jMonkeyEngine is a modern developer friendly game engine written primarily in Java.
Its minimalistic and code first approach makes it perfect for developers who want the support of a game engine while retaining full control over their code with the ability to extend and adapt the engine to their workflow.




Lightspeed Frontier powered by jMonkeyEngine

Leave everything behind and try your hand at captaining a ship on the frontier of the galaxy. Customize it piece by piece to tackle whatever adventures await you. Take on crime lords and space pirates …
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License

jMonkeyEngine is licensed under the very permissive BSD 3-Clause License, giving you the freedom to publish your game and modify the engine without limitation completely free! There are no requirements to use our engine. No splash screens, no fees and no requirement to mention jMonkeyEngine in your game at all.

Below is a copy of the BSD 3-Clause license used by this engine.

Copyright (c) 2009-2020 jMonkeyEngine
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:

  • Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

  • Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

  • Neither the name of ‘jMonkeyEngine’ nor the names of its contributors
    may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
    without specific prior written permission.

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“AS IS” AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
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