Right now our top priority is nailing down certain essentials before we’re ready to send in our application, which deadline is 13. March. The bulk of these essentials are explained in our newly created roadmap. You might not have seen jMonkeyEngine 3.0’s feature set ‘bulleted’ in full like this before, so give it a peek!

Most important is the ideas list, and we need your help! Please drop by the board and share any feature suggestions you might have! Some additional guidelines are on their way.

Integration into the main branch is not the only change, however, as the backbone of the physics system has changed as well.  In the past year there have been some pushes to get away from Open Dynamics Engine and move towards the more active jBullet engine.  In the past few months, the jbullet-jme project has picked up steam and has now been ported to jME3 for a much tighter integration than in previous versions of the engine.

The ‘Core Team’

Kirill Vainer ‘Momoko_Fan’

Lead Programmer, jME3 Architect
Student at New Jersey Institute of Technology

Erlend Sogge Heggen ‘Sadr‘

Project Manager, Junior Webmaster
Student at Vancouver Film School (on-hiatus)

Skye Book ’sbook’

Project Manager, Senior Webmaster
Student at Polytechnic Institute of NYU

Normen Hansen ‘normen’

GDE architect & general integrations
Engineer at a theater in Bremen

We have been in close contact with Normen over the course of three weeks now, getting to know his personality and working habits. Reckon he’ll fit in just fine

Normen’s prevalent projects:

jBullet-JME
This jBullet integration coupled with Normen’s overall dedication on the forum is what made him stick out in the first place. This integration will almost certainly find its way into JME3 at a later point, so it’s well worth getting affiliated with.

GDE for JME3
This here is Normen’s pet project, and will probably stay as such for some good weeks ahead. With an influx of novice programmers (e.g. ‘designers’ such as myself) we have seen an increased interest in JME usability. A full featured GDE is just what we need to widen JME’s appeal to all kinds of game designers, without affecting the solid base of technology underneath.

Thanks for listening, and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you think you could be an asset to the JME project.

contact@jmonkeyengine.com

~ Erlend Sogge Heggen

Running a jME3 Demo Inside of Android

The adoption of Android abilities into jME3 means big things for game developers using the engine.  The ability to develop for many platforms with expertise in one engine will empower jMonkeyEngine users like never before.  Games, scientific applications, and just about anything else you can dream up are all coming to an Android phone near you.  One of the most portable, and open source, engines around just got more accessible.

Android has made a splash in the mobile industry not only as the first operating system to be put forth by Google, but by being the first real competitor to Apple’s iPhone OS.  The operating system is currently available on a number of phones including the HTC Dream(marketed as the G1), HTC Hero (marketed as the G2), Motorola Droid, and the Nexus One.  More phones are forthcoming meaning that Android is likely to keep getting into new hands.

Excited?  We sure are.  Hop over to the forums, start playing with jME2 or the in-development jME3, and join in the fun!

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