Maintenance downtime
Due to electrical maintenance at the University of Kent, the greenfoot.org website and mailing lists will be unavailable from the evening of Thursday 27th December until the morning of Saturday 29th December.
23 Dec 2007

New demo scenario: RoboCode
We have added a new demo scenario: RoboCode. This is an implementation of the classic RoboCode framework in Greenfoot. Try it out live on the web, or download it (with source) from our scenario collection. Thanks to Daniel Heffernan and Chris Exton!
19 Dec 2007

New Greenfoot video tutorials  
We have recently added a few more Greenfoot tutorial videos. You can now watch tutorials covering a basic Greenfoot overview, creating new scenarios, and basics of actor movement.
7 Dec 2007

Greenfoot 1.3.0 released 
This new version of Greenfoot contains numerous bugfixes and improvements. Among these, one of the most asked for features has now been added to Greenfoot: internationalization of the Greennfoot UI. Full list of new features. Download.
1 Nov 2007

First Greenfoot video tutorials released 
We have released the first Greenfoot tutorial videos. Over time, we plan to build up a comprehensive collection of videos demonstrating many aspects of programming in Greenfoot. Have a look!
12 Sept 2007

Greenfoot wins Duke's Choice Award
At JavaOne 2007, the Greenfoot project was awarded the Duke's Choice Award. Greenfoot won the award in the category 'Java Technology in Education'. It was presented to the Greenfoot team at the award ceremony by James Gosling.
16 May 2007

JavaOne Competition Winner
The JavaOne programming competition is over. Winners were the following scenarios: 1. Herder (by lazyeye), 2. Crystalisation (by the dexels), 3. RebelDefense (by petercm). Congratulations! They all won a SunSPOT development kit.
15 May 2007

Running the AP Case Study in Greenfoot
We now have a Greenfoot version of GridWorld, the AP Computer Science case study, available. If you are a US AP Computer Science teacher, have a look here.
2 May 2007

Greenfoot at JavaOne
At the JavaOne conference, we will running a good-fun (we hope) Greenfoot programming competition. If you are attending JavaOne, have a look out for the Greenfoot booth, come and have a chat with us, and - if you like - join the competition! Or you can just vote for the winner, too. Details will follow shortly.
27 April 2007

User survey
Are you using Greenfoot? If you are at an institution that uses Greenfoot, please tell us about it. Greenfoot is free - we can do this because we are getting sponsorship for development, from Sun Microsystems and the University of Kent. Getting funding for continuing the development of Greenfoot is much easier for us if we can show that Greenfoot is being used out there. So please help us to keep Greenfoot going by adding your institution to the user list.
3 April 2007

Greenfoot 1.2 released
This new version of Greenfoot provides numerous bug fixes and performance improvements, but most importantly, it allows export of Greenfoot scenarios to the web or to stand-alone applications. Using this function, projects can easily be published and shared. Download.
27 March 2007

Featured scenario
We have a new demo scenario: Pong, written by Thomas Koch. 'Pong' is a nice implementation of the classis Pong game. Very nice, smooth paddle animation, and great graphics. View screenshot or download.
14 March 2007

Programming competition
On 8th-10th of March, we ran a small Greenfoot programming competition at SIGCSE'07. View some pictures or get the competition material to run the competition yourself.
14 March 2007

Asteroids video
We now have a new scenario available, complete with a short demo video: Asteroids. Watch the short video here or download and run the scenario.
1 March 2007