How much is PlayN supported by Google?

Question

When you access PlayN's site you see that PlayN's logo uses Google colors: http://code.google.com/p/playn/

Also, Lilli Thompson talked about PlayN at New Game Conference in 2011 as a Google game developer advocate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=iK9Xl58IxKw&t=4 (I haven't watched the video.)

But she's not at Google anymore (http://plus.google.com/111647958621817995641/posts/EVptyYGHSfd and http://twitter.com/lillithompson/status/183299616647811072)

However, When you visit https://developers.google.com/games > Web games or > Mobile Games, there's no reference to PlayN. You find Android development, which links to http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. There's a Google Play Game Services (GPGS) too, that offers social features (achievements, multiplayer, leaderboard) for game development for Android, iOS and Web (http://developers.google.com/games/services). There are "Getting started" tutorials for GPGS for each platform (Android, iOS, Web). No PlayN, which compiles to these three platforms plus Java desktop.

So, is PlayN really supported by Google? Or was it once, and now the community is by itself?

Arium

Answer 1

Playn is a community supported project, and i suspect always will remain such. Google had a hand in making it, but their contribution recently has been waning. But it doesn't mean the project is dying or anything.

Mountainside

That's sad. The framework would have a great potential. Especially with Triple Play. The HTML and Android compilation both have their gotchas. – Gawlas

it still has great potential. It lacks in some libraries that other older frameworks have - such as a built in camera library. – Mountainside