Review of new book on FXGL, providing an impressive list of components with methods to override and build the exact functionality your game requires.
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New Book: FXGL 17 — Learn JavaFX Game and App Development
New book for beginners in Java and/or JavaFX who wish to develop apps and games with FXGL, while improving Java and JavaFX skills.
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Wordish with JavaFX – Part 5
Let’s turn to JavaFX charts, showing how to customize charts with orientation and colors and how to add nodes to the chart scene graph!
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Wordish with JavaFX – Part 4
Continue with Part 4, where we’ll look at how we get our words and how we determine if a submitted word is valid!
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Wordish with JavaFX – Part 3
The JavaFX controller code maintains game state and responds to user input with appropriate updates to the UI.
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Wordish with JavaFX – Part 2
Learn specialized JavaFX Labels and Buttons, pseudo-classes for CSS styling, and third-party font libraries and customizing Scene Builder!
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Wordish with JavaFX – Part 1
Learn about the main UI layout of a cool JavaFX game using Scene Builder, TilePane, FlowPane, controller code, iOS and Android settings!
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Java Panama Polyglot (Swift) Part 2
Hello and welcome back to the Java Panama Polyglot series where we will be presenting quick tutorials or recipes on how to access native libraries written in other languages. In Part 1 you got a chance to learn about how to use …
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FXGL Game Engine 17 Released
Game developers unite around Java and JavaFX! Version 17 of the FXGL game engine brings a number of improvements in many areas.
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Project Panama for Newbies (Part 3)
We are going to dig a little deeper in our exploration of Project Panama and how to talk to third party libraries such as SDL & OpenGL.
With the skills you’ve learned from Part 1 and Part 2, you should be able to call most of the common function signatures in many libraries out in the wild.
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FXGL Game Engine 11.17 Release
The FXGL game engine is now at 11.17. Most of the changes in this release focus on internal code quality and fixes.
Major additions to note:
1. Added download file API to NetService. Using this API developers can download files from any URL. For example, if certain assets are stored remotely.
2. Rotation and scale in 3D now support origin points (pivot points). This is a beneficial addition since some animations will need specific origin points for transformations to achieve the desired effect.
