iPhone Application Development
April 12, 2014
For some kinds of components, one per entity is enough. An entity can’t have two transforms; it will only ever be in one place. However, a single entity may have need to have several sprites. I’ve expanded the engine to allow for multiple components of the same type.
April 10, 2014
The deadline for submitting my thesis is closing in quickly, so I’ve stopped working on the engine and have been devoting my time to writing about it.
April 5, 2014
I’ve added placeholder art assets to the repository, courtesy of kenney.nl, so you should be able to check out the code and immediately compile and run. I’m intending to work on spatial partitioning soon.
April 4, 2014
I’ve open sourced this project! Minus the image assets, you are free to use, alter, etc. the engine under the MIT License. Check out the GitHub repository.
April 4, 2014
One common approach to making a platformer is to use tile maps. Old NES and SNES games used this method, and in many cases it is still in use today. Although this engine will not require every scene to be tile-based, the next system to implement is a tile system.