I promised to write something about Marvelous Marbles. So here is a quick summary:
Marvelous Marbles is a marble run maker (simulator?):
After watching marble run videos on Youtube while brushing my son’s teeth, I was struck by how few computer rendered videos there were. The project started out as an experiment to see whether it would be possible to make a marble run in the SDK (the answer is “Yes, sort of”.). I then decided to try Blender and made some pieces. It worked quite well. The most limiting factor I found was snapping. Simple grid snapping didn’t do it. So, of course there was only one thing I could do. Make an editor myself.
In addition to being cross-platform, it now also has VR support.
Shameless marketing:
https://gamejolt.com/games/Marvelous_Marbles/788181
https://twitter.com/MarvlousMarbles
Some community acknowledgements:
For basic project setup, I use: GitHub - Monkey-Droid/CrossPlatformModule: Jme CrossPlatform Demo app illustrating how to make a cross platform game
In addition I have a separate ‘assets’ project, linked to an ant project due to the “matdef issue” (Resolved: Improve ProjectAssetManager's Gradle support by peedeeboy · Pull Request #448 · jMonkeyEngine/sdk · GitHub).
The project wouldn’t have been possible without Bullet, and I quickly switched to GitHub - stephengold/Minie: Integrate Bullet Physics and V-HACD into jMonkeyEngine projects. (code has New BSD license)
Additional VR functionality comes from GitHub - oneMillionWorlds/Tamarin: A VR utilities library for JMonkeyEngine
I use a batch exporter from Blender, and then a bash script using GitHub - Simsilica/JmeConvert: A command line utility for converting models to J3O and copying their dependencies to a new target structure. to convert all the assets in one go.
Although there aren’t many effects yet, I decided to go with GitHub - Jeddic/particlemonkey: A particle Emitter library for jME (I may have a PR for some things)
For Steam integration, GitHub - code-disaster/steamworks4j: A thin Java wrapper to access the Steamworks API
I’m using my own Macaq Script · GitHub for scripted things
I also decided to roll my own UI library. Whether good or bad, I’m not sure, but I like the control.
Thank you, all. I hope I didn’t forget anyone.
