PlayN

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PlayN
Original author Google
Initial releaseJanuary 19, 2011
Stable release
2.0.8 / June 21, 2023;2 years 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.

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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.

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