Three Rings Releases Open Source Java Game Toolkit

TheSpoom writes "Three Rings, developers of Puzzle Pirates, a recently mentioned MMORPG, has released their Java game toolkit (a.k.a. Narya) under the GPL and are providing free hosting for games developed in it on GameGardens. Want to create your own multiplayer puzzle game? This might be a great way to get started."

Comments

Re:Java? WTF?!

[Dan Farina]

...May I point you to Jake 2 [ http://www.bytonic.de/html/jake2.html ]

the revent JVM also supports OpenGL bindings for java2d.

Java graphics need not be slow. Java need not be slow.

Three Rings and Puzzle Pirates

[FirienFirien]

Puzzle Pirates is a developmentally odd game; there's about 12 or so puzzles currently in game, with full functionality and game completeness. Occasionally a new puzzle is released to fit one of the other 8 or so crafting houses that still require a puzzle to match the craft; this has a lot of feedback from the community (people kept asking for spades in the forums (why the association between pirates and card games? Seems completely unintuitive to me, if anyone has a reason please explain!)) so they went ahead and put it in)

They have an open request for suggestions for these remaining puzzles; they're very thorough in doing these puzzles, and it's obvious that a lot of work has been done in creating puzzles that fit with their ranking systems (from 'booched' (botched) through 'fair' 'good' 'excellent' 'incredible' depending on how skilled your completion of the puzzle was relative to the others in the game - it's very dynamic and nicely sorted out), so that every single puzzle is playable by most, but still with a difficulty gradient that requires you to have serious thoughtpower and/or skill to master.

The game garden seems very much a way of getting more ideas - taking your idea to the game to try to have it incorporated as a puzzle is difficult, because they're limited in how it's implemented, has to be scorable to allow the player rankings, has to be both easy and difficult, etc etc... the game garden seems a great way of getting more of these ideas to be playable without actually putting them into the full game. This is a great idea for Three Rings, as it allows them to vet games far more easily, it allows the non-ThreeRings game designers to get their games out to others even if it doesn't get into Puzzle Pirates, and it allows the players to play more puzzles (there's a link in-game that takes you to the website too).

Plus, it's free to play them. Nice.

Re:Java? WTF?!

[Jicksta]

last I checked, stock Java came with AWT, and that was it

Actually, no. Swing has been bundled with the JDK for as long as I can remember.

Here's a snipplet from the official Javadoc package list:

javax.swing
javax.swing.border
javax.swing.colorchooser
javax.swing.event
javax.swing.filechooser
javax.swing.plaf
javax.swing.plaf.basic
javax.swing.plaf.metal
javax.swing.plaf.multi
javax.swing.plaf.synth
javax.swing.table
javax.swing.text
javax.swing.text.html
javax.swing.text.html.parser
javax.swing.text.rtf
javax.swing.tree
javax.swing.undo

Or, if that isn't sufficient enough, here're just the classes within javax.swing above:

AbstractAction, AbstractButton, AbstractCellEditor, AbstractListModel, AbstractSpinnerModel, ActionMap, BorderFactory, Box, Box.Filler, BoxLayout, ButtonGroup, CellRendererPane, ComponentInputMap, DebugGraphics, DefaultBoundedRangeModel, DefaultButtonModel, DefaultCellEditor, DefaultComboBoxModel, DefaultDesktopManager, DefaultFocusManager, DefaultListCellRenderer, DefaultListCellRenderer.UIResource, DefaultListModel, DefaultListSelectionModel, DefaultSingleSelectionModel, FocusManager, GrayFilter, ImageIcon, InputMap, InputVerifier, InternalFrameFocusTraversalPolicy, JApplet, JButton, JCheckBox, JCheckBoxMenuItem, JColorChooser, JComboBox, JComponent, JDesktopPane, JDialog, JEditorPane, JFileChooser, JFormattedTextField, JFormattedTextField.AbstractFormatter, JFormattedTextField.AbstractFormatterFactory, JFrame, JInternalFrame, JInternalFrame.JDesktopIcon, JLabel, JLayeredPane, JList, JMenu, JMenuBar, JMenuItem, JOptionPane, JPanel, JPasswordField, JPopupMenu, JPopupMenu.Separator, JProgressBar, JRadioButton, JRadioButtonMenuItem, JRootPane, JScrollBar, JScrollPane, JSeparator, JSlider, JSpinner, JSpinner.DateEditor, JSpinner.DefaultEditor, JSpinner.ListEditor, JSpinner.NumberEditor, JSplitPane, JTabbedPane, JTable, JTextArea, JTextField, JTextPane, JToggleButton, JToggleButton.ToggleButtonModel, JToolBar, JToolBar.Separator, JToolTip, JTree, JTree.DynamicUtilTreeNode, JTree.EmptySelectionModel, JViewport, JWindow, KeyStroke, LayoutFocusTraversalPolicy, LookAndFeel, MenuSelectionManager, OverlayLayout, Popup, PopupFactory, ProgressMonitor, ProgressMonitorInputStream, RepaintManager, ScrollPaneLayout, ScrollPaneLayout.UIResource, SizeRequirements, SizeSequence, SortingFocusTraversalPolicy, SpinnerDateModel, SpinnerListModel, SpinnerNumberModel, Spring, SpringLayout, SpringLayout.Constraints, SwingUtilities, Timer, ToolTipManager, TransferHandler, UIDefaults, UIDefaults.LazyInputMap, UIDefaults.ProxyLazyValue, UIManager, UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo, ViewportLayout

Each one of the other javax.swing.* packages in that package list have more or less the same amount of class members as the one pasted above.

STILL do not believe me? Download the JDK and compile the program below:

import javax.swing.*;
class SlashdotProof {
public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame me = new JFrame();
me.add(new JLabel("Is This Proof Enough?"));
me.pack();
me.setVisible(true);
}
}

As you can see, Swing is definitely present in "stock Java."