Chrome uses Java in game engine

[sma]

Somebody just mentioned this in the German Java usenet group and I think it wasn’t mentioned here before: Chrome is a new FPS that uses Java to implement the game logic. You can create own maps and mods for the game using Java.

I wish I could say, for more information see www.chromethegame.com, but they neither advertize the fact that they use Java nor do they deny that There are a few references to Java in their forum.

[abies]

You can read about it in ChromEd tutorial
http://files.chromethegame.com:90/ChromEd%20Tutorial_en.pdf

Additionally, there are several directories concerning Java language:
\Java
\JavaChromeEngine
\JavaChromeGame
\Jre
The Chrome game uses Java language developed by Sun. the whole logics of the game
and the engine is based on Java language. It is a very convenient solution that enables easy to
extend the game itself (so called mods). Java language is fairly easy to learn and there is a
vast selection of documentation. If you are going to modify the Chrome game there’s no
better choice then using Java language. For sure, it is much easier then C++ (the Chrome
Engine was written in C++). Since the main purpose of this document is to teach you how to
create maps for the Chrome game and not modifying the game itself, I just add that on your
maps you will use Java classes created by the Chrome game programmers.

Some players are plagued by short engine freezes every umpteen seconds… I wonder if this has something to do with gc

[gregorypierce]

Well they are definitely using Java considering that the install package includes a JVM

[joo]

Good to see Java in a larger game, although some posts in the forums over there are really negative.

[EgonOlsen]

[quote]…although some posts in the forums over there are really negative.
[/quote]
The game doesn’t deserve that. It’s a nice game (i’ve just finished it). Similar to Halo and Unreal2 IMHO but better than both. Anyway, i don’t understand why there’s not even a Java-logo on the box. SUN seems to be the master of bad marketing ™.

[Mojomonkey]

[quote]Anyway, i don’t understand why there’s not even a Java-logo on the box.
[/quote]
Same reason there’s not a C/C++ logo on every other game box?

[EgonOlsen]

Same reason there’s not a C/C++ logo on every other game box?

No, you can’t compare that. Java is a trademark of SUN, C++ is no trademark of anyone (as far as i know). If the boxes are full of logos from nVidia, ATI, Gamespy, Miles, Bink and whatever, i don’t see a reason why not to add a SUN logo. If SUN really wants to push Java into gaming (maybe they don’t…) this would be an affordable and logical approach.

[erikd]

IIRC, Sun doesn’t want to push Java as a scripting language for games because people would think that java is too slow to handle the rest of the game too.

[shawnkendall]

I would gues that this game is/was too far along to be caught in the Java branding initiative announced at JavaOne.

[cknoll]

Hey, got the demo. Really nice! Ran like a turd on my 16mb vid card, but at home, much much better. Looking forward to buying it. I wonder what capacity they used java, just scripting or the actual rendering?

Edit: eheh, ok, i can read…NOT…says above C++ is the engine but mod builders will be writing java. Very nice.

[Preston]

[quote]IIRC, Sun doesn’t want to push Java as a scripting language for games because people would think that java is too slow to handle the rest of the game too.
[/quote]
Isn’t the entire Chrome game written in Java (not only AI scripts) - well, aside the graphic engine?
Or do I miss anything?

[abies]

Entire Chrome game except graphic engine… Let’s look:

• graphics - C/C++
• sound - C/C++ probably
• network code - also C/C++ I’m afraid

What is left ? Game itself, kind of gigantic mod prepared by developers, which IS written in java. So, from certain point of view, you can tell game is written in java - in same way UT2003 is written in UnrealScript and in which every website is written in HTML (where you forget that webserver and OS is needed to serve these HTML pages).