Java Universe is a framework designed to allow students and beginning programmers to write games and other simple graphical applications in Java.

The Universe has just been updated to allow you to test your programs properly. Please download the latest version of desktopUniverse.jar from the downloads section.

universeExamples.zip in the downloads section contains a full example program written with the universe. It has plenty of comments to get you started. The example has also been updated with instructions for using the new testing setup.

Overview

It is divided into two major components: World and Universe.

World provides a cross-platform implementation of a simple 2D graphical toolkit. It is a high level abstraction, and applications written with it will run without source modification on Android, Windows, Linux, OS X, and in a browser (as an applet)--using the various provided JARs.

Universe, which runs in the JVM (but not Android or applets), extends World with networking functionality, providing a simple way of creating client-server applications, including multiplayer games.

Features

• 2D graphics (including images)
• Automatic scaling
• Keyboard input
• Sound
• Timer

• Cross-platform (Swing, Android, applet)

  Universe

• Simple client/server architecture

• Timer
• Unlimited connections
• Automatic message serialization

Coming Soon

• Mouse input

Documentation

• Javadocs are located here: http://javauniverse.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadocs/index.html Note: the Javadocs currently do not contain information about testing, see exampleUniverse.zip for instructions. They will be updated soon.

• For a complete functional example, see universeExamples.zip under downloads

Acknowledgments

The project was inspired by the World and Universe teachpacks in Dr Scheme, though the APIs have been modified extensively to suit the Java language.