Why FantasyEngine?
There have been a lot of complaints lately about how all new games have flashy graphics but no innovative game play . A lot of people have good (or at least different) ideas for games, but don't have the technical knowledge to implement them. Those that do have the technical skill to program all the tedious intricacies of a game spend much of the time on the multi-media, rather than on the game itself.
Fantasy Engine allows a programmer to spend more time making a game interesting than programming the graphics or the data structures. The engine, which is provided as a Java package, is geared towards those creating grid-based, turn-based games.