iPhone Application Development
March 21, 2014
While implementing the circle colliders, I decided to do some refactoring of the collision system. Most notably, I’ve added two vectors, resolution and impulse, to keep track of the minimum displacement needed to resolve the collision and the impulse that needs to be applied to the colliding entities.
March 19, 2014
Before we can safely make our entities move, we need a way to make them stop. To accomplish this goal, the next thing to implement is a collision system. There are a few considerations to make, such as what types of collisions our collision system should support and what shapes we will use.
March 15, 2014
I’m working on a post to describe the collision system. I’ve implemented a simple rectangle collision, but am adding support for circle collisions as well. I’m also playing around with some options on mass and elasticity. Once I’ve determined all of that, I’ll have a post ready!
March 14, 2014
At this point, we have a solid framework, an engine core to kick off the game loop, and a sprite system to render and animate graphics. The next step is to make our entities mobile.
March 11, 2014
Now that the ECS framework is in place, I will begin implementing some basic systems to use in a game. These systems will include everything necessary to create a simple game, handling input, physics, collisions, and rendering. A developer may choose to implement his own systems if greater complexity or different behavior is required.