Top 18 Java Gamedev Projects

• libGDX

  61 22,661 8.8 Java

  Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework

  

Project mention: Show HN: Integer Map Data Structure | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-24

Neat, thank you! I'd love to see how it compares to the libgdx IntMap[0].

[0] https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/blob/master/gdx/src/com/bad...

• FXGL

  24 4,149 9.0 Java

  Java / JavaFX / Kotlin Game Library (Engine)

Project mention: FLaNK 04 March 2024 | dev.to | 2024-03-04

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• Terasology

  18 3,618 8.7 Java

  Terasology - open source voxel world

  

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

Terasology - Minecraft-inspired voxel game. Java

• gdx-ai

  6 1,159 0.0 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

  5 758 0.0 Java

  A continuation of the popular Artemis ECS framework

• Mini2Dx

  0 502 4.0 Java

  A high-level cross-platform 2D game development API

  

• dominion-ecs-java

  13 276 7.1 Java

  Insanely fast ECS (Entity Component System) for Java

  

Project mention: Dominion ECS - the Release Candidate is out | /r/java | 2023-05-21

You are right, I will add more info about the architecture! About which operations perform better you can already relying on the available benchmarks

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Open-Realms-of-Stars

  35 115 9.7 Java

  4X Strategy game

Project mention: Space 4x game? | /r/4Xgaming | 2023-10-26

OROS is available in Github or Itchio. I have also youtube channel if you are interested to see videos first: Youtube link

• PolyWorld

  1 78 3.8 Java

  A world generator that is based on Voronoi diagrams

  

• VTerminal

  5 75 7.5 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.

• pixel-community

  4 24 4.6 Java

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

• Cities

  1 11 0.0 Java

  Procedural city & road placement

  

• Battleship3D

  1 6 5.9 Java

  Classic terminal Battleship with a 3D twist!

Project mention: A Terminal Game of Battleship with a 3rd Dimension | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-05

• MetalRenegades

  1 6 3.7 Java

  A harsh western world with a robotic twist.

  

• garnet

  2 3 7.9 Java

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

Project mention: Garnet - A simple Java / LWJGL based framework for games. | /r/javagamedev | 2023-07-02

The main Garnet project is the core engine, with all the basics of a game engine: Timed rendering and logic loop, 2D sprite and image support, primitive drawing, font and paragraph drawing, input and sound playback. https://github.com/nickd3000/garnet

• VController

  1 2 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.

Project mention: VController - A JInput Helper Library | /r/gamedev | 2023-10-15

Automatic polling of controller input events VIA ControllerPoller.

• garnettoolkit

  1 0 6.2 Java

  Game scene, state and entity systems in Java.

Project mention: Garnet - A simple Java / LWJGL based framework for games. | /r/javagamedev | 2023-07-02

Garnet toolkit contains higher level game related features and does not have any dependencies on garnet (and vice-versa) meaning if you made a game using the toolkit you could change the engine later and keep the toolkit code. The main features here are: Scene management, Entity/component system, object context management, simple collision detection, simple particles and other utilities. https://github.com/nickd3000/garnettoolkit

• VTerminalPaletteEditor

  2 0 0.0 Java

  A standalone GUI application for creating and editing VTerminal palettes.

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• OSS Game Engines are increasing their stars on GitHub due to Unity's missteps
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Sep 2023
• Garnet - A simple Java / LWJGL based framework for games.
  4 projects | /r/javagamedev | 2 Jul 2023
• com.almasb.fxgl.all module not found
  1 project | /r/javahelp | 21 Apr 2023
• I can't think about another video game using Java. I mean, there WILL be more but i haven't saw them.
  13 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 1 Jan 2023
• JVM port of randrew's layout - a simple/fast stacking box layout library for user interfaces.
  4 projects | /r/java | 10 Sep 2022
• Would JavaFX be a good option for making a management game?
  1 project | /r/JavaFX | 13 Jun 2022
• Kotlin equivalent to pygame?
  1 project | /r/Kotlin | 26 Apr 2022
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