Top 16 Java Gamedev Projects

libGDX

1 62 24,302 9.3 Java

Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
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Terasology

2 18 3,751 4.4 Java

Terasology - open source voxel world
gdx-ai

3 6 1,271 5.3 Java

Artificial Intelligence framework for games based on libGDX or not. Features: Steering Behaviors, Formation Motion, Pathfinding, Behavior Trees and Finite State Machines
artemis-odb

4 5 811 0.0 Java

A continuation of the popular Artemis ECS framework
Mini2Dx

5 0 506 4.0 Java

A high-level cross-platform 2D game development API
dominion-ecs-java

6 13 334 7.1 Java

Insanely fast ECS (Entity Component System) for Java
Open-Realms-of-Stars

7 35 149 8.8 Java

4X Strategy game
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VTerminal

8 5 87 8.4 Java

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.
PolyWorld

9 1 84 3.8 Java

A world generator that is based on Voronoi diagrams
pixel-community

10 4 28 7.4 Java

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

11 1 12 0.0 Java

Procedural city & road placement
MetalRenegades

12 1 6 3.7 Java

A harsh western world with a robotic twist.
Battleship3D

13 1 6 5.9 Java

Classic terminal Battleship with a 3D twist!
garnet

14 2 5 8.6 Java

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

15 1 3 7.9 Java

A helper library for JInput which makes it easy to automatically poll for controller input, connection, and disconnection events and notify listeners when they occur.
VTerminalPaletteEditor

16 2 0 5.1 Java

A standalone GUI application for creating and editing VTerminal palettes.
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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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Index

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

#	Project	Stars
1	libGDX	24,302
2	Terasology	3,751
3	gdx-ai	1,271
4	artemis-odb	811
5	Mini2Dx	506
6	dominion-ecs-java	334
7	Open-Realms-of-Stars	149
8	VTerminal	87
9	PolyWorld	84
10	pixel-community	28
11	Cities	12
12	MetalRenegades	6
13	Battleship3D	6
14	garnet	5
15	VController	3
16	VTerminalPaletteEditor	0