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jMonkeyEngine 1.0 Released

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At 1:18 AM on Oct 22, 2007, Michael Urban wrote:

After 4 years of hard work, jMonkeyEngine has announced the release of version 1.0of their 3D gaming library for Java. Prior to jMonkeyEngine, developing 3D games in java was quite difficult, as it required interacting directly with Java3D, or a thin layer ontop of OpenGL. jMonkeyEngine makes 3D game development much easier, providing a complete toolkit for developing powerful and high performance 3D games in Java. It's currently being used by several commercial game companies, as well as many open source Java gaming projects.

Congratulations to the jMonkeyEngine team for all their hard work, and their 1.0 release!

More screenshots and further information is available here

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1 . At 1:17 PM on Oct 22, 2007, Nilesh Pereira wrote:
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Re: jMonkeyEngine 1.0 Released

Firstly, Congratulations to the entire jME team on reaching the 1.0 milestone!

Secondly, what happened to the Java Gaming celebration month on JavaLobby? That was one short celebration! Honestly, it doesn't surprise me as most Java programmers are server side enterprise programmers. But we shouldn't blame Sun then for neglecting Java Gaming (and client side Java) all these years when it's obvious that the Java community itself can't be bothered about it.
2 . At 2:42 PM on Oct 22, 2007, Matthew Schmidt wrote:
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Re: jMonkeyEngine 1.0 Released

Hi Nilesh. Daniel had a bit of a medical emergency and will hopefully be back next month. I think I'll push him to do the Gaming month in November :)
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3 . At 3:21 PM on Oct 22, 2007, Nilesh Pereira wrote:
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Re: jMonkeyEngine 1.0 Released

Ohh, sorry to hear that. Now don't I look like an idiot!
Anyway, if he would like to do this again next month, I'd be happy to help in any way I can.
4 . At 4:29 PM on Oct 22, 2007, Mark Haniford wrote:
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Re: jMonkeyEngine 1.0 Released

Congratulations to the jME team. I remember downloading the code a while back and being really impressed with the documentation and clarity of the code.
5 . At 5:33 PM on Oct 22, 2007, Mike P wrote:
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Re: jMonkeyEngine 1.0 Released

This reminds me about a game I used to play called "Faery Tale" on the Amiga. I really used to like playing video games, like Faery Tale, Carrier Command, Alone in the Dark, Red Alert (PC, first one), etc.
I lost interest in video games, because I'm stopped seeing that element in games that used to get me so hooked.
Endless mindless first person shooter games had me rolling my eyes from day one pretty much. I did like Descent though. Never liked Doom.

Maybe people in the Java world can make some more "intelligent" games for a change?

At first glance this particular screen shot looks interesting. I might check this out, aside from just research to see how Java can be used to make games of course.
6 . At 2:39 PM on Oct 23, 2007, Clemens Eisserer DeveloperZone Top 100 wrote:
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Congratulations!

Thanks for this capable and clean game engine.
I've played with its terrain engine some time ago, and while other engines performed really poor (don't want to blame the C++ based engine i tested too) - jME performed superior.

I think the only problem with jME is that its not popular enough, from the technical POV its really great :)

lg Clemens
7 . At 7:55 PM on Oct 23, 2007, Michael Urban wrote:
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Re: jMonkeyEngine 1.0 Released

Hi Nilesh,

Just to elaborate on what Matt said, Daniel will be fine, and will be back in action. It's just that he is currently recovering. He will be back though, and we look forward to having him back in action. In the mean time, wish him all the best.
8 . At 6:37 PM on Oct 30, 2007, John Thompson wrote:
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Re: jMonkeyEngine 1.0 Released

The demo video on the homepage look excellent. Congratulations.
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