Projects

LWJGL

The Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL) is a solution aimed directly at professional and amateur Java programmers alike to enable commercial quality games to be written in Java. LWJGL provides developers access to high performance crossplatform libraries such as OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) and ... [More] OpenAL (Open Audio Library) allowing for state of the art 3D games and 3D sound. Additionally LWJGL provides access to controllers such as Gamepads, Steering wheel and Joysticks. All in a simple and straight forward API. [Less]

Thousand Parsec

claimed by KDE

Thousand Parsec is not only a game by itself, it is also a framework for creating a similar group of turn-based space empire building games, which are often called 4X games, from the main phases found in them: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate. Some examples of games which Thousand Parsec ... [More] draws ideas from are Stars!, VGA Planets, Reach for the Stars, Master of Orion and Galactic Civilizations. The idea is that a protocol is specified which defines how game servers and game clients communicate with each other. Protocol also specifies which objects are available for custom games or rulesets, which can have different rules of gamplay. Any client should be able to connect with any server and player should be able to play any game with it. [Less]

JInput

The JInput Project hosts an implementation of an API for game controller discovery and polled input.

Xith3D

The Xith3d project consists of powerful middleware consisting of a scenegraph and an extensible renderer. The goal is to create a lean and performative scenegraph and renderer while at the same time allowing for extensions and enchancements to all stages of the rendering pipeline. You can think of ... [More] it as a 3D engine. It allows to create games, or any application requiring a 3D visualization. It's versatile, usable with JOGL or LWJGL, embeddable in AWT, Swing, SWT (Eclipse). It has support for physics engine (JOODE), and many development facilities. It's fast and easy-to-use. [Less]

Ardor3D

Ardor3D is a professionally oriented, Java based 3D graphics engine.

jClassicRPG

The fully opensource project contains an evolving Role Playing Game framework and game implementations. It is written fully in Java in the tradition of old school RPGs like Wizardry 7 and EOB. Features are OpenGL, AI, scripting, turn based combat, commanding a group of characters and more.

Jajuk

Jajuk is software that organizes and plays music. It is a fully-featured application geared towards advanced users with large or scattered music collections.

MD5 Reader 2

MD5 Reader 2 is an extension for jMonkey Engine to load 3D animated models from MD5 format (Doom 3 format). Current active contributors are: ender_saka (Marco Frisan, the project founder), Duodecimo Fernandes and gathers (Öyvind Johannessen). The project was based on the original code from ... [More] ChaosDeathFish (Gareth Jenkins-Jones). While the original code is still maintained, we are moving to a rewrite. [Less]

Moonlight|3D

Moonlight|3D is a free modern, flexible and extensible modelling and animation tool developed by a small but dedicated team. The goal is to provide a tool that is capable of turning even the most advanced and challenging projects of artists and technical artists into reality. We understand that ... [More] this project is by its very nature a huge undertaking. We have chosen to make clean design, good usability and solid implementation of features our highest priority goals and we have already successfully, albeit slowly, pursued that road for several years. In order to speed up the progress of our development efforts we open up the project to the general public and we hope to attract the support of many developers and users, bringing the project forward faster. [Less]

JaNaG - Java Name Generator

JaNaG (Java Name Generator) is a random name generator for role-games, authors, and the like. It is based on a name fragment database that creates relatively reasonably sounding names from different cultures/influences (e.g. elves, orcs, pseudo-old-German, etc.). It has been developed as ... [More] "Namegenerator", but due to naming conflicts has been renamed to JaNaG. It can run as applet, GUI appliance, command line tool, or on a server-client basis. Namegenerator runs stable, but could need expansion in several directions. Currently the tool is localized for German and English. [Less]