Docs

If you’re new to PlayN, read the Overview documentation to get an idea of what PlayN is and what functionality it provides. Then you might like to build and run some demos or jump right into the tutorials and build a game.

• Overview
• Javadocs: core, scene API diffs: core, scene
• Release notes
• Source code
• Set up your development environment
• Create a game project

Tutorials

Here you can learn how to use PlayN functionality step by step in the process of building a simple game.

• Reversi tutorial

Demos

We have a few simple demos of PlayN functionality. You can download and build them to ensure that you have your development environment set up properly, and they show how to do some useful things with the library.

• Hello - the PlayN equivalent of Hello World
• Physics - demonstrates JBox2D integration
• Cute - draws an environment and a character walking around therein
• Showcase - shows a bunch of different things
• Drop - a port of libgdx’s “Drop” simple game

Cookbook

The Cookbook contains simple “recipes” for doing particular things with PlayN. If there’s something specific you want to do, check there for a code sample that does what you need.