Is there anything like PICO-8 for Java?

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  • Litiengine

    LITIENGINE 🕹 The pure 2D java game engine.

  • From a quick search this is the main java engine i found: Litirngine

  • LWJGL

    LWJGL is a Java library that enables cross-platform access to popular native APIs useful in the development of graphics (OpenGL, Vulkan, bgfx), audio (OpenAL, Opus), parallel computing (OpenCL, CUDA) and XR (OpenVR, LibOVR, OpenXR) applications.

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  • libGDX

    Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework

  • Many newer Java games on Steam use libGDX. Older games used Slick2d. Both APIs mimic Java2D, the standard library API, which itself is good enough when you are starting out.

  • slick2d-maven

    Maven distribution of the Slick2D Gava game development library

  • Many newer Java games on Steam use libGDX. Older games used Slick2d. Both APIs mimic Java2D, the standard library API, which itself is good enough when you are starting out.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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