlin | |
| Apache License 2.0 | Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Zircon
Posts with mentions or reviews of Zircon.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
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Java swing turn based roguelike game loop advice
I'd recommend you use Zircon, it's THE roguelike rendering library for Kotlin/JVM. The developer is/was active on the discord too. Zircon website
- Guides for Kotlin scripting use case
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game engines for 2D games in java?
Hope you're not getting down voted because of Kotlin. Even the example on their page is in Java. https://github.com/Hexworks/zircon
- Textual in Clojure?
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New Zircon Release is out: 2021.1.0-RELEASE
There is another improvement that helps with extensibility: now it is possible to create custom tileset loaders. There is already a WIP loader that uses Tiled's format.
One important change that was a blocker for some other things was the reliance on the global Zircon object that also held some state. With #404 completed now there is no global state, and it is also possible to have TileGrid and / or Renderer objects without having an Application that continuously renders content.
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Learn to build a Roguelike game in Scala
But if you specifically want to build a roguelike and you're ok with Java, Zircon looks amazing! I have not tried it but just look at those screenshots!
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7drl 2021 Collaborations Thread
Hi all! If any of you want to use a Hexworks project for the 7DRL (Zircon or Amethyst) feel free to jump on our Discord Server where you can get help with those and talk with other 7DRLers!
ktx
Posts with mentions or reviews of ktx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-13.
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LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
I liked working with it (the library) but learned I hate working with Lua just slightly less than I hate working with JS. At least in JS we now have TS and things like Elm.
I ended up moving to https://github.com/libktx/ktx for that little project.
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🧸 Tiny : my Kotlin Multiplatform 2D Game engine
I highly, highly recommend using libKTX when using Kotlin with libGDX
- Is there a cross platform 2d graphics library with a simple API like p5
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C++, Java, or Kotlin for a game engine?
Not sure if it's mentioned already but I'd strongly recommend LibKTX and Kotlin instead: https://libktx.github.io/
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Asset Manager 1.0 Release: Download, index & search your game assets from itch.io and Humble Bundle
so kotlin is the preferred language for android development. It's fully interoperable with java and is usually touted as a better less boiler-platey java alternative. The language itself is very nice, with a lot of modern features and really nice syntax. It also has a really cool multiplatform system and a nice ecosystem for crossplatform libraries making it really nice for gamedev where you want to target all platforms. Some cool kotlin gamedev libs to check out if you're interested is https://korge.org/, https://littlekt.com/ and https://github.com/libktx/ktx (really nice kotlin bindings for working with libgdx which is a really mature crossplatform java game engine.
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Game Dev
There is a Kotlin extension project for Libgdx, KTX. Its a good start as a beginner, there are lots of good tutorials for libgdx. Its good you limit your scope to top down games like Pokemon or Zelda.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Zircon and ktx you can also consider the following projects:
KorGE - KorGE Game Engine. Multiplatform Kotlin Game Engine
FXGL - Java / JavaFX / Kotlin Game Library (Engine)
AdventKT - A Kotlin-based DSL for text adventures, with a partial replica of the classic Colossal Cave as an example.
FriceEngine - :video_game: JVM game engine based on Swing/JavaFX.
thelema-engine - Thelema - 3D graphics engine, written in Kotlin. Based on sources of libGDX.
intellij-rainbow-brackets - 🌈Rainbow Brackets for IntelliJ based IDEs/Android Studio/HUAWEI DevEco Studio/Fleet
kotlin-obd-api - :blue_car: A Kotlin OBD-II API for reading engine data