jMonkeyEngine 3.0 Cookbook

Rickard Edén

Aug 2014 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

If you are a jMonkey developer or a Java developer who is interested to delve further into the game making process to expand your skillset and create more technical games, then this book is perfect for you.

Ratings and reviews

This book is not for absolute beginners, you must have created something with jMonkey first; just to gain the experience required to understand what this book is written about. Then use the advice given by this book to create your *next* project. The good: ... The bad: The 'World Building' examples don't work well because jMonkey's Scene Composer and its various editors are too buggy. I also remember that there were a few extra steps I had to go through in order to get jMonkey's scene composer to work but this book does not mention them. I feel this book has been written in the hope that jMonkey will, at some point be a stable 'drag and drop' and a 'palette and property' style game building but jMonkey is not at the moment (September 2015). The Nify GUI examples are pretty bad and obviously untested. By untested I mean: asked someone other than the author to try them out. The Nifty GUI instructions are chaotic if not just incomplete. Conclusion: I know technical books take a lot of work to write and their examples are rarely tested. I'd like my money back :-/ For effort I give 2 stars.

About the author

Rickard Edén is a Java and Android development consultant, game developer, and lifelong game enthusiast, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Having worked in the past as a designer in the gaming industry, Rickard has worked on a number of different genres and picked up tricks of the trade from many disciplines. He has a pragmatic approach to programming and has developed games for many years using jMonkeyEngine. It is now his intention to help other developers by sharing what he's learned so far with this book.