About this Site

Homura IDE is a game development IDE written as an Eclipse Platform plug-in application which aims to simplify game development by providing an integrated toolkit which gives a graphical user interface to many tasks which would normally be code-based. We extend existing Eclipse editors and add new ones in order to achieve this functionality. Initially, we are providing extra functionality to jME but may use our own version of this in the future for tighter integration with the IDE. We allow users to run their games within the IDE itself for debugging purposes, but also allow the user to export games to both applet and runnable JAR (Fat-JAR). Our separate standalone library (Homura Extension Library) augments jME with many features which makes this linkage possible, and eliminates the need for distribution of the IDE with each exported game. It also provides a system which allows a Homura application to run in a multitude of different environments without needing any code changes.

This project is being run in conjunction with Liverpool John Moores University and the British Broadcasting Corporation.