Great library, particularly for beginners who have done a Java 101 course. But why is it being posted now?
Because version 3 just got released.
LWJGL: Lightweight Java Game Library 3
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
The coolest thing I ever did was bundle native libs for Linux, OSX and Windows in an applet, that let me access OpenGL in a Java applet years before WebGL was a thing. We had the technology to do real 3d-accelerated graphics in a type-safe jit-compiled language with a great IDE 15 years ago already.
It is good that it is now dead in the name of security.
Java is dead in the browser... same as flash, or c or any other language. At least until the nightmare that is WebAssembly comes to fruition.
That said... the potential to exploit security holes via GL library calls is, unfortunately, alive and well even with WebGL.
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#13Writing Java game applets was what got me started in software development back in the late 90's. Game development in Java was always a huge challenge for several reasons; perceived (and real) slowness, slow startup, distribution, etc.... But putting a game in a web page anyone could play was really cool back then (to me at least). Lwjgl was always one of the marquee projects. The lack of value types[1] in Java has al…
There are still a number of indie devs using Java, as far as I can tell the vast majority using LWJGL. When game jams come around I'll play maybe 100 games that other participants made, and a small but respectable chunk will be JAR files (maybe 10 of those 100?).
It might even be the second most popular way to make indie games, after Unity. Depends on how you count "indie" games.
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#14Is there a way to use LWJGL for mobile games?
You would want to use LibGDX which allows you to develop for mobile using a LWJGL backend (if you feel like it) and then simply publishing to Android or iOS.
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#15I got into software development through a LWJGL project, and it changed my life.
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#16Is there a way to use LWJGL for mobile games?
Absolutely. A somewhat higher level library building on lwjgl (2) called libgdx has good documentation and examples on it - The Google Pixel live wallpapers (3D models of places, with some parallax effect) are written using it.
There is also a framework called flixel building on top of libgdx, which also has demos for Android.
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#18Writing Java game applets was what got me started in software development back in the late 90's. Game development in Java was always a huge challenge for several reasons; perceived (and real) slowness, slow startup, distribution, etc.... But putting a game in a web page anyone could play was really cool back then (to me at least). Lwjgl was always one of the marquee projects. The lack of value types[1] in Java has al…
Can't forget Runescape, especially since you mentioned putting a game in a web page anyone could play.
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#19I got into software development through a LWJGL project, and it changed my life.
Serious? If so I'd love to hear the story.