Jake2

Infobox_Software
name = Jake2



caption =
developer = [http://bytonic.de/index.html Bytonic Software]
latest_release_version = 0.9.5
latest_release_date = May 05, 2006
latest_preview_version =
latest_preview_date =
operating_system = Cross-platform
genre = Video game
license = GPL
website = [http://bytonic.de/html/jake2.html bytonic.de/html/jake2]

Jake2 is a Java port of the GPL release of the Quake II game engine.

History

The 0.9.1 version of Jake2 was shown by the JOGL team for JavaOne 2004, to present an example of Java-OpenGL interoperability [cite web
url=http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=387272
title=Jake2 at JavaOne and WWDC
publisher=Jake2 development Team
last=Zickner|first=Holger
date=2004-06-29
accessdate=2008-04-05] [cite web
url=https://jogl.dev.java.net/ts1361.pdf
title=3D Application and Game Development With OpenGL
last=Russel|first=Kenneth
date=June 2004
accessdate=2008-04-05] .

As of April 2008, and even if the last release is now two years old, development of Jake 2 is still active.

Architecture

Jake2 is a full-Java application. It can use Java OpenGL / Java OpenAL or LWJGL for its internal Java low-level OpenGL library. Both single and multiplayer modes of Quake are working, and its possible to use it both as an installed application or by Java Web Start.

The performance of Jake2 is at par with the original C version. In some hardware configurations, it is even better [cite web
url=http://bytonic.de/html/benchmarks.html
title=Benchmarks
publisher=Jake2 development Team
accessdate=2008-04-05] [Jake2 0.9.4 on Java 5.0 is 260/250 fps compared to 245 fps for the original C code, for Athlon XP 2400, GeForce 4 MX, Windows 2000, in windowed mode] .

References

ee also

* Java OpenGL
* Lightweight Java Game Library

External links

* [http://bytonic.de/html/jake2.html Jake2 Web site]
* [http://sourceforge.net/projects/jake2/ Jake2 sourceforge project]