LGCK Builder: Game Construction Kit

LGCK BUILDER

Description

A free all-in-one game construction kit targeted to be both powerful yet simple to use. Provide a standard framework that allows users to create just about any kind of games. LGCK strives to be a compromise between fast execution and ease of use.

0.6.0.9

- EDITOR: FontWizard lets you import system fonts

- ENGINE: overlays now support multiline text

- ENGINE: overlays can have custom fonts

- ENGINE: major code clean up

- ENGINE: abstracted keys and buttons

- ENGINE: added Countdowns

- EDITOR: mark/unmark all goals matching a sprite

- EDITOR: added debug output window

- EDITOR: tile paint, eraser modes added

- EDITOR: show TriggerKeys in editor

- EDITOR: added Project Assistant that report and help fix common design errors

- EDITOR: added sample sprite to New Games

- EDITOR: replaced QScintilla with a native Qt solution

- EDITOR: added GamePad support

- EDITOR: lgck builder can export sprite meta (proto)

- EDITOR: customize multiselection

- EDITOR: new Overlay type Counter

- EDITOR: added coins, lives and ammo bonuses

- EDITOR: integrating player fire bullet w/ editSprite

- EDITOR: added skill filter

- EDITOR: added sprite search to Toolbox

- TOOLS: migrated to qt 5.15

- LUA: display_setFlagXY, display_setFont, display_setSource

- LUA: countdown_set, countdown_start, countdown_stop

- LUA: spriteIdFromUuid, sprite_freezeAll, sprite_unfreezeAll

- BUG FIX: onleftClick/onRightClick doesn't work anymore

0.6.0.8

- EDITOR: added portable option to package bundle (windows)

- EDITOR: added export game UI dialog

- EDITOR; replaced setup from InnoSetup with AdvancedInstaller

- EDITOR: added manifests to satisfy windows app cert kit

- EDITOR: new warnings for no player and no goal

- EDITOR: lgck-builder and obl5edit can now be associated with files

- EDITOR: tigher integration between lgck builder and obl5edit

- ENGINE: SFML runtime completed

- TOOLS: migrated gui to qt 5.10.1

- BUG FIX: ScriptWiz displayed incorrectly in Windows

- BUG FIX: uninitialized font causing game to crash (critical) introduced in 0.6.0.6

- BUG FIX: export game wasn't including musics

- BUG FIX: testing empty level was causing a crash

0.6.0.7

• EDITOR: builder can export sprites (obl, png)

• EDITOR: runtime integration with the IDE

• EDITOR: improved LGCK builder performance on low-end hardware

• ENGINE: new level event: OnIntroDraw

• ENGINE: snapshot_clear()

• LUA: System Call - ss_notifyAll()

• TOOLS: Updated the gui to run on qt5.7 (replaced qglwidget w/ qopenglwidget)

• TOOLS: easydocs - introducted the concept of alias and improve the ui

• BUG FIX: lua script not always regenerated after an event was modified

• BUG FIX: when a snapshot is taken and restored the next level may be replaced by the snapsnot

• BUG FIX: LGCK builder would crash when no opengl2.0 driver were present

• BUG FIX: lgckdb would become corrupt when core libraries were compiled against GCC 4.x+

0.6.0.6

• ENGINE: replaced scene list w/ ptr

• ENGINE: new events: Level.onHandler, Level.onGoalKilled

• ENGINE: added borderColor, introBkColor, introTextColor

• ENGINE: added experimental barebone runtimes (opengl, SDL, SFML)

• ENGINE: new game events: onPickup(), onSaveGame(), onLoadGame()

• ENGINE: new game events: onRestartLevel(), onNotifyClosure()

• ENGINE: new sprite event: EO_NOTIFYCLOSURE

• ENGINE: new level event: EL_NOTIFYCLOSURE

• ENGINE: custom scrolling layers (see layer_setOffset)

• ENGINE: tied EL_RESTART event with snapshot_reload

• ENGINE: replaced FTGL w/ lgck's own font rendering code

• ENGINE: added colorMod (primary light source)

• EDITOR: added scriptWizard

• EDITOR: autoupdater to check for new versions

• EDITOR: edit raw path (sprite)

• EDITOR: GUI to resize font size in the editor pane

• EDITOR: SpriteWiz waypoint added

• EDITOR: added Edit Images pop-menu item for sprites

• EDITOR: testLevel nows allows to play a full game

• LUA: updateJoyState()

• LUA: callGameEvent(), sprite_unmarkAsGoal()

• LUA: sprite:get(), sprite_set()

• LUA: sprite:get()/set() can access EXTRA_XXXX values directly

• LUA: sprite:hitTest()

• LUA: display_sizeText(), Display:sizeText()

• LUA: ss_drawText(), ss_paint(), ss_paintImage(), ss_clear()

• LUA: Counters:inc(), Counters:dec(), Counters:add()

• LUA: warpTo(), strv_get(), strv_set(), strv_del()

• LUA: snapshot_take(), snapshot_reload()

• LUA: layer_setOffsetX(), layer_setOffsetY()

• LUA: SHL(), SHR(), ss_notifyClosure()

• BUG FIX: When more than 10 Displays active, only the last one is displayed

• BUG FIX: random crash when sprite is added to main layer

0.6.0.5

• ENGINE: customs strings for each sprite instance

• EDITOR: migrated to qt5

• EDITOR: GUI to change default frame per sprite

• EDITOR: toolbox playSound() menu item

• EDITOR: customizable shortcuts for LGCK Builder

• EDITOR: GUI for toolbars (main, level, layer)

• EDITOR: GUI for path creation

• ENGINE: custom paths for each sprite

• ENGINE: up to four fwClass sprites can share the same map location

• ENGINE: hidden inventory item flag

• ENGINE: reimplemented the collision map w/ std::unordered_map

• ENGINE: interfaces w/ implementers: Graphic, Sound and Music

• ENGINE: replaced SFML::Graphics w/ OpenGL

• ENGINE: replaced SFML::Music w/ SDL::Music

• ENGINE: replaced SFML::Sound w/ SDL

• ENGINE: added Counters (that can be accessed via scripting)

• ENGINE: significantly improved level load time

• ENGINE: added events: Game:onGoalKilled and Level:onGoalKilled

• ENGINE: added Level UUID

• ENGINE: improved center on screen during action

• LUA: sprite:frameCount(), frameSet_getSize

• LUA: Sprite:getString(), Sprite:isFrozen(), Sprite:isGoal()

• LUA: Counters:get(), Counters:set()

• BUG FIX: layer element count is wrong for FW/BK layers

• BUG FIX: on wrap arround screens, viewport moves unexpectely

• BUG FIX: clearALL button now behaves as expected

• BUG FIX: keyDown msg continued infinitely when focus was lost

*** 0.6.0.4

• ENGINE: layers can be moved by position

• EDITOR: importImage can now splice images

• EDITOR: importImageWiz added

• EDITOR: added gamewiz first version

• EDITOR: added copy, cut, paste and delete to levelView

• EDITOR: spritewiz added playerbullet template

• LUA: added Sprite:width(), Sprite:height()

• LUA: added Sprite:childCount(), Sprite:setOwner()

• ENGINE: player.onHandler called in managePlayer()

• ENGINE: added sprite activation policy (auto, userdef)

• BUG FIX: spritewiz now properly displays image size (mask: 9999x9999)

• TOOLS: included is the new OBL5EDIT sprite editor to replace OBL4EDIT

• TOOLS: OBL5t updated to support new OBL5 format

0.6.0.3

• EDITOR: edit pan can be resized

• BUG FIX: animations weren't cleared when sprite was deleted

0.6.0.2

• ENGINE: antigravity flag extends to monsters

• ENGINE: added solidity concept (overide)

• EDITOR: added sound tab to SpriteWizard

• ENGINE: added multiselection

• BUG FIX: Spelling error, "Brint to front" (reported by Tim)

• BUG FIX: Menu not updated when sprite dragged (reported by Tim)

• BUG FIX: WINXP crash when sprite was dropped on empty pane (reported by Tim)

• BUG FIX: next button greyed out in SpriteWiz

0.6.0.1a

• BUG FIX: crash cause by bad sprite mapping

• BUG FIX: crash when no player object was present

0.6.0.1

• ENGINE: fixed CPath array so it can grow

• ENGINE: added seed uid for all sprites

• ENGINE: added Game:OnCompleteLevel

• EDITOR: implemented continuity (test game)

• BUG FIX: fixed a few mapping bugs introduced in 0.5.0.7

• BUG FIX: icon incorrect modified in SpriteList

• EDITOR: SpriteWizard updated with many new pages

• ENGINE: added antigravity flag for all fwClass objects

• ENGINE: added automatic goal flag

• BUG FIX: misaligned sprites on grid

• ENGINE: nosplat flag extended to objects

• ENGINE: implemented monster/object rebirth

• BUG FIX: deleting the last and only level resulted in a crash (fixed)

0.6.0.0

• LUA: MIN(), MAX(), testKey(), setKey()

• LUA: getLastKey(), clearKeys()

• ENGINE: new Event: level.onKeyPressed

• ENGINE: new Event: level.onKeyUp

• ENGINE: improved qt keyReflector

• EDITOR: source editor w/ word completion and colored syntax

• EDITOR: sprite event dialog replaced with inline editor

• BUG FIX: fixed an error in obl5t (frameSet.cpp)

0.5.0.9

• GUI: added a new toolbox to drag&drop sprites on the level

• GUI: added popup menu to spriteBox

• GUI: added popup menu to LevelView

• GUI: added checkmarks to sprite event combo

• BUG FIX: png transparency bug in obl5t

• BUG FIX: unMap bug w/ random attacker

• ENGINE: OBL5 format moved to version 0x501

• TOOLS: obl5t merged now uses the shared libraries

0.5.0.8a

• LUA: added clearSprite(), openStream(), playStream(), stopStream()

• BUG FIX: gui menu item next/prev level not enabled/disabled correctly

• EDITOR: during import now asks about transparency when the image has none set

• EDITOR: changing imagetSet for an object remove all animation sequences

• EDITOR: create imageSet button added to objectProp sheet

• CODE: began early work on KDE conversion phase

• TOOLS: easyDoc got a facelift today. Most dialogs now resize correctly

0.5.0.8

• ENGINE: added CMusic class to handle streaming music (ogg)

• ENGINE: more reorganization of the code

• ENGINE: added closureTime, closureEvent

• ENGINE: added Level property : music

• BUG FIX: windows-setup now uses static build (ati issue on win7)

0.5.0.7

• ENGINE: Created CActor which replaces CLevelEntry at runtime.

• ENGINE: reorganized the code to be more OO-like

• ENGINE: added NO_SPLAT flag to prevent player from crushing monsters

• ENGINE: added properties max active bullets, fire rate

• ENGINE: improved the collision detection code

• ENGINE: maxFall property now applies to monster

• ENGINE: bullet to monster attack now do damage

• LUA: added isHidden(), isDead(), land(), triggerHitState()

• LUA: added isMonster(), getPlayerC(), getPlayer()

• LUA: added tryPath(), stopAnimation(), callObjEvent(), killSprite(), spawn()

• EDITOR: added menu items: view source, edit object

• EDITOR: new shortcuts F9 and SHIFT-F9 (edit local, edit object)

0.5.0.6

• GUI: added status text to all implemented menu items

• LUA: added setImage(), getImage(), Sprite:SetImage()

• LUA: added setState(), findSprite(), alert()

• LUA: added getExtra(), getExtraC(), getExtraUID()

• LUA: added triggerPlayerHitState()

• LUA: added hitTest(), hitTestC()

• LUA: added Extra class to provide access to sprites runtime data (readonly)

• ENGINE: onZKEY event called for player object when Z-KEY is pressed

• ENGINE: ZKeyTrigger class no longer changes the image of the source object

• ENGINE: noChangeAtDeath flag to preserve sprite corpses

• ENGINE: three jump modes available (VLA3, GIANA and MIXED)

• BUG FIX: hitTest logic not working in some cases

VLA3: is the engine default; you need to press JUMP + AIM
GIANA: press UP to jump and move LEFT/RIGHT
MIXED: press JUMP and move LEFT/RIGHT

The biggest difference between GIANA and MIXED is that the later also lets you
climb ladders. :D

0.5.0.5

• GUI: added pause/restart/debug menu items.

• GUI: added splash screen

• BUG FIX: exiting the game from the menu corrupts the imageSets

• BUG FIX: UI for animation (add, duplicate and delete) showing wrong tooltips

• BUG FIX: a monster repeating animation prevents 'death sequence'

• BUG FIX: player sprite disapears from view when killed (animSeq bug)

• ENGINE: maxFall now an object property (player only atm)

• ENGINE: added game.prepareLevel() event

• ENGINE: added object.mouseClickLeft and object.mouseClickRight events

• DEMOS: updated the demos

0.5.0.4a

• GUI: new icons curtosy of Ronnie Edwards

• BUG FIX: player hurt animation not running

• BUG FIX: animation doesn't switch to UP while default animation running (loop)

• BUG FIX: skill level not initialized properly through gui (editor)

• BUG FIX: layer UI not updated correctly in editor

• BUG FIX: class_immediatly_deadly not working

• BUG FIX: player can be hurt after being killed

• BUG FIX: player leaves the viewport

• BUF FIX: mysterious crash condition reported by model76 (windows only)

• LUA: Inventory Class

• LUA: addToInventory(), removeFromInventory(), hasItem() and resetInventory()

• LUA: getSkill() (alias for SKILL)

• ENGINE: fallSpeed now an object property

• CODE: reorganized some files to speed up compilation time

0.5.0.4

- ENGINE: added custom animation sequences for all objects

• ENGINE: per player object jump paths

• LUA: tryAnimation()

• LUA: setBkColor, setBkColorC

• LUA: getBkColor, getBkColorC

• LUA: setLookUp, getLookUp

• LUA: setLevelGoal, getLevelGoal

• LUA: getTicks(), ticks()

• LUA: getSpriteCount()

• LUA: newColor

• LUA: copySpriteC, copySprite

• etc.

• DEMOS: updated the demos to use the latest features

0.5.0.3

- BUG FIX: an application crash when an imageSet is added to a fresh database.

0.5.0.2

- ENGINE: implemented optional lookup/lookdn

• ENGINE: added new scroll ratio 1/2 and 1/4

• ENGINE: per level game speed (1-200)

• ENGINE: systemClass demoted to ObjectInvisibleTag

• ENGINE: added foreground layers and support scripting functions

• LUA: setWrapFlag()

• LUA: getWrapFlag()

• LUA: hasGravity()

• LUA: new Layer and Element class

• TOOLS: include a copy of obl5t

• TOOLS: include a copy of EasyDoc ???

0.5.0.1a

**- implemented wrap around

• fixed monster ai in gravity free mode

Feedback

Comments, suggestions and constructive feedback are welcomed and encouraged. :D
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