The LionEngine is a lightweight, modular 2D game engine for Java, distributed as a simple JAR library. Plug it into any project to get a full-featured foundation for your game — or use only the parts you need.

It was built for game development, powering Lionheart Remake, and designed to stay out of your way while giving you everything to ship a game.

Targets: Desktop (Java >=17 + AWT) and Android 5.0 (API 21). The game logic is fully portable between both; only input handling differs.

• Machine-speed-independent game loop with frame skipping and hybrid modes
• Windowed & fullscreen support with complete frame rate control
• Image filtering: Bilinear, Blur, HQ2X, HQ3X, Scanline, CRT
• Sequence-based flow (intro → menu → game → credits…)
• Resource management relative to directories, JARs, or temp
• Sprites, animations, tiles, fonts, parallax layers
• Binary & XML file I/O
• UDP Server/Client networking
• Utility classes: Random, Maths, Conversions, File…

• Camera with configurable view and movement
• Cursor — synced or independent from the system pointer
• Tile-based map with minimap, save/load, A* pathfinding, ray cast collisions, and raster bar effect
• Tile tools: extract tilesheet from a level rip, generate level data files
• Object system driven by XML configuration, factory caching, and a handler for update/render/retrieve
• Composable Feature system — add characteristics to objects without inheritance complexity:

A standalone Eclipse RCP4 editor to speed up level design and object authoring:

• Map editor — import/export tile maps
• Object editor — place, remove, and configure objects on the map
• Animation editor — frame-by-frame editing with mouse
• Collision editor — assign collision shapes visually
• Pathfinding editor — configure pathfinding properties per tile

Prerequisites: Java JDK 17+

Add LionEngine to your Maven project:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.b3dgs.lionengine</groupId>
    <artifactId>lionengine-core</artifactId>
    <version>11.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

Or download the JARs manually and add them to your classpath.

Dependency tree — include only what you need:

lionengine-core                  ← required
├── lionengine-core-awt          ← desktop (AWT renderer)
├── lionengine-game              ← game logic
├── lionengine-audio-wav         ← WAV audio
├── lionengine-audio-sc68        ← Sc68 Atari music
├── lionengine-audio-adplug      ← LDS music
└── lionengine-audio-adlmidi     ← MIDI music

public class AppSamplePc
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        EngineAwt.start("Sample Project", new Version(0, 1, 0), AppSamplePc.class);
        Loader.start(Config.windowed(Scene.NATIVE.get2x()), Scene.class);
    }
}

public class ActivitySample extends ActivityGame
{
    @Override
    protected void start(Bundle bundle)
    {
        EngineAndroid.start("Sample Project", new Version(0, 1, 0), this);
        Loader.start(Config.fullscreen(Scene.NATIVE), Scene.class);
    }
}

public class Scene extends Sequence
{
    static final Resolution NATIVE = new Resolution(320, 240, 60);

    public Scene(Context context)
    {
        super(context, NATIVE);
    }

    @Override
    public void load()
    {
        // Load your resources here
    }

    @Override
    public void update(double extrp)
    {
        // Update game logic
    }

    @Override
    public void render(Graphic g)
    {
        // Draw your frame
    }
}