PlayN

PlayN

Original author(s)	Google
Initial release	January 19, 2011
Stable release	2.0.8 / June 21, 2023; 18 months ago (2023-06-21)[1]
Repository	github.com/playn/playn
Written in	Java
Operating system	Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
License	Apache License 2.0[2]
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 January 2024, its current version is 2.0.8.

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

1. "Releases". Github. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
2. "LICENSE". Github. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
3. "As seen by the first commit in the repository tree". Google Code. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
4. "last forplay commit log message". Google Code. Retrieved 2013-03-25.
5. "First forplay commit log message citing PlayN". Google Code. 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]