A 2D top-down game written entirely in Java with no game engine. You explore a dungeon, collect keys scattered across the map, and use them to open doors in search of treasure.

Jysics is a physics engine written in Java with JavaFx that simulates the behavior of balls and rectangles in a 2D environment. It includes features such as collision detection, friction, and gravity.

Abstract: In this article, the Lightweight Java Gaming Library (LWJGL) is used to develop and implement a lightweight 2D gaming engine with an emphasis on GPU optimization. Sprite rendering, scene ...

Unity, the increasingly popular “build once, deploy anywhere” 3D game engine, is going 2D. At the company’s UNITE conference in Vancouver this morning, CEO David Helgason announced three things: ...

Up until this year, game engines were not something most gamers had to give much thought to beyond the one or two seconds their logos might appear while a game was loading. That's why this news about ...

Cocos has had great success with PC and mobile games with its 2D game engine. Now it is taking the open-source software to the third dimension with Cocos Creator 3.0. Cocos is including its first ...

YoYo Games launched GameMaker Studio 2 on macOS this week, bringing the popular multiplatform 2D game development engine to the Mac for the first time. To date, the GameMaker Studio family of products ...

In the 1980s, people flocked to arcades to play Pacman, Space Invaders, Frogger, Donkey Kong, and other games. These classics are still fun to play: If you’ve never played one of these arcade games, ...

We're pleased to announce the launch of Homura, an Open Source Java game engine and IDE, developed by BBC Research and Development with Liverpool John Moores University. We've been waiting for this ...