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LWJGL 2.0 "Almost there! - LWJGL 2.0 Release Candidate 1 is ready for consumption!" Lightweight Java Gaming Library v2.0 release candidate LWJGL Release Candidate

Lightweight Java Gaming Library v1.1.4 released. Lightweight Java Gaming Library lwjgl: More info and release notes here

Lightweight Java Gaming Library v1.1.3 released. Lightweight Java Gaming Library lwjgl: More info and release notes here

jMonkeyEngine 1.0 released. jMonkeyEngine JavaLobby: jMonkeyEngine 1.0 Released

Try the new Direct3D 9-based Java2D pipeline in 6uN EA "This build contains the new Direct3D 9-based Java2D pipeline, which is enabled by default on Windows platform. It is very similar to the OpenGL pipeline (in fact they share a lot of code)" Very exciting, Java2D performance is going to get another boost.

jPCT 1.15 released Features Changes Screenshots Article GameDev Java gaming article looks interesting : Active Rendering GamesDev.net: Java Games: Active Rendering

The excellent "Developing Games in Java" written by David Brackeen is covered here : Developing Games in Java book This page details the excellent book, plus has updates and details changes made in Java 5 and 6 and how they could affect Java gaming. He has written an extremely good Java applet game toolkit called PulpCore : http://www.interactivepulp.com/pulpcore/ http://www.pulpgames.net/ The games are fast & great to look at.

A 2D game creation toolkit that relies on powerful Java technology. It looks great, easy to use and powerful. Stencyl: About Stencyl: developer info

The excellent jMonkeyEngine 1.0 rc1 is released "The jMonkeyEngine developers are pleased to announce the release of version 1.0 (release candidate 1) of their popular open-source Java gaming engine." JMonkeyEngine Blog: Write 3D games in Java using the JMonkeyEngine

Lightweight Java Gaming Library v1.1.2 released. Lightweight Java Gaming Library lwjgl: More info and release notes here

Java 3D 1.5.1 includes the following improvements. * Windows Vista Support * Automatic fallback to D3D pipeline if OpenGL unavailable * JOALMixer-based audio engine * Automatic mipmap generation * Pack200 support for Java Web Start applications * Logging framework * Support for new JNLPAppletLauncher utility (based on JOGLAppletLauncher) * Several bug fixes Release Notes Java3D 1.5.1 Java3D 1.5.1 highlights Java3D downloads

After playing around with Java in the early days (JDK 1.2/1.3) and doing lots of JNI work, I left that area and worked mainly in C code and got lured into the C#/.NET world. Recently I evaluated lots of toolkits with the idea of playing around with 2D games and stuff like that. I found some C# DirectX projects, but nothing great. The interesting toolkits/libraries like : C# SDL.net Irrlicht.NET I found lots of others, but nothing that had either a small download for development (didn't want to download 400MB SDK), small deployment runtime, and was pure C#. Then I toyed with some native toolits, there are a lot more to choose from: Native HGE - excellent Windows 2D C++ toolkit SDL - cross platform C/C++ toolkit PureBasic - excellent, easy to get sprites blitting examples up and running, hard to judge performance because demo is always in debug mode but IDE is great and easy to use BlitzPlus - demo seemed ok, bad IDE, samples were not good. I saw an extra set of SDL bindings for ...