It has been a long while since I released an update of Booty5, but at last it is here. A good fellow over at Droidscript got in touch to let me know that they had added a plugin for their awesome app (check it out to see what I mean by awesome) which enables developers to develop games using the Booty5 API directly on an Android device and / or via a desktop browser, which to me is coolness of a higher degree. I had planned a release of Booty5 to push out the latest changes to the engine as well as support for texture packer trimmed bitmaps amongst other things so I went ahead and interfaced the Booty5 editor directly with the Droidscript app allowing games to be sent directly to Droidscript and played on the device. This provides a very rapid development environment directly on device.
The changes for this release include:
- By setting the host in project settings to the wifi address supplied to you by the Droidscript app and checking the Droidscript checkbox, you can run your projects directly on a connected Android device
- Updated to the very latest Booty5 engine which includes support for features like tasks, events and smaller exported scene data
- Open in IDE no longer opens in WebStorm by default, instead Visual Studio Code is used
- Projects no longer deploy separate source files, instead booty5_debug.js or booty5_min.js are deployed
- Socket.io can now be exported with projects
- New export location added to project properties that allows you to specify where deployed files will go when running / testing
- Host project property added which allows deployed projects to launch a specific host url when running / testing
- Added two new canvas fit modes, Fit Greatest / Fit Smallest
- Added Body and Head properties to project properties, additional html can be added here to be exported in the body and head sections of the html file
- Added nodejs command prompt button
- Fixed crash bug when creating a label with no font
- Added animation sets to brushes
- Removed animation frames, start frame and playback speed from actors, you now specify the animation name to play as default
- Get actor size will now get brush size if no geometry attached
Note that the Booty5 plugin for Droidscript is currently in beta (see the beta group for more details.)
The manual and API documentation have also been updated so please don’t forget to view / grab them.
The changes to the Booty5 engine v1.5.2 include:
- Added support for events and event notification (see b5.EventsManager)
- Added support for tasks (see b5.TasksManager)
- Added support to brushes for animation sets
- Added support to actors for working with brush animation sets (see b5.Actor.playAnim)
- Bitmap based actors now support trimmed atlas images
- Image based actors that use an atlas will use the size of the atlas frame, can be overridden by setting ignore_atlas_size to true
- Removed support for web Marmalade
- All booty5 scene data is now loaded into the b5.data space instead of window
- Xoml data property names have been minified to greatly cut down Xoml datas format storage size
- Added polyfill for RequestAnimationFrame to support older browsers
- Some examples have been updated to fix various issues
Booty5 is a free Javascript based HTML5 game engine available on Github and a fully fledged game / app editor available for free. See the Booty5 HTML5 game maker website for more details.
Happy coding, don’t forget to leave feedback and report issues on Facebook / Google+ etc…