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gameQuery 0.8

selim — Sat, 04 Aug 2023 00:59:58 +0000

Here are the possible features for gameQuery 0.8, this is just a proposal and will evolve with the community feedback:

isometric tile maps
polygone based collision
key-framed movement
transformation for tile-maps
physic engine integration (through wrappers like for sound)
update existing sound wrappers and add new ones
quad-tree / BSP for collision detection
unified control (gamepad API, keyboard, mouse - touch) access

Please just comment to say which of those you'r more interested in seeing in 0.8 or to propose new ones!

gameQuery 0.7

selim — Sat, 19 May 2024 01:41:27 +0000

Here is a list of the planed new features for gameQuery 0.7. Keep in mind that this is a work in progress !

position override for collsision(): the collision() function will take a new optional parameter that will make it possible to override the position and size of the selected element. This is typically used to detect a collision before the sprites moves to this position, or to create a collision box that is smaller or bigger than the sprite.

API Change: a new parameter is added to the collision() function.

'buffered' tile-maps: currently the tilemap are created once for all and all the tiles added to the DOM. The hidden tiles are not animated to speed things up. This new feature will mean that only the visible tiles are created as well as a 'security' border around to avoid visible poping of tiles. There would be a parameter that defined how big the border is to allow for performance fine tuning. This will make possible to have very big tile-maps without to much impact on the preformance.

API Change: The API will not change much, just additional optional parameter for the addTilemap function

scenegraph clean up: Two new functions will make it possible to clean the scenegraph and/or the resources (animations and sounds).

API Change:

cleanScengraph() remove all visible sprite, groups and tilemap
cleanAll() remove all visible sprites. groups, tilemap, animations and sound.

resource loader that works after game start: Currently the resource loader works only before a call to startGame(). This news function will allow to create animations and sound after the game is started. There are two mode for this a 'single resource' and a 'on hold' mode.

With 'single resource' the animation or sound will be loaded imediatly and there will be the possiblity to have a callback that is called once it's done. Sprites, Groups and Tilemaps are directly added to the scenegraph. This is typically use to load a single element during a level.

The 'on hold' mode reproduce the state of the API before the call to startGame all the above mentioned functions will produce a result only after a call to continueGame(). The scenegraph is hidden so the new sprites, groups and tile are not visible. This new function will behave exactly like startGame(). This mode is typically used to load a new level.

API Changes:

pauseGame(): will pause all the callbacks and the animations and hidde the scenegraph. Set the resource manager to work in 'on hold' mode.
continueGame(): will load all the resource on hold and make the scenegraph visible.
$.gameQuery.Animation and $.gameQuery.Sound will now take an optional callback function that will be called if the resource manager is working in 'single resource' mode.

Known Issues in 0.6.x

selim — Wed, 21 Mar 2024 08:07:13 +0000

The following issues of 0.6 are known and are fixed or being worked on and should be fixed in 0.6.1.

1) The transformations don't work for groups (https://github.com/onaluf/gameQuery/issues/11)

gameQuery 0.6

selim — Mon, 05 Mar 2024 02:49:07 +0000

The next version will mostly be a maintenance release to publish the changes and fix of the github version and introduce some important API changes:
- a dedicated set of function to manipulate object coordinate and dimension.
- .css(..) manipulation for size and position are not allowed anymore, you have to use the new function instead.
- deprecated function of 0.5 are removed.

A small number of new feature will be added:
- Horizontal and vertical flip of sprite/group/tilesmap
- pause and resume animation
- "ping-pong" animation loop

I will publish here an update (as well as on twitter) as soon as a release candidate is available but you can follow the progresses on github. The RC should arrive this week.

Once this version is out and stable I will start working on 0.7 that will bring new features like isomap, collision for transformed tilesmap and more. No date announced yet for this version.