SGE Game Engine - News: SGE 0.15 and xSGE 0.5 Released

SGE 0.15 and xSGE 0.5 Released

Item posted by Layla Marchant <onpon4> on Thu 01 Jan 2015 04:44:02 PM UTC.

Happy new year, everyone! It's entirely a coincidence, but along with the new year comes a new release of the SGE, and a new release of xSGE:

http://stellarengine.nongnu.org/download.html

It's mostly an upgrade to xSGE, though the SGE has been tweaked a little bit as well. These are the major changes to the SGE:

• Resources are now loaded by specifying their paths, rather than having a list of paths to search for them in. One exception: sprites still retain their basic old behavior, but rather than a centralized list of paths, the single path to search for the sprite's images in is specified when loading the sprite.

• sge.Color now supports indicating alpha transparency in HTML-style hex strings.

• Several bugs fixed in the Pygame SGE.

The update to xSGE is much more significant, and includes the following changes:

• xsge.tmx added, for loading TMX maps.

• xsge.path added, for defining paths.

• New xsge.physics.MobileWall class, for moving platforms and other similar things.

• "xsticky" and "ysticky" class attributes of xsge.physics slopes have been renamed to be more specific and prevent name conflicts.

• xsge.physics collision events are now special "event_physics_collision" events, rather than just being the regular SGE collision events. This prevents them from being called when they shouldn't be.

• xsge.physics slopes now regulate the speed that colliders move along them, preventing the effect of slopes speeding up movement, by default.

• Some bugs fixed in xsge.physics.

Because of some of these changes, in particular the newly added support for TMX maps, it is now quite easy to make a platformer engine, and an example of this has been added to xSGE's examples.