Almas Baim: FXGL, a multipurpose game library for JavaFX (#11)

In the "JFX In Action" interviews, we already saw many business use cases of JavaFX. Let's take a side step and look at game development. FXGL is a library that helps us create JavaFX games. But it's much more than games! With the integrated Goal-Oriented Action Planning (GOAP) functionality, it can use game technology and AI to solve any kind of goal based on actions and preconditions.

In this video, Almas live-codes a fully working GOAP example application!

About Almas

Almas Baim is Computing and Maths Department Lead at the University of Brighton and the creator of the JavaFX game library FXGL.

University: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/
LinkedIn:   / almasb  
Twitter: https://x.com/AlmasBaim

About FXGL

FXGL is a JavaFX Game Development Framework with the following highlights:

No installation or setup is required
"Out of the box": Java 8-21, Win/Mac/Linux/Android 8+/iOS 11.0+/Web
Simple and clean API, higher level than other engines
Superset of JavaFX: no need to learn new UI API
Real-world game development techniques: Entity-Component, interpolated animations, particles, and many more
Games are easily packaged into a single executable .jar, or native images

You can use it for:

Any 2D game (side-scroller / platformer / arcade / RPG)
Any business application with complex UI controls / animations
Experimental 3D
Hobby / academic / commercial projects
Teaching / learning / improving game development skills
Fast prototyping of app ideas

The sources of FXGL are available on GitHub with a lot of examples in the `fxgl-samples` directory:
https://github.com/AlmasB/FXGL

The sources of the GOAP-example are available in a GutHub Gist as a single-file application that can be executed with JBang with the command `jbang FXGLGoapExample.java`:
https://gist.github.com/FDelporte/e40...

Video content

00:00 Who is Almas?
00:20 What is FXGL?
01:07 Several demo FXGL applications
05:53 Live coding a GOAP application, Goal Oriented Action Planning
28:16 Conclusion

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