Game Development in Java


 

What Is Game Development?

Game Development is the art of creating games and describes the design, development, and release of a game. It may involve concept generation, design, build, test and release. While you create a game, it is important to think about the game mechanics, rewards, player engagement and level design.

Game Development can be undertaken by a large Game Development Studio or by a single individual. It can be as small or large as you like. As long as it lets the player interact with content and is able to manipulate the game’s elements, you can call it a ‘game’.


Is Java good for game development?

Can we develop games with Java?

Java is widely used by indie game development companies and for creating mobile games. And it shouldn't come as much of a surprise, given how versatile the language is and given its rich collection of open-source material. Many of the world's top mobile games have been developed in Java.


Top Companies that Use Java

There is a majority of companies such as Uber, Pinterest, Google, Instagram, Spotify, Netflix, Airbnb, etc. that use Java in their tech stack. We have listed some companies or organizations and their projects. It will help you to decide which programming language you have to choose for the next project.

NASA Word Wind

NASA Word Wind is the project of an independent agency of the U.S. federal government NASA. It is a fully 3D virtual globe that provides geographic information. It uses imagery and aerial photography received from the NASA satellite and builds 3D models of the planets.

It is an open-source proprietary software written in Java and supports all operating systems. In this project, the OpenGL API is used to provide 2D and 3D graphics that interact with the graphics processing unit. It also shows the data in real-time by using the GPS plugin such as displaying clouds, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc. Using this application, we can search for locations by geographical names, set visible layers and viewing angles, and much more.

Netflix

Netflix is one of the most popular and largest US entertainment companies that provide movies and TV shows on streaming multimedia. Most of the applications of Netflix is developed using Java. With a slight mixture of C++, android and android TV applications are almost build in Java.

Spotify

Spotify is an online audio streaming service that uses Java to implement the functionality of its web application. For example, log and stabilize, and data transfer. The android application of Spotify uses Java.

Minecraft

Minecraft is a famous computer game that is written in Java. The Minecraft Java edition comes with Java 1.8 and Minecraft used it by default.