Open Source Java Frameworks

Arianne is a multiplayer online engine to develop turn based and real time games, providing a simple way of creating the game server rules and clients like our MORPG Stendhal. Our engine Marauroa uses Java and SQL for hosting hundreds of players on a solo host. Stendhal is a fun friendly and free multiplayer online adventure game with a huge and rich world. With hundreds of NPCs and different quests, features like the Travel log and achievement system keep track of progress. Thousands of creatures are ready to fight, above and below ground, and as players level up they can compare themselves on a detailed stats website. The engine Marauroa provides a simple way of creating games on a portable and robust server architecture. Marauroa manages the client server communication and provides an object orientated view of the world for game developers. It handles database access in a transparent way to store player accounts, character progress and the state of the world

This is a framework to develop Contexts and Agents and a Container to run them. The Container lets each Agent interact with the Context and other Agents. The agents are deployed in jar files and each one runs in an exclusive sandbox.

The Areath project aims to create an easily reusable framework for putting together modernized (but still pleasingly retro) text-based games. Legends of Areath is a full game built using the framework.

Project Elemental Shattering (ES) is a role-playing game that has been in the design phase for many years. Its first incarnation is this MUD engine. A successful MUD project will lead to the inevitable graphical MMORPG!

This software allows a MUD server to be run as a Jabber bot. Users can then play the MUD using their Jabber client instead of a MUD client or telnet. This relieves the MUD server from having to handle user chat as users can chat in Jabber instead.

P2Play is a framework for developing Peer-2-Peer Massive Multi Player Games. It provides accounting, persistant storage and region based gameplay controlling.