3D Game Engine Development

I was clicking through sourceforge today and came across an older project with very little activity. It was called “The New WORLD - MMORPG”.

Does anyone know if this project has continued under another name or if there are any other 3D Engines in development? I should clarify. Are there any other commercially viable 3D engines being written in Java? If not is anyone interested in defining a feature set?

I am currently developing financial software but would like to start work on game oriented software in addition to my day-job.

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apparently nothing was commited in CVS … I think it aborted before starting.

I guess so. It would be a very difficult task as most of the project would have to be built from scratch. I did see an engine at Java One in 2001 but I am not sure that the whole game was written in Java.

The 3D Engines List contains 34 Java-based 3D engines:

http://cg.cs.tu-berlin.de/~ki/3del_1419_lang_j.html

Regrettably, this list is getting a bit old and is infrequently updated, but many of the projects it mentions are still around. I’m sure a few at least are what you’d call “commercially viable”.

Also, I believe Crystal Space now has a Java binding:

http://crystal.sourceforge.net/

So did you start any development? Are you interested in J2ME?

Open Source Java 3D Game SDK: