Check out some screenshots from the monthly WIP (work in progress) thread showcasing what jME game devs have been working on recently

hub.jmonkeyengine.org/t/march-2026...

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Mythruna - AI Something YouTube video by Paul Speed

The weekly Mythruna stream just went Live now!

Tune in to see one of jME's core devs doing some game dev with jME.

www.youtube.com/live/Ph7PKIEs7sk?si=D9-tHhriBjgPaO3M

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Starts in about 40 minutes. We'll start by going over what's left to get parity and then pick a path, I think.

jMonkeyEngine Is Dead. Long Live rCrabEngine Hello Crabs, After careful consideration, extensive community feedback, and several highly scientific alignment meetings with ChatGPT and SuperGrok, we have decided to move forward with an immediate ...

We are excited to announce that the former jMonkeyEngine is now being rebranded to rCrabEngine.

We've done a full rewrite in Rust and we've dropped the monkey in favor of a crab!

Check out the full post here: hub.jmonkeyengine.org/t/jmonkeyeng...

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Rapid Escalation Prototype by The Giant A small incremental space battle arena game where you have to defend yourself by upgrading your spaceship.

"Rapid Escalation" is now available to play on itch!

This fast-paced, incremental space arena game is made with jMonkeyEngine, and the developer has just released an early prototype for testing and feedback.

Give it a play now!

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Mythruna - "Signals and Triggers" Live Stream YouTube video by Paul Speed

Join me tonight at 9PM GMT-4 as we continue the AI stuff. Back after 2 week illness break, looking fwd to start wrapping up AI.
Mythruna - "Signals and Triggers" Live Stream youtube.com/live/ypKFA5j...
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Mythruna - "Sleep and Sit Animations" Live Stream YouTube video by Paul Speed

Join me at 9PM GMT-5 as I stumble through creating some more animations for the standard NPC types.
Mythruna - "Sleep and Sit Animations" Live Stream www.youtube.com/live/_uVRYjP...
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Starts in about 40 minutes.

Some screenshots from February's Monthly Work-in-Progress thread on the jMonkeyEngine forums:

hub.jmonkeyengine.org/t/february-2026-monthly-wip-screenshot-thread/49404

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Some recent screenshots from the Action-RPG I'm developing titled "The Afflicted Forests".

Coming soon to Steam!

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Plague Spore Combat Demo YouTube video by Ryan McDonough

I made this new custom enemy for my game. Meet the Plague Spore!

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssec...

Mythruna - "AI Refactor" Live Stream YouTube video by Paul Speed

The weekly Mythruna development stream is LIVE now!

Join one of our engine's Core Developers to get a look at some game dev using jME, with this week's focus being AI refactoring.

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHUApzFCcy4

Warrior - Open Source Fighting Game by Adi Barda An open-source fighting game

"Warrior" is an open source fighting game made with jME.

Fight your way through all the king's warriors and free the hostages.

Available to download now on itch!

adi-barda.itch.io/fighting-gam...

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Check out the January Monthly WIP (work-in-progress) thread to see the projects that jME game devs have been working on recently:

hub.jmonkeyengine.org/t/january-2026-monthly-wip-screenshot-thread/49362

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Galáxia 3074 AD by fba A shoot-em-up game strongly influenced by old school classics.

Galáxia 3074 AD is a shoot-em-up game that is strongly influenced by old school classics.

Available to purchase now on itch:

fba.itch.io/galaxia-3074-ad

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Pure Domino on Steam A 3d Domino online game where players can experience a game like they are playing physically in the same room.

Wish List "Pure Domino" now on Steam! Made with jMonkeyEngine3!

store.steampowered.com/app/3461240/...

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Mythruna - "AI/GOAP Integration pt 3" Live Stream YouTube video by Paul Speed

Join me at 9PM GMT-5 as we integrate the GOAP AI with the entity system and try to make a MOB do something interesting.
Mythruna - "AI/GOAP Integration pt 3" Live Stream www.youtube.com/live/hVzOD0y...
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Mythruna - "GOAP Integration pt 2" Live Stream YouTube video by Paul Speed

Join me at 9PM GMT-5 as we continue what we started last week with AI integration. (I've been doing back-end work to prep.) Mythruna - "GOAP Integration pt 2" Live Stream www.youtube.com/live/zeXlg8u...
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Release v3.9.0-stable · jMonkeyEngine/jmonkeyengine What's Changed (since v3.8) Improved fix for IndexOutOfBoundsException by @tonihele in #2403 Fix NPE on AbstractShadowFilter deserialization by @capdevon in #2405 Update gradle.properties by @yaRn...

Version 3.9.0-stable of the jMonkey Game Engine has just been released!

Check out the release notes on GitHub to see what's new in this production-ready release.

github.com/jMonkeyEngin...

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DevLog #1 From Flat Grid to a World - a solid Foundation YouTube video by DrohtinDev

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLyc...

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Mythruna - "GOAP Integration and Debugging" Live Stream YouTube video by Paul Speed

Join me at 9PM GMT-5 (for real) as I try to integrate "Goal Oriented Action Planning" and build debug tools for it.
Mythruna - "GOAP Integration and Debugging" Live Stream www.youtube.com/live/QWwRIAX...
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Check out this Lunar Lander simulation project that a jMonkey dev is working on.
They've also shared the source code on github for anyone interested:

github.com/neph1/LunarLander

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Some screenshots showing a jMonkey dev's progress working on a roguelike RPG game

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(December 2025) Monthly WIP Screenshot Thread roguelike rpg progress: it’s getting there. feature creep is becoming a bit of a problem though 🙂 uses jmonkey, particlemonkey, wes, tamarin and pspeed’s dropshadow code. (thanks to all in...

December’s Monthly WIP screenshot thread is complete. Check out the full thread to see everything that jMonkeyEngine devs have been working on recently:

hub.jmonkeyengine.org/t/december-2025-monthly-wip-screenshot-thread/49330/2

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Mythruna - "AI Level of Detail" Live Stream YouTube video by Paul Speed

Join me tonight at 9PM GMT-5 as I work on the level-of-detail architecture for Mythruna's mob/creature AI and game town management.
Mythruna - "AI Level of Detail" Live Stream www.youtube.com/live/Lf0IzaC...
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Mythruna - "Town AI" Live Stream YouTube video by Paul Speed

Join me tonight at 8 PM GMT-5 as I continue the AI work. Tonight we'll try to make the town NPCs do interesting things and have daily lives and stuff.
Mythruna - "Town AI" Live Stream www.youtube.com/live/JVnfbqq...
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GROOVE.MID (midis2jam2) YouTube video by wyskoj

midis2jam2 is a jMonkey based remaster of MIDIJam.

See your favorite music visualized.

Free to download now: midis2jam2.xyz

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEbBFhhsdjA

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Mythruna - "AI Architecture" Live Stream YouTube video by Paul Speed

Join me tonight at 8PM GMT-5 as I try to finalize which AI architecture Mythruna will use and maybe develop the test-bed for prototyping rules.
Mythruna - "AI Architecture" Live Stream www.youtube.com/live/tpWUBO6...
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I made a Jmonkey community game jam! So I decided to make a community game jam for us Jmonkey lads because, I thought it would be fun for the jmonkey community to make games together:) If you want to join then here is the link. See you i...

hub.jmonkeyengine.org/t/i-made-a-j...

The jMonkey Engine Community Jam 2025 theme has been announced!

Theme: You are the Villain!

Starts in just a few hours!

Link to sign-up in replies below:

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