features.json

[
  {
    "icon": "fas fa-layer-group",
    "title": "Unified GLES 3.0 pipeline",
    "desc": "Write against one stable GLES 3.0 backend, powered by modern Vulkan, Metal, or DirectX through ANGLE for better portability and testability; or use OpenGL directly from 3.2 up to 4.5.",
    "tags": ["GLES 3.0", "ANGLE", "Vulkan/Metal/DX", "OpenGL 3.2–4.5"],
    "status": "Coming soon"
  },
  {
    "icon": "fas fa-globe",
    "title": "Runs everywhere",
    "desc": "Build Java games for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS, targeting modern x86_64 and ARM64 machines with one engine architecture.",
    "tags": ["Desktop", "Mobile", "x86_64", "ARM64", "iOS", "macOS", "Linux", "Android", "Raspberry", "Windows"]
  },
  {
    "icon": "fab fa-java",
    "title": "Modern Java",
    "desc": "Bring the Java ecosystem into your game: Java 11 through Java 21, Gradle builds, JVM tooling, and the huge world of Java libraries you can use directly in your app.",
    "tags": ["Java 11–21", "JVM tooling", "Java libraries"]
  },
  {
    "icon": "fas fa-network-wired",
    "title": "Powerful networking",
    "desc": "Real-time multiplayer foundations with TCP, UDP, RPC, synchronization patterns, and room to choose the network model your game needs.",
    "tags": ["TCP", "UDP", "RPC", "Real-time sync"]
  },
  {
    "icon": "fas fa-weight-hanging",
    "title": "Physics ready",
    "desc": "Rigid body, soft body, and vehicle simulation with Bullet, Box2D, or Jolt Physics integration.",
    "tags": ["Rigid body", "Bullet", "Vehicles", "Soft body", "Box2D", "Jolt Physics"]
  },
  {
    "icon": "fas fa-window-restore",
    "title": "GUI options",
    "desc": "Build HUDs, menus, debug panels, and editor interfaces directly inside the engine, using built-in GUI support or community UI toolkits.",
    "tags": ["Nifty GUI", "HUD", "Menus", "Editors"]
  },
  {
    "icon": "fas fa-fire",
    "title": "Post-processing and shaders",
    "desc": "Use built-in PBR, custom materials and shaders, plus post-processing effects like bloom, FXAA, SSAO, and tone mapping. Customize the pipeline when your game needs its own look.",
    "tags": ["Custom shaders", "PBR", "SSAO", "Screen-space"]
  },
  {
    "icon": "fas fa-volume-high",
    "title": "3D audio",
    "desc": "Cross-platform positional audio for games and simulations, with listener-relative sound, attenuation, and spatial scene integration.",
    "tags": ["Positional", "Cross-platform"]
  },
  {
    "icon": "fas fa-mountain-sun",
    "title": "Worlds & terrain",
    "desc": "Heightmap terrain, paged worlds, voxel environments, iso-surface techniques, and procedural generation can all be built on top of the scene graph.",
    "tags": ["Heightmaps", "Voxel", "Iso-surface", "Procedural"]
  },
  {
    "icon": "fas fa-wand-magic-sparkles",
    "title": "Particles",
    "desc": "Built-in particle emitters cover common effects, while the engine remains open enough for custom particles and community extensions.",
    "tags": ["Emitters", "Effects", "Custom particles"]
  },
  {
    "icon": "fas fa-shuffle",
    "title": "Multi-paradigm",
    "desc": "The engine does not force a single development architecture. Use scene graph controls, app states, ECS-style systems, custom frameworks, or your own hybrid stack.",
    "tags": ["Controls", "AppStates", "ECS", "Custom"]
  },
  {
    "icon": "fas fa-vr-cardboard",
    "title": "VR & XR ready",
    "desc": "jMonkeyEngine can be extended for VR and XR projects, with community toolkits covering headset interaction, hand input, and immersive application structure.",
    "tags": ["VR", "XR", "Headsets"]
  },
  {
    "icon": "fas fa-cubes",
    "title": "Your own engine",
    "desc": "Use jME as a foundation for your app, editor, toolchain, or engine, with access to GLES and GL calls plus internals when special requirements need to bend the flow.",
    "tags": ["Embeddable", "GLES/GL", "Internals"]
  },
  {
    "icon": "fas fa-cube",
    "title": "glTF and Blender workflow",
    "desc": "Import glTF assets with a workflow aimed at Blender parity, so materials, lighting choices, and scene setup transfer predictably into the engine.",
    "tags": ["glTF", "Blender", "PBR", "Asset pipeline"]
  },
  {
    "icon": "fas fa-puzzle-piece",
    "title": "Extensible ecosystem",
    "desc": "More than 21 years of development and an international dedicated community have grown modules, libraries, plugins, examples, and community projects around a BSD-licensed core.",
    "tags": ["21+ years", "International", "Community"]
  }
]