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DISCLAIMER: this is marketing-team stuffs. Features are still in-development and may not be available.

TODO: cleanup

The Engine is custom built to suit the needs most. Following list is our aims:

  • Reasonable performance on vast world, on JVM

    • At least better than Notch's codes...

  • Thread scalability

    • Multithreaded environments are commonplace in this era; even in the Intel Pentium G. We aim to introduce performance boost by supporting multithreads, without the limitation of threads count (hopefully).

  • Lightweight physics solver, as light as we need

    • This game is not exactly a physics toy, albeit some could add the fun.
    • Currently implemented: gravity (NOT artificial), friction, buoyancy (WIP), air/fluid density and termination velocity
    • Planned: artificial gravitation, wind, joints

  • Cellular Automata fluid simulation

    • It should be enough — period.

Because of this, we just couldn't use solutions out there. For example, Tiled is too slow[citation needed] and has large memory footprint[citation needed] for our vast world; we can't use JBox2d nor Dyn4j as we don't need any sophisticated physics simulation, and can't use them anyway as we have literally millions of rigid bodies (tiles) and actors. (Trivia: we do use Dyn4j's Vector2 class)

General-Purpose Side-Scroller Game Maker

The Engines is specialised in side-scrolling platformers with controls specific to

The Engine is designed with modularity in mind — every game runs upon the Engine is individual module(s), and you can write your own module to alter the original game (module), essentially a game "mod" (put intended).

Actors

The Engine allows Actors (NPCs) to have AIs

Sprites

The Engine allows up to 64 sprite layers that are either software- or hardware-blended

Multilingual Support

The Engine can support any arbitrary language, as long as there is fonts for them. A default font is shipped with the Engine, and it already supports 20+ languages.

Utilities

The Engine also comes with various utilities to help the game making bit easier. They include:

  • Savegame generator/loader
  • Password system (old games used password system to load/save the gameplay)
  • CSV loader (e.g. Item properties)
  • Json loader/saver
  • Text cipher