Projects

jMonkey Engine

What is jMonkeyEngine? jMonkeyEngine is a game engine made for developers who want to create 3D games following modern technology standards. The framework is programmed entirely in Java aimed at wide accessibility and quick deployment to desktop, web, and mobile platforms. Who is jMonkeyEngine ... [More] for? jMonkeyEngine is not a visual “RPG Maker” or a drag-and-drop “FPS mod”. If you are comfortable writing Java code, you can rely on jMonkeyEngine as your next 3D game’s foundation. jMonkeyEngine is a state-of-the-art starting point for any aspiring 3D games developer. [Less]

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]

Slick 2D

Java OpenGL based 2D games library

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.

Java Game Networking

An Object-Oriented networking framework for Java primarily focused toward game development. The general concept is the utilization of Message objects that are essentially beans that are streamed over the network utilizing NIO.

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.

Stigma - The Game

Multiplayer online role playing game, based on original mechanics and setting, with a light client (runnable as a Java Applet) and persistent, highly customizable server.