PlayN

PlayN
Original author(s)	Google
Initial release	January 19, 2011
Stable release	1.7 / April 1, 2013
Repository	https://github.com/playn/playn;
Written in	Java
Operating system	Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
Available in	Java
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	github.com/playn/playn

PlayN is an open source Java software framework and set of libraries intended to create multi-platform games and distributed under the Apache License 2.0. It was started on January 19, 2011 as a game abstraction library built over GWT and was previously named Forplay. As of April 2013, its current version is 1.7.

History

Forplay was created in January 2011.^[1]^[2] In August 2011, the project was forked and rebranded as PlayN.^[3]

Name

The name PlayN comes from the project's motto "Cross platform game library for N>=5 platforms", as it claims to build games for five platforms: Java SE, HTML 5, Flash, Android and iOS.

References

↑ "As seen by the first commit in the repository tree". Retrieved 2013-03-25.
↑ "last forplay commit log message". Retrieved 2013-03-25.
↑ "First forplay commit log message citing PlayN". Retrieved 2013-03-25.

External links

PlayN google code site: code.google.com/p/playn
Forplay google code site: code.google.com/p/forplay
PlayN platform overview playn-2011.appspot.com
PlayN tutorial with code samples: proppy-playn101.appspot.com
PlayN Google Plus community: plus.google.com/communities/103644414672868334044
PlayN Google Groups forum: groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/playn

Videos

Cross Platform Game Programming with PlayN - New Game 2011
Introducing PlayN

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[1] "As seen by the first commit in the repository tree". Retrieved 2013-03-25.

[2] "last forplay commit log message". Retrieved 2013-03-25.

[3] "First forplay commit log message citing PlayN". Retrieved 2013-03-25.