..why engine is named jMONKEY

[Ecco]

…not that this question carry any importance, but my curiosity…why is it called ‘monkey’ ??

[normen]

JME splash screen

Wow… it worked. Yes, before jME existed I used MojoMonkey as my gamer tags. Early in my career I worked for a military contractor and started studying graphics engines for rendering some things they were working on. This was all done in C++ and became complex enough that I figured that it was an engine, so jokingly called it the Monkey Engine. Fast forward a few years and I am working in Java and again need to do some graphics. I dust off the Monkey Engine and start converting it to Java, so st…