Playn

PlayN
Original author(s)	Google
Initial release	January 19, 2011
Stable release	2.0.5 / March 1, 2019; 5 years ago
Repository	github.com/playn/playn
Written in	Java
Operating system	Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	playn.io

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 March 2019, its current version is 2.0.5.

History

Forplay was created in January 2011.^[3]^[4] In August 2011, the project was forked and rebranded as PlayN.^[5]

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

↑ "Releases". https://github.com/playn/playn/releases. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
↑ "LICENSE". https://github.com/playn/playn/blob/master/COPYING. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
↑ "As seen by the first commit in the repository tree". https://code.google.com/p/forplay/source/list?num=25&start=18. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
↑ "last forplay commit log message". https://code.google.com/p/forplay/source/list?num=25&start=268. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
↑ "First forplay commit log message citing PlayN". https://code.google.com/p/forplay/source/list?num=25&start=268. 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 [1]
Introducing PlayN [2]

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[1] "Releases". https://github.com/playn/playn/releases. Retrieved 3 September 2019.

[2] "LICENSE". https://github.com/playn/playn/blob/master/COPYING. Retrieved 3 September 2019.

[3] "As seen by the first commit in the repository tree". https://code.google.com/p/forplay/source/list?num=25&start=18. Retrieved 2013-03-25.

[4] "last forplay commit log message". https://code.google.com/p/forplay/source/list?num=25&start=268. Retrieved 2013-03-25.

[5] "First forplay commit log message citing PlayN". https://code.google.com/p/forplay/source/list?num=25&start=268. Retrieved 2013-03-25.