PowerHigh is a 2D game library using a component-system, it is also very customizable via various drawing calls. And custom-doublebuffering, with (at 1.0) Android support.
You must atleast have Java 9 installed, or a more recent version (Java 10 / 11)
- Go to PowerHigh releases on the Releases tab.
- Download powerhigh-core.jar and, since you're on PC, powerhigh-swing.jar (powerhigh-opengl.jar might be available for 1.0)
- Add the JARs as dependencies to your project, using your favorite IDE.
To run the test and ensure PowerHigh works goodly, open a terminal and write following commands:
cd <directory where you installed PowerHigh>
java -cp powerhigh-core.jar;powerhigh-swing.jar;powerhigh-test.jar test.org.powerhigh.PowerHighTestIf you don't have "powerhigh-test.jar", don't worry, just download it. If you see a window opened with stuff on it, everything works and the JAR is ready to be used.
PowerHigh is built with Maven.
When everything is okay, you can look at the documentation, start a new project in your favorite IDE. And use that library that saves you days of code! ;)
If you want to contribute, first of all, thanks you! I can't work on this library full time and contributions are really helpful and keep knowing that people uses and help me on this project is motivating. But there is some rules/tips for contributing: First of all, the issue/pull request must have things that goes with the library. For example, i will not accept 3D because this library has been made for 2D, and so, would be horribly slow or would need a total re-code. Also, if you're posting an bug issue and think you can be able to post a little pull request / commits to fix it, it would be very nice to do it.
The project is released under MIT license - more details in the license file.