A good 2d engine for Java?

Question

Does anyone knows a good 2D engine for Java with sprites, animations and collisions handling?

Answer 1

JGame is probably what you're looking for.

You might also want to check out this question ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/293079/java-2d-game-frameworks ) that has a list of Engines out there and a bit of feedback on some of them. Hope it's helpful.

Answer 2

Slick2D seems to be a pretty solid choice.

It's widely used and it is based on OpenGL (via LWJGL) so you can get some pretty good performance if you need it.

Answer 3

Greenfoot, from the makers of BlueJ, would be a good choice if it is your first time with game-development in Java. It is not even an easy-to-learn API, but also comes with a development-environment with fully integrated Greenfoot surface.

The game-environment is the greenfoot.World while every element in the game is a greenfoot.Actor instance. The Actor class provides a method for true bitmap-intersection (greeenfoot.Actor.intersects()).

Answer 4

• jGame
• Arianne

Tangent: You'd be better off branching away from Java. The game development industry is C++/Python heavy, with C# in third.