PATCH NOTES - 0.1.0

Aug 18, 2023

New features

Assets Editor

Asset: Any resource used in your game:

• Items: Elements that stay in one place in the scenario, can interact with entities, but can't be moved.

• Entities: The player, enemies, NPCs. Basically everything that can move freely.

• Materials: Elements that you can use to build an scenario, could be floor, ceiling, walls, or even fluids like water or lava.

• Background: Image that appears behind your game.

Assets Editor

Change asset type

View asset dimensions (TODO: enable edit)

Animation controls

Select edition tools

See the list of assets / edit asset / edit color palette

Scrollable color palette

List of assets

Assets Editor

Area selection for editing

Move frames across the timeline

Draw / erase tools (icons are placeholders)

Animation navigation controls

Pick your desired color

Interactions mode toggle

(draw detection areas for different interactions)

Assets Editor

Materials and background:

In progress

We accept feedback and suggestions to make those areas

Console

How games work in Gamebit?

Events

Can be emmited from different sources:

• Scene events:
  • Game started
  • Scene variable changed
• Entity events:
  • Interaction with detection zones (from items, materials, or other entities)
  • Entity variable changed

Variables

We can maintain variables from different scopes:

• Global variables
• Scene variables
• Entity variables

Scenes

You can use scenes to separate sections in your game, most common examples are:

• Press start screen
• Actual game
• Game over screen

Console

How games work in Gamebit?

Effects

Effects listen to an event under some conditions, and execute an action using fixed values or values that the event provided, example:

• When the user push the arrows, the player entity will move

Actions

Actions are a set of predefined functions that allow you to modify properties of scenes / palette / entities / items / materials like:

• Colors
• Position
• Size
• Show / Hide
• Modify variables

Console

How games work in Gamebit?

Game

Press Start

Start pressed

Effect

Listening to:

Executing:

Change scene:

Play

Set global variable:

Lives: 3

Set global variable:

Score: 0

Play

Global variable: Lives

Effect

Listening to:

Executing:

Change scene:

Game Over

Set global variable:

Score: 0

Condition: Lives = 0

Game Over

Time passed

Effect

Listening to:

Executing:

Change scene:

Press Start

Condition: > 5 sec

Events

Variables

Scenes

Effects

Actions

Console

State of dev:

Events

Variables

Scenes

Effects

Actions

• Game engine currently working with one fixed scene

• Assets are being loaded from scratch for each scene, need to be improved

• Variables are implemented and being used in the game engine

• We need a way to set and see variables when you are making your game 

• Events are implemented and being used in the game

• You can launch entity and item / material events by drawing interaction zones, we need a way to set relevant interactions to trigger events only for them

• Effects are implemented and being used in the game engine

• We need an UI interface to set them

• We have a basic set of actions being used already

• We need to grow the set of actions based on what we see that is needed

Absence of events make the player to ignore the item

Action of moving background already implemented

Entity gravity is being controlled by entity variables (velY) and global variables (gravity)

Events being emmited by the interaction of the player with the material

Console interface to deal with different screen sizes (could change)

Controls already emmiting events

Console

State of dev:

DEMO

Upcoming features

Assets Editor

Add controls for adding and removing frames

Improve design of tabs and timeline

Use proper icons

Enable color picker

Add a menu for filtering items by category and display them paginated

Make editor canvas to be bigger, and move interactions mode toggle outside of this section

Provide a way to inspect variable values runtime

Implement settings UI for making buttons bigger / smaller

Performance improvements

Make a better demo for showing buttons working

Add a button to exit the screen

Provide a way to publish your games away from the app, so others can play them with a QR code

Console

Maps Editor

Selection area for the whole level / scene

Show / hide / select layer

Resize level / scene

Import assets previously made on assets editor

Modify asset properties

Editing tools