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Here the different packages:

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Here a short overview of the high level API and its architecture (only main items are listed here):

• Standard tools

  • Featurable: Minimalist object representation with an unique ID, configurable, and handlable
  • Camera: Standard camera implementation, can follow an object
  • WorldGame: Standard game container, allowing to save & load a world easily
  • Cursor: In-game mouse representation, sync or async to the OS one
  • TextGame: Special text that can be used in a 2D game axis, automatically converted to the screen axis
  • Handler: Can handle an object list, in order to update & render them easily
    
  • Factory: Generic game object factory from an external configuration file

• Tile based map

  • map package: Standard tile based map representation with standard tile & map implementation

  • Collision system

    What about the collision process ?

    

  A tile is represented by:

  • [X,Y] (location on the map)
  • pattern (tilesheet id)
  • number (image id on tilesheet)

  Tilesheet	Map using the tilesheet

• Background system

  • BackgroundGame : Background representation, as a background elements container
  • BackgroundElementRastered : Support of RasterBar for the background

    Original	Effect

  • CloudsGame : Designed to create a simple clouds scrolling effect

    Original	Effect

  • Parallax : Designed to create a powerful parallax over a huge number of lines

    Original	Effect

• Factory system

  • Setup: Contains the unique resources that can be shared by objects instances
  • Factory: Create objects from their configuration file, giving the needed resources with their corresponding setup
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• Features package

  • Body: Support for gravity by simulating a mass
  • Collidable: Support for collision detection with other collidable
  • Rasterable: Support for RasterBar effect
  • Launchable : Allows to handle the projectile system
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  • Producible : Allows an entity to create new entities (construct buildings, produce entities...)
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• Tile utilities

  • Tile extractor: Allows to extract all unique tiles from a level rip
  • Level rip converter: Generates a level data from a level rip and its tile sheet

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Here an example of a platform game, highlighting some of the main components:

Here an example of a strategy game, highlighting some of the main components:

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Global UML architecture:

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