Java Game Engine

Open-source Java projects categorized as Game Engine

Top 21 Java Game Engine Projects

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  1. libGDX

    Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework

    Project mention: How to Use the Foreign Function API in Java 22 to Call C Libraries | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-08
  2. Nutrient

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  3. Terasology

    Terasology - open source voxel world

    Project mention: Lessons from Open-Source Game Projects | dev.to | 2024-04-10

    Terasology - Minecraft-inspired voxel game. Java

  4. AndEngine

    Free Android 2D OpenGL Game Engine

  5. mage

    XMage - Magic Another Game Engine (by magefree)

  6. jbox2d

    a 2d Java physics engine, native java port of the C++ physics engines Box2D and LiquidFun

  7. LITIENGINE

    LITIENGINE 🕹 The pure 2D java game engine.

  8. LGame

    A cross-platform Java game Engine (Framework) , support JavaFX / Android / IOS / HTML5 / Linux / MAC / Windows

  9. CodeRabbit

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  10. dominion-ecs-java

    Insanely fast ECS (Entity Component System) for Java

  11. playn

    Legacy 1.x version of PlayN library.

  12. voodoo2d

    👹 2D Java Game Engine built in OpenGL

  13. VTerminal

    A new Look-and-Feel (LaF) for Java, which allows for a grid-based display of Unicode characters with custom fore/background colors, font sizes, and pseudo-shaders. Originally designed for developing Roguelike/lite games.

  14. jake2

    Quake 2 java/kotlin port

  15. terminal-recall

    Engine remake for Terminal Velocity and Fury3

  16. Azurite

    Azurite Game Engine is a 2D Java game engine built on top of LWJGL. (by azurite-engine)

  17. pixel-community

    High performance and modular Java/Kotlin 2D Game Framework.

  18. litiengine-gurk-nukem

    A 2-bit platforming shooter made with LITIENGINE

  19. Koin3D

    Koin3D, a java port of Coin3D with LWJGL

  20. Scenario4j

    A game engine with scene graph using OpenGL 3.3 core profile with LWJGL

  21. garnet

    A free Java based 2D game engine built on LWJGL. (by nickd3000)

  22. TXEngine

    TXEngine is a modular and configurable text-based game engine. Write entire text-based games without writing a single line of code!

  23. chartboost-android-plugin-godot-3.3.2

    Chartboost Ads (SDK v8.2.0) Android Plugin For Godot Engine v3.3.2.

  24. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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  • Home to Anything JavaFX Related

    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Aug 2024
  • OSS Game Engines are increasing their stars on GitHub due to Unity's missteps

    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Sep 2023
  • Unity's Licensing Changes: Discover Stride a Community-Driven Open-Source Engine

    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Sep 2023
  • Garnet - A simple Java / LWJGL based framework for games.

    4 projects | /r/javagamedev | 2 Jul 2023
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    1 project | /r/Terasology | 1 May 2023
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  • What old video games do still hold up?

    6 projects | /r/AskReddit | 26 Jan 2023
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Game Engine projects in Java? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 libGDX 23,729
2 Terasology 3,703
3 AndEngine 3,182
4 mage 1,962
5 jbox2d 1,118
6 LITIENGINE 756
7 LGame 652
8 dominion-ecs-java 322
9 playn 195
10 voodoo2d 131
11 VTerminal 82
12 jake2 68
13 terminal-recall 61
14 Azurite 42
15 pixel-community 27
16 litiengine-gurk-nukem 23
17 Koin3D 16
18 Scenario4j 15
19 garnet 4
20 TXEngine 4
21 chartboost-android-plugin-godot-3.3.2 4

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