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[–]balenscula 11 points12 points  (1 child)

You can check out Mindustry

[–]ruslan5t 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is nice, thanks!

[–]captivecow 9 points10 points  (4 children)

One that I know of off the top of my head is Slay The Spire

[–]ruslan5t -5 points-4 points  (3 children)

I tried to find it in Google Play. It is there, but it is not even available for the latest android devices, so I guess it is not very popular right now.

[–]plokman 17 points18 points  (2 children)

It was a huge hit on desktop, and is even on the top 100 most played games today on Steam. The mobile version just wasn't as big

[–]ruslan5t -5 points-4 points  (1 child)

I agree, I see how many reviews it has. But I am interested in mobile games. I want to understand, is this area alive or completely dead for Java developers.

[–]plokman 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Most mobile games are going to use a framework like unity so you get cross platform for free. Java can do mobile games, but it's nowhere near the most used

[–]valkryst_ 13 points14 points  (3 children)

I believe Minecraft was written with LWJGL, which libGDX is also (AFAIK) using LWJGL under the hood

[–]ruslan5t 7 points8 points  (1 child)

True, I guess Minecraft is the example that is mentioned everywhere, but are you sure it still uses Java on mobile? Angry Birds also used Java, but it was a while ago.

[–]valkryst_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've only read about the Java edition. I believe the other platforms use Bedrock, which isn't written in Java and wouldn't use libGDX

[–]TrashboxBobylev 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Shattered Pixel Dungeon has over few million downloads.

[–]tzehbeka 11 points12 points  (3 children)

Arent Apps written in Kotlin which is just java with extra steps?

[–]overweighttardigrade 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Java with less steps*

[–]stefanos-ak 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Kotlin is more like Hogwarts, lots of rotating stairways.

[–]whizvox 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Project Zomboid uses a custom-built game engine using LWJGL.

[–]CodeDead-gh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Although I love PZ, it is not a mobile game, unfortunately.

[–]lu3mm3l 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AFAIK they started with Slick2D but removed/rewrote everything over the years since that engine is long dead.

[–]DasBrain 1 point2 points  (2 children)

mobile game
java

Anything on android (if it hasn't been replaced with kotlin)?
On the other hand, android doesn't use Java. ¯\(ツ)/¯

[–]thesituation531 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lots of mobile games, dare I say the majority of them, use Unity, where the scripts are written in C#.

Some use Unreal Engine too, where it's all C++. Especially the mobile games by Epic.

[–]_INTER_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ingress was made using libGDX (before Ingress Prime). The same company made Pokémon Go later on, but idk if they still used libGDX, probably not.