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2D game engine for traditional platform games
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Jeroen Broekhuizen
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Crafter 2D, version 0.8, Jeroen Broekhuizen Copyright 2009-2014 Welcome to this latest update of Crafter 2D! In this release many improvements are implemented in the Crafter Workshop. The most visible improvement is the redesigned Tile selection component. In previous versions the tiles were displayed in a long vertical list, making it difficult to find the right tile. In this version, the new component displays the tiles in a grid. Effort has also been spend in the scripting department of the Workshop. It is now possible to compile the scripts. Any errors are now click-able, leading you directly to the location where the error was found. In Crafter 2D the particle system has been improved. Using the newly added geometry shader support it can now render a huge amount of particles. In upcoming versions more capabilities will be added. Also the OpenGL driver has been repaired and is fully functional again (on par with the DirectX driver). This has been done for Linux support which still is on the roadmap (even numerous GCC compile issues have been fixed). Last but not least, a new text rendering system has been implemented allowing us to render text on screen. Currently it is only used for rendering the frame counter, but more uses will be added in a later version. More information about the engine can be found on the wiki at the SourceForge.net website: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crafter2d/ NOTE: The format of the compile yas files have been changed slightly. In technical terms, YAS used doubles before as container for reals. As the rest of the engine uses floats, this requires a lot of conversions when giving for example positions of entities to the scripts. To remove those conversions, the double has been replaced by floats. The result is that you MUST recompile your scripts before you run your game in version 0.8. REMARKS: This engine still is in pre-alpha phase and many developments still take place, so features can be broken, replaced or removed in later versions. The aim is to keep games created in these early versions running or able to be upgraded with minimal effort. RUNNING DEMO: To run the demo application, navigate to the bin directory and execute the game.exe file by double clicking on it on windows or by running ./game in the bin directory on Linux. TROUBLESHOOTING: If for some reason the application does not start, first check your log file located in the bin directory. It might contain an error which you can solve, like unsupported hardware. In case you find a software bug in the engine, please report them on in the ticket application. Please fill in as many fields as possible and a clear description of what is wrong. A reproduction scenario would be appreciated. For questions or functionality requests you can move to the forums. KNOWN BUGS: * Script compiler leaks memory, will be fixed in future patch * Bugs/compile errors in scripts might crash the engine (not fool proof yet)
