de.gurkenlabs:litiengine
LITIENGINE 🕹 The pure 2D java game engine.
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LITIENGINE 🕹 The pure 2D java game engine.
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: gurkenlabs
- License: mit
- Language: Java
- Default Branch: main
- Homepage: https://litiengine.com/
- Size: 11.8 MB
Statistics
- Stars: 790
- Watchers: 33
- Forks: 101
- Open Issues: 28
- Releases: 24
Topics
Metadata Files
README.md
LITIENGINE is a free and open source Java 2D Game Engine. It provides a comprehensive Java library and a dedicated map editor to create tile-based 2D games.
:video_game: Main Features
- Basic Game Infrastructure (GameLoop, Configuration, Resource Management, Logging, ...)
- 2D Render Engine (GUI Components, Spritesheet Animations, Ambient Lighting, Particle System, ...)
- 2D Sound Engine (support for .wav, .mp3 and .ogg)
- 2D Physics Engine
- Support for Tile Maps in .tmx format (e.g. made with Tiled Editor)
- Player Input via Gamepad/Keyboard/Mouse
- Entity Framework
:gear: Installation
:elephant: Gradle
The LITIENGINE Java library is hosted on the Maven Central Repository, i.e. fetching it with Gradle is as simple as configuring your source repository and defining the dependency as shown below.
Groovy syntax:
```groovy repositories { mavenCentral() }
dependencies { implementation 'de.gurkenlabs:litiengine:0.8.0' } ```
Kotlin Syntax:
```kotlin repositories { mavenCentral() }
dependencies { implementation("de.gurkenlabs:litiengine:0.8.0") } ```
Other ways of installing and using LITIENGINE
For alternative ways of downloading and applying LITIENGINE to your project, visit our Getting Started Guide.
:books: Documentation
The LITIENGINE documentation contains in-depth explanations, guides, and tutorials for general concepts of the engine.
Javadocs
If you are searching for a particular method or class within the API or just want to further explore the engine's capabilities and structure, the Javadocs are a good place to start:
Questions
You've found yourself trying to work out a feature of the engine that is not yet documented? Join our community in the LITIENGINE forum hosted on Github or on Discord for troubleshooting.
Bugs and Issues
You've encountered an obvious issue or bug with LITIENGINE or want to request enhancements and features? File an issue in our Issue Tracker.
:package: Libraries Used
- JInput for Gamepad support
- MP3 SPI for .mp3 support
- Ogg Vorbis SPI for .ogg support
utiLITI
- Darklaf for theming support
Other Recommended Libraries
- Steamworks4j for supporting the steamworks SDK
:handshake: Contributing
If you've decided to help out with LITIENGINE's development - you're awesome! And here's what you need to to: * Agree to our Code of Conduct * View our Contribution guidelines
Star History (Compared with other 2D java game libraries / frameworks / engines)
Contact
LITIENGINE is created by two Bavarian brothers known as gurkenlabs:
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:speech_balloon: Links and Social Media
Sponsors and supporters
Owner
- Name: Gurkenlabs
- Login: gurkenlabs
- Kind: organization
- Email: info@gurkenlabs.de
- Location: Germany
- Website: http://www.gurkenlabs.de
- Repositories: 12
- Profile: https://github.com/gurkenlabs
Two Bavarian brothers, one goal: Create the purest, most comprehensible Java 2D game engine out there.
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authors:
- given-names: Steffen
family-names: Wilke
email: steffen@gurkenlabs.de
- given-names: Matthias
family-names: Wilke
email: matthias@gurkenlabs.de
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abstract: >-
LITIENGINE is a free, open-source, and simple Java
2D Game Engine created by two Bavarian brothers.
The engine consists of two components: A
lightweight Java library that provides basic game
infrastructure and rendering based on AWT, as well
as the dedicated project management tool and map
editor utiLITI.
keywords:
- 2D
- entity-framework
- AWT
- Game engine
- java
- LITIENGINE
- particles
- physics-engine
- Tilemap
- ui-framework
- utiLITI
license: MIT
version: 0.5.2
date-released: '2022-01-06'
GitHub Events
Total
- Create event: 39
- Release event: 1
- Issues event: 13
- Watch event: 63
- Delete event: 32
- Issue comment event: 26
- Push event: 80
- Pull request review event: 9
- Pull request event: 68
- Fork event: 10
Last Year
- Create event: 39
- Release event: 1
- Issues event: 13
- Watch event: 63
- Delete event: 32
- Issue comment event: 26
- Push event: 80
- Pull request review event: 9
- Pull request event: 68
- Fork event: 10
Committers
Last synced: 6 months ago
Top Committers
| Name | Commits | |
|---|---|---|
| Gurkenlabs | g****s@w****e | 1,253 |
| Steffen Wilke | m****l@s****e | 1,019 |
| nightm4re94 | m****s@g****e | 687 |
| TheRamenChef | b****y@g****m | 289 |
| Steffen Wilke | s****e@w****e | 108 |
| Gamebuster19901 | G****1 | 55 |
| dependabot[bot] | 4****] | 43 |
| weisj | 3****J | 41 |
| Calvin M.T | c****t@g****m | 28 |
| Gurkenlabs | i****o@g****e | 26 |
| jluech | j****k@l****h | 25 |
| ddreimane | d****e@g****m | 25 |
| Niels Kübler | n****r@u****h | 22 |
| jdeblander | j****r@h****m | 8 |
| Phlosioneer | m****2@g****m | 4 |
| hedfol | 1****l | 3 |
| Commaret Maxime | m****t@o****r | 3 |
| steffen-wilke | s****e@w****e | 3 |
| Yannik Schöberl | y****l@g****m | 2 |
| iamllcoolray | l****4@g****m | 2 |
| SushmitaGoswami | s****4@g****m | 2 |
| Josef Friedrich | j****f@f****s | 2 |
| Felix Kollin | f****n@g****m | 2 |
| Kennan Fattahillah | c****n@g****m | 2 |
| “SushmitaGoswami” | “****4@g****” | 2 |
| Niklas Schultz | t****n@g****m | 2 |
| George Fields | g****s@l****o | 1 |
| nick | n****k@e****u | 1 |
| EagleoutIce | m****9@w****e | 1 |
| DeepSource Bot | b****t@d****o | 1 |
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Committer Domains (Top 20 + Academic)
Issues and Pull Requests
Last synced: 4 months ago
All Time
- Total issues: 87
- Total pull requests: 149
- Average time to close issues: about 1 year
- Average time to close pull requests: 10 days
- Total issue authors: 28
- Total pull request authors: 17
- Average comments per issue: 2.54
- Average comments per pull request: 0.86
- Merged pull requests: 119
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 75
Past Year
- Issues: 6
- Pull requests: 79
- Average time to close issues: about 1 month
- Average time to close pull requests: about 8 hours
- Issue authors: 5
- Pull request authors: 5
- Average comments per issue: 2.5
- Average comments per pull request: 0.23
- Merged pull requests: 65
- Bot issues: 0
- Bot pull requests: 62
Top Authors
Issue Authors
- nightm4re94 (37)
- Gamebuster19901 (8)
- Hades948 (6)
- steffen-wilke (6)
- ecchilds (4)
- eHag-FRU (2)
- weisJ (2)
- bkebir (2)
- mmbi-glitch (1)
- dominusac12 (1)
- EdwardAndress (1)
- MAAMichaud (1)
- evgen-cmd (1)
- costalfy (1)
- ElectricIceBird (1)
Pull Request Authors
- dependabot[bot] (95)
- nightm4re94 (26)
- Gamebuster19901 (16)
- SushmitaGoswami (8)
- weisJ (7)
- Josef-Friedrich (4)
- concurrent-recursion (3)
- iamllcoolray (3)
- hedfol (2)
- Mshnik (2)
- Hades948 (2)
- steffen-wilke (2)
- mathieu-fanduel (1)
- nwessman (1)
- ecchilds (1)
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Packages
- Total packages: 1
- Total downloads: unknown
- Total dependent packages: 0
- Total dependent repositories: 13
- Total versions: 48
repo1.maven.org: de.gurkenlabs:litiengine
The FOSS 2D Java game engine.
- Homepage: https://litiengine.com/
- Documentation: https://appdoc.app/artifact/de.gurkenlabs/litiengine/
- License: MIT
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Latest release: 0.10.7
published about 1 year ago
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