What are some free programs for making small games?

• FXGL

  24 4,164 9.0 Java

  Java / JavaFX / Kotlin Game Library (Engine)

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).

• 2DTacticalRPG

  46 25 0.0 Java

  Discontinued A re-structuring of previous 2D game attempts.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• javafx-maven-plugin

  14 356 0.0 Java

  Maven plugin to run JavaFX 11+ applications

  

• jMonkeyEngine

  38 3,690 9.1 Java

  A complete 3-D game development suite written in Java.

  

I hear good things about jmonkey: https://jmonkeyengine.org/

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