Java Games Middleware

[stev.glasow]

https://games-middleware.dev.java.net/

Zitat:

	The Java Games Middleware project contains game engines and special-purpose libraries for building game content in Java. In general, these are designed to provide additional capabilities over and above those provided by the core game technology projects (JOGL, JOAL, JInput) and may include such diverse technologies as scene graph APIs, rendering libraries, physics engines, AI techniques, and others too numerous to mention.

espresso game framework
http://heavyz.sourceforge.net/espresso/
Espresso is expected to be a mobile game application framework based on the J2ME MIDP 2.0 (Game API).

gamma
https://gamma.dev.java.net/
Library to make game coding easier and faster.

genuts
https://genuts.dev.java.net/
The Genuts project provides a consistent Java framework for 2D game development. It contains a library with classes primarily intended for sprite-based games, including functions for sprite manipulation and collision detection.

Java 3D Game SDK
https://java3dgamesdk.dev.java.net/
Non-native libraries for implementing 3D Game

jge
https://jge.dev.java.net/
The OctLight - Java 3D game engine includes Scene Graph, OpenGL Renderer, 3D Model Module, GUI, Map and Object Framework, 2D Rectangle Map, 2D Doom Map, 2D Outdoors Map, Network Module, Persistence and AI Framework
NWN model animation demo: https://jge.dev.java.net/demos/knightdemo.jnlp

jgeom
https://jgeom.dev.java.net/
A 3D Geometry Package.

jme
http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/
Java gaming engine that provides a high performance scenegraph based rendering and physics system.

jnag
https://jnag.dev.java.net/
Java Network API for Games

odejava
https://odejava.dev.java.net/
Physics engine for Java

simplicity
https://simplicity.dev.java.net/
A simple 3D game engine. Simplicity will not be a generic game engine. It is intended to support a specific style of 3D rendering suitable for strategy games.

viaje
https://viaje.dev.java.net/
Java 2D Game Engine dedicated for 2D arcade games and uses java2D facilities.

xith3d
https://xith3d.dev.java.net/
High performance scenegraph and renderer for gaming


Und wenn ihr noch mehr kennt, immer her damit.

[stev.glasow]

Lightweight Java Game Library (LWJGL)
http://lwjgl.org/

Zitat:

	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 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. LWJGL is not meant to make writing games particularly easy; it is primarily an enabling technology which allows developers to get at resources that are simply otherwise unavailable or poorly implemented on the existing Java platform. We anticipate that the LWJGL will, through evolution and extension, become the foundation for more complete game libraries and "game engines" as they have popularly become known, and hide some of the new evils we have had to expose in the APIs. LWJGL is available under a BSD license, which means it's open source and freely available at no charge.

JPCT www.jpct.net

Slick
http://slick.cokeandcode.com/

Slick2D is a simple set of tools wrapped around the LWJGL OpenGL binding for Java. It's aims are as follows:

* Provide a simple 2D API
* Make transition from Java2D to OpenGL easier
* Enable distribution via WebStart without the complexity
* Provide the tools required for most simple games out of the box
* Extensible framework for flexibility
* Mix and Match - you use what you want, nothing is enforced.
* Help with rendering, sound, input, collision and anything else we can think of.

[Quaxli]

Gage

Gage

GAGE is an engine designed to make developing 2D games in Java easy. Through high performace 2D wrappers, low latency sound handling, tight loop control and other built in features, GAGE will set the stage for Java's future in the gaming industry.

Currently, this page is here to provide early access to the GAGE APIs for the purpose of feedback and development. As the APIs reach maturation, a new home will be created for this engine.

[janhohner]

Sun Project Darkstar

Project Darkstar

Zitat:

	'Project Darkstar', aka 'Sun Game Server', is a scalable multiplayer and MMORPG server middleware framework by Sun Microsystems.

Zitat:

	Project Darkstar' is a research effort aimed at simplifying the process of developing multi-player online games that can be deployed on a massive scale and made available to players using virtually any client device. The first technology release under this project, the Sun Game Server, is a game agnostic, platform agnostic server technology that provides online game developers the ability to create a wide variety of games that can be provisioned through a single server platform.

Zitat: stevg

	odejava https://odejava.dev.java.net/ Physics engine for Java

http://odejava.org geht nicht und auf java.net findet man nichts weiter als ne projektbeschreibung. weiss jemand, woher man diese engine sonst noch bekommen könnte?

[Dini Mueter]

Ok ich habs:
man melde sich bei www.java.net an
man verwende einen CVS-Client (z.B. Eclipse hat einen) und verbinde sich folgendermassen:
:pserver:username@cvs.dev.java.net:/cvs
man öffne "head" und warte bis odejava gefunden und aufgelistet wird
man checke out

ist aber... naja... nicht so der bringer ^^ keine gescheiten beispiele und das ganze scheint nur halbwegs zu funktionieren

[robsc]

hat schon jemand ein Spiel mit "Project Darkstar"
realisiert und kann von Erfahrungen damit berichten?

[kwutzke]

Status 29.03.2009:

gamma
genuts
Java 3D Game SDK
jge
simplicity

were discontinued because of 12 month inactivity.

viaje

looks pretty close to that as well.

If you follow the link to

https://games-middleware.dev.java.net/

you'll see that there are not many SDK's left.

The best looking Java SDK's seem to be jme and xith.

@admins: You should update the sticky thread and throw out all discontinued projects. I wouldn't list any (new) SDK's before any real community exists around those projects. There are simply too many kids/students trying their luck on writing their own engines.

Since a few month there is a new java port of the ODE 3D game physics engine:
ode4j
It's pure Java ands supports almost everything that ODE supports (Open Dynamics Engine - home), except for trimeshes.