PlayN

PlayN is a Java library for writing games which can be deployed to:

• Windows/Mac/Linux desktop Java
• iOS devices
• Android devices
• HTML5 browsers

PlayN is free and open source, released under the Apache 2.0 license.

Features

• Program against one API and deploy to desktops, browsers and mobile devices
• High and low-level drawing APIs are provided: write directly to OpenGL, use QuadBatch and our built-in shaders, use Surface for an accelerated Canvas-like API, or use the 2D scene graph
• 2D (CPU) Canvas drawing API, with text rendering
• Music and sound effect playback
• Mouse, touch and keyboard input
• The TriplePlay library builds on PlayN to provide a UI toolkit, tweened animations, keyframe animation, particle systems, and much more

Getting Started

• Read an overview of the PlayN functionality
• Build and run the demos
• Work through the tutorials
• Read our cookbook of delicious coding recipes
• See all the documentation

Community

• Check out our gallery of PlayN games
• Talk to other PlayN users on the mailing list
• Ask and answer PlayN questions on StackOverflow

Code

• Get the PlayN source code on Github
• Read the release notes