Open Source Java Frameworks for Linux

Arianne is a multiplayer online engine to develop turn based and real time games, providing a simple way of creating the game server rules and clients like our MORPG Stendhal. Our engine Marauroa uses Java and SQL for hosting hundreds of players on a solo host. Stendhal is a fun friendly and free multiplayer online adventure game with a huge and rich world. With hundreds of NPCs and different quests, features like the Travel log and achievement system keep track of progress. Thousands of creatures are ready to fight, above and below ground, and as players level up they can compare themselves on a detailed stats website. The engine Marauroa provides a simple way of creating games on a portable and robust server architecture. Marauroa manages the client server communication and provides an object orientated view of the world for game developers. It handles database access in a transparent way to store player accounts, character progress and the state of the world

Crystal Space is an Open Source 3D SDK for Unix, Windows, and MacOS/X. It renders with OpenGL and features GLSL shaders, CG shaders, deferred rendering, dynamic shadows, bullet based physics library, terrain engine, skeleton based animation meshes, exporter for Blender, portals, etc...

A Java framework for writing sprite based games (turn-based, card, and arcade games.) Provides: Sprite management, rendering (Java2d or OpenGL), Collision Detection, Sprite widgets (buttons etc...), visual editor for layout of game widgets.

AjaxRPG is a Joomla component for the development of web-based RPG. Il includes a Java client to be more immersive. AjaxRPG is now Joomla 1.5 native.

Magic Lantern is a framework for developing multimedia applications. It is designed to be a cross-platform solution for multiple targets such as desktops, game consoles, mobile devices and set-top boxes.

This is a framework to develop Contexts and Agents and a Container to run them. The Container lets each Agent interact with the Context and other Agents. The agents are deployed in jar files and each one runs in an exclusive sandbox.

Abstract Laboratory for Education & Science – 6 Java frameworks for rapid development of GUI applications/applets. Includes plots, unified access to Swing components and super-rapid development of “labs" (typical educational/research applications)

AOLibrary is a java-based library for writing chat bots that can be used with the game Anarchy Online. (Bots are often used to facilitate communications within an in-game organization or guild.) The library is written in Java 6.

The Areath project aims to create an easily reusable framework for putting together modernized (but still pleasingly retro) text-based games. Legends of Areath is a full game built using the framework.

CardShark is a software package that includes a utility for creating and organizing playing cards and an interactive environment for playing games with those cards via the internet.

Cherokee is a fully extensible and scriptable automation engine for any and all java applets. To make it work for your favorite java applet the most you have to do is write is two classes.

This project is an extended implementation of Knuth's "Dancing Links" algorithm and some use cases (e.g. Sudoku).

DominoBot is a project for a simple IRC framework. It is currently a simple yet functional Domino game bot for IRC. It currently allows arbitrary piece (stones) numbers and multi session support. The game states are broadcast to the lobby. Uses colors to identify the player who layed each stone. It is a case study to create a framework for quick development of turn-based sessions, such as games, voting, meeting and etc. Uses PircBotX (redistributed - you do not need to download it). Pure J2SE. Java 6.0 compliant. GPL v3 license.

Project Elemental Shattering (ES) is a role-playing game that has been in the design phase for many years. Its first incarnation is this MUD engine. A successful MUD project will lead to the inevitable graphical MMORPG!

This was once an engine targeted at online games. It has been succeeded by another project with the same goal: http://io-project.org

Enthusiasm is a software framework to be implemented in support to the creation and production of drama-based information presentations. The framework consists of off-line editors and real-time applications.

Evver Games is an open source project that contains an AJAX web renderer and framework for creating card games; along with the card games Golf and No Peeking.

A platform which hosts battles between Fruit War robots - special java programs. The platform accepts source code as robot, and ranks all robots according to battle result. This project has been totally refined and is now hosted at http://robotypo.appspot.com

btp2p stands for Bluetooth p2p and it is a collection of java classes for p2p networks over Bluetooth. Useful for CLDC multiplayer games and other applications with extendable design for layered protocols. HuNt is a chatroom midlet based on btp2p.

Io is a project in development. It aims to be a backend for all kinds of online games, relieving game developers from the task of writing the technical infrastructure needed to support such games.

Java middleware/engine to make the creation of 2D games easy and fun.

Jepe is an Pokémon Game engine. We have been working on pokémon fan games for quite a while now, but found no easy framework to program them. Therefore we are making this engine.

A comprehensive, high performance framework for accelerating development of games and other rich multimedia applications in Java.

This software allows a MUD server to be run as a Jabber bot. Users can then play the MUD using their Jabber client instead of a MUD client or telnet. This relieves the MUD server from having to handle user chat as users can chat in Jabber instead.

Java Weapon Script Engine is a Java library for implementing dynamic weapons. Weapons are specified and parsed from script files. The goal of the project is to be able to generate any kind of weapon and behavior.