the formalities were sorted out between the previous core developers and the new. Projects powered by jMonkeyEngine Nord, a browser-based massively multiplayer online game (MMO) on Facebook, created by Skygoblin Grappling Hook, a first-person action and puzzle game, created by an independent developer Drohtin, a real-time strategy game (RTS) Chaos, a 3D fantasy cooperative role-playing game (RPG) by 4Realms Skullstone, a 3D retro-styled single player dungeon crawler game, created by Black Torch Games Spoxel, a 2D action-adventure sandbox video game, created by Epaga Games Lightspeed Frontier, a space sandbox game with RPG, building, and exploration elements, created by Crowdwork Studios Subspace Infinity, a 2D top-down space fighter MMO 3079 and 3089, randomly generated and open-world RPGs by Phr00t's Software Reception JavaOne 2008 Presentation Finalist in PacktPub Open Source Graphics Software Award 2010 Ardor3D fork Ardor3D began life on September 23, 2008, as a fork from jMonkeyEngine by Joshua Slack and Rikard Herlitz due to what they perceived as irreconcilable issues with naming, provenance, licensing, and community structure in that engine, as well as a desire to back a powerful open-source Java engine with organized corporate support. The first public release came January 2, 2009, with new releases following every few months thereafter. In 2011, Ardor3D was used in the Mars Curiosity mission both by NASA Ames and NASA JPL for visualizing terrain and rover movement. On March 11, 2014, Joshua Slack announced that the project would be abandoned, although the software itself would remain under zlib license and continue to be freely available. However, a subset of Ardor3D called "JogAmp's Ardor3D Continuation" was still actively maintained by Julien Gouesse as of 2014. References External links 2003 software 3D scenegraph APIs Free 3D graphics software Free game engines Free software programmed in Java (programming language) Java (programming language) libraries Video game engines Software using the BSD license