jMonkeyEngine is a modern developer friendly game engine written primarily in Java.
Its minimalistic and code first approach makes it perfect for developers who want the support of a game engine while retaining full control over their code with the ability to extend and adapt the engine to their workflow.




Lightspeed Frontier powered by jMonkeyEngine

Leave everything behind and try your hand at captaining a ship on the frontier of the galaxy. Customize it piece by piece to tackle whatever adventures await you. Take on crime lords and space pirates …
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MacOS renting and development in the cloud

MacOS cloud renting has started to proliferate with the new Apple Silicon M1 chip and it turned out to be a pretty decent way to test graphical applications on MacOS without buying apple’s pricey hardware or resorting to hackish ports and vms of questionable legality. I am reporting here the procedure to quickly get a MacOS M1 cloud service up and running for testing jmonkey applications without too much hassle. … Read More...

Sgold interviews Adi Barda

stephengold When, where, and how did you first become aware of JMonkeyEngine? What got you interested in using it? SceneMax3D Back in 2018, I decided to create a 3-D animation development environment that would run on Android devices. I went looking for a 3-D Java library that could be used in Android applications, and JME was the only one I found that had a “code first” approach. … Read More...

Sgold interviews Daniel Perano

stephengold Thank you for agreeing to be interviewed. First question: Do you remember when you first encountered JMonkeyEngine? What was your first impression? danielperano I started learning jME back in the 3.0 days, as I recall, and I was impressed with the features it offered. The scene-graph control and appstate design made a lot of sense to me — … Read More...

Sgold interviews Jayfella

stephengold Thank you for agreeing to be interviewed. First question: When did you first hear about JMonkeyEngine? jayfella Way back in 2014, after a long period of developing desktop applications, servers, and minecraft plugins, I decided to look into writing games. At that time I was more into C#, but XNA was a sinking ship, so looked at alternatives. … Read More...

Minie Physics Library Version 1.4 Released!

Minie version 1.4 is an exciting new add-on for the JMonkeyEngine (JME) game engine. Minie provides an open-source physics engine for desktop games. It gives software developers using JME access to the proven technology of the Bullet Physics SDK version 2.89, including: rigid-body dynamics, soft bodies, collision detection, vehicle and character controllers, ray and sweep tests, and dynamic constraints. Minie incorporates DynamicAnimControl technology for ragdoll simulation and inverse kinematics. … Read More...
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