Projects tagged ‘game’ and ‘java’

jMonkeyEngine provides a high performance, scenegraph based rendering and physics system.

L2J is a server that emulates a Lineage II (a MMORPG) server. Players can play on a L2J server using the original Lineage II client. It was built from scratch in Java.

Lineage 2(c) server emulator written in mostly java.

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 ... [More] developers access to high performance crossplatform libraries such as OpenGL (Open Graphics Library) and 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]

The FreeCol team aims to create an Open Source version of Colonization (released under the GPL). It's a turn based strategy game similar to Civilization.

Arianne is a multiplayer online games framework and engine to develop turn based and real time games. It provides a simple way of creating games on a portable and robust server architecture. The ... [More] server is coded in Java and uses Python for your game description, provides a MySQL backend and uses a TCP transport channel to communicate with dozens of players. [Less]

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 ... [More] allowing for extensions and enchancements to all stages of the rendering pipeline. You can think of 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]

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

Marauroa is Arianne's Multiplayer Online Engine Server, that you can use to build you own online games using Marauroa as a Content Management system. Marauroa is completly written in Java using a ... [More] multithreaded server architecture with a TCP oriented network protocol, a mySQL based persistence engine and a flexible game system based on open systems totally expandible and modifiable by developers and that is able to run scripts on Python for the game's rules. Marauroa is based on a philosophy we call Action/Perception, on each turn a perception is sent to clients explaining them what they percieve and clients can ask server to do any action in their names using actions. Marauroa is totally game agnostic and makes very little assumptions about what are you trying to do. [Less]

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 ... [More] in them: eXplore, eXpand, eXploit and eXterminate. Some examples of games which Thousand Parsec 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]