jMonkey Initializer, Library and p2p donations

Hello jMonkey community, I bring you some exciting news: jMonkeyEngine Initializer Thanks to @richtea we now have an awesome web tool that simplifies the creation of jme projects for both new and advanced users: The jMonkeyEngine Initializer. This tool is found in the Get Started page and assists in the creation of new multi-platform gradle projects. Library: the new Store We are moving what is currently referred as “jmonkey store” to a new solution called “jmonkey library”. … Read More...

MacOS renting and development in the cloud

MacOS cloud renting has started to proliferate with the new Apple Silicon M1 chip and it turned out to be a pretty decent way to test graphical applications on MacOS without buying apple’s pricey hardware or resorting to hackish ports and vms of questionable legality. I am reporting here the procedure to quickly get a MacOS M1 cloud service up and running for testing jmonkey applications without too much hassle. … Read More...

Host migration and funding

As you might have noticed already, our services were progressively migrated, during the month of October, to a cloud provider that, I believe, provides the best price/quality for our project. Up till now we have been using amazon aws with one year of credits donated by @adi.barda, that allowed us to never use any of our community fund, but from now on you will see monthly expenses submitted to the fund to pay for hosting and related services. … Read More...

New Website

Hello. We have a new website. This doesn’t come to you as a surprise if you have been following this thread where for ~1 week a preview of the website has been exposed to the feedbacks of the community. This is the result after integrating all your suggestions, however there is always room for improvement and feedbacks are always appreciated, so if you didn’t have a chance to voice your opinion before, feel free to do it as a reply to this post. … Read More...

Donations Update

Hello fellow community members, this is the promised followup of Update in the wake of recent events

As planned, we opted for creating a collective at opencollective.com/jmonkeyengine, since this is the most future proof and community oriented alternative out there.

Update in the wake of recent events

Hello fellow community members. Probably most of you know already, but one of the team members left the community due to an internal disagreement. From his departure I took over his role, reconfigured our services to use easily redeployable docker containers, tested for different configurations and load and migrated everything to a different cloud provider with a plan that I believe is more suitable to our needs. … Read More...

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