Introduction

Abstract

JavaFX is a modern high-performance graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit for Java. It provides hardware acceleration support on a range of platforms, including desktop, mobile, and embedded, allowing the development of cross-platform applications. However, to develop games with JavaFX effectively, numerous domain-specific concepts are needed. To address this need, the FXGL game engine extends JavaFX and brings support for real-world game development techniques (examples seen in Figure 1-1). These include the entity-component model, pathfinding, physics, particle systems, sprite sheet animations, and many other features. As a result, JavaFX developers can produce games more quickly and more effectively with FXGL and easily package their games to native platform images, including Android and iOS.