ArcadeMakerSources/ArcadeMaker

Latsetly I added the ability to deploy games to Android. The engine should be fully cross-platform in the end (the monogame backend allows exporting to pretty much any platform except for the web - and a web support is planned to be added soon too), but until the last few days, you could deploy your games to windows only. But now I added a deploy-to-android option. Currently, the only available input function that the engine provides for touch screens is getTouchCollections(), which returns an array of all the currently touched locations on the screen. And even though with a little effort it might be enough for basic things: (made with the engine) A joystick is still a really needed control for a lot of games. So, the TouchJoystick class should be added to ArcadeMaker.Core/ExpSrc/Controls and support a few types of joysticks: one that can move 360 degrees, one that can only move to right/left/up/down, and one that can also combine up+right/up+left/down+right/down+left. And it should

Showing health points (or other variables) in a bar is a popular design pattern in games: +--------------------------+ ||||||||| 80 |||||||| | +--------------------------+ A built-in function for this would be really helpful. The engine already has drawRect(x1, y1, x2, y2, [outline], [thickness]), drawText(x, y, text), getTextWidth(text) and getTextHeight(text) functions, so they can be used by our new function to draw the bar and the value in the center of the bar. I want the function to have this signature: drawHealthbar(x1, y1, x2, y2, fullCol, emptyCol, frameCol, value, min, max). The bar should be filled with a color that as value is going lower, the color becomes closer to emptyCol, and as value is going higher, the color becomes closer to fullCol, so if emptyCol is red and fullCol is green, then when value is 100 (supposing that min is 0 and max is 100), the bar color will be green, when value is 10 the bar color will be almost-red, when value is 50 the bar color will be o

Sometimes we want want to draw a specific area of an image - for example, imagine that we have a portal wall in the game, which when moving into it it's launching you to another place in the room, and you want to have the effect of moving only the area of the object that has alredy collided with the portal, so you render half of it in the portal and half in the other exit (hope you get it 😅). Anyway, we want to implement drawPartialSprite(spriteID, imageIndex, x, y partX, partY, partWidth, partHeight, [angle], [alpha]). the function declaration should be added to ArcadeMaker.Core/IGame.Funcs.cs: /// <summary>Draws a specific part of a sprite</summary> [EngineFunc(8)] [Param("spriteID", ParamType.Number, "The ID of the sprite to draw. Can be accessed by referencing 'Sprites.spr_name'.")] // rest of the parameters... Exp.Void DrawPartialSprite(Exp.Instance? _, IValue?[] args); And the implementation needs to happen in Engines/MonoGame/Core/ArcadeMakerMonoGame.cs. ArcadeMaker uses tex

The engine currently lacks some basic primitive drawing functions, including triangles. The MonoGame backend is referencing the MonoGame.Extended package, which provides the necessary functionality for rendering triangles. So the goal is to add a function drawTriangle(x1, y1, x2, y2, x3, y3, outline. The function signature should be declared at ArcadeMaker.Core/Igame.Funcs.cs: /// <Summary> /// Draws a triangle. /// </Summary> [EngineFunc(7)] [Param("x1", ParamType.Number, "The x value of the first point in the triangle.")] // Same for the rest of the params Exp.Void DrawTriangle(Exp.Instance? _, IValue?[] args); And the implementation should be added to Engines/MonoGame/Core/ArcadeMakerMonoGame.cs: public Exp.Void DrawTriangle(Exp.Instance? _, IValue?[] args) { double x1 = args[0].ThrowIfNull().Number; // same for rest of the coordinates parameters bool outline = args[6].ThrowIfNull().Bool; // your draw logic return Exp.Void.Return; } And finally, a futile implement

ArcadeMaker should be a cross platform engine, and it should allow targetting mobile devices. Currently, the engine provides functions for getting input from mouse and keyboard (like keyDown(key) and getMouseX() and so on), but it still lacks basic functions for touch panels input. MonoGame, of couse, provides this functionality, so in order to add it to ArcadeMaker, the same patterns should be impemented: Declaring the engine functions (e.g. getTocuhPositions() and isTouching(x, y, maxDistance) in the IGame interface (ArcadeMaker.Core/IGame.Funcs.cs). The declarations should look like this: /// <summary> /// Checks if the player is currently touching a specific point. /// </summary> [EngineFunc(/*num of params: */ 3)] [Param("x", ParamType.Number, "The x to check for touching at.")] [Param("y", ParamType.Number, "The y to check for touching at.")] [Param("maxDistance", ParamType.Number, "The range for the check.")] IValue IsTouching(Exp.Instance? _, IValue?[] args); Write the back