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New Live Stream: FXGL: Cross-Platform JavaFX Game Engine for Java and Kotlin

Register now and join us for our next IntelliJ IDEA Live Stream of FXGL: Cross-platform JavaFX Game Engine for Java and Kotlin.

In this live stream, Almas Baimagambetov, Senior Lecturer in Game Development at the University of Brighton, will talk about how you can use Java and Kotlin to create games using your favorite IDE, IntelliJ IDEA. As the creator of the FXGL gaming engine, he is the best person to demonstrate its capabilities.

Day: Wednesday
Date: July 21, 2021
Time: 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm CEST

FXGL: Cross-platform JavaFX Game Engine for Java and Kotlin

Session agenda

Modern JavaFX provides hardware acceleration support on a range of platforms, including desktop, mobile, and embedded, allowing the development of high-performance cross-platform applications. FXGL seamlessly extends JavaFX to bring support for real-world game development concepts and techniques.

This session introduces viewers to cutting-edge FXGL features and provides links to external resources for getting started with the engine.

Additional Resources by the presenter

Almas has a lot of videos and tutorials on his YouTube Channel to help you get started with game development. You can also check out the code and projects on his GitHub repository.

Asking questions

If you have any questions on this topic, you can submit them now or during the live stream. To ask your questions now, post them as comments to this blog post. To ask them during the live stream, please use the chat window.

The host will try to answer all of your questions during the session. If we run out of time, we’ll post the answers to any remaining questions in a follow-up blog post.

Your presenter and host

About the presenter:

Almas BaimagambetovAlmas Baimagambetov https://twitter.com/AlmasBaim

Almas Baimagambetov is a Senior Lecturer in Game Development at the University of Brighton, with a PhD in Computer Science.

He has over 14 years of software development experience and is a huge fan of open source. His prominent contributions to the JVM community include the FXGL game engine, a wide range of open-source games, and a collection of practical tutorials.

Almas has a YouTube channel focused on Java, Kotlin, and JavaFX.

About the host:

Mala GuptaMala Gupta https://twitter.com/eMalaGupta

Mala works as a Java Developer Advocate with JetBrains.

A Java Champion, she has authored multiple books with Manning, Packt, and O’Reilly Publications.

An international speaker at industry conferences, she has 20 years of experience in the software industry. She has been actively supporting Java certification as a path to career advancement.

Mala also co-leads Delhi JUG and Women Who Code Delhi.

See you at the live stream, and happy developing!

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