Old Style Game Framework

Game Framework

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Revisions

• Changes in Version 1.3 from 1.2
  • Consolidate BounceAnimation and BouceOnceAnimation into one class.
• Changes in Version 1.2 from 1.1
  • Movement:
    • Add new ScriptEasingAction for easing in and out from a location.
    • Add new ScriptMovementActions. RepeatedScriptMovementAction and ScriptEllipseDirectionAction.
  • Rename GameStatable to GameStateControlling.
  • Changed to use varargs instead of array for setting motion and animation in Actor and cell numbrs in ImageFactory.
• Changes in Version 1.1 from 1.0
  • Components:
    • Add GWindowFactory for creating WindowContainers. New classes for Window borders.
    • Add padding to TableContainer.
    • Add Alignment enum
    • GTextContainer: add background and overlay animations, with preDraw and postDraw methods for drawing them. Add a base GText in text components for common elements.
    • GScrollingLabel and GScrollingParagraph add setting speed, extend GTextContainer.
    • GButton update for when object changes, it will invalidate and revalidate before rendering.
    • Remove setting Monitored on components, as it was not used.
    • GParagraph updates and improvements.
    • Fix GToggleButton's enabling and bounds.
    • Component refactoring and improvements.
  • Movement:
    • Add ControlledMovement.
    • Move Randomness movements out of Wander classes.
    • Create BaseKeyMovement and BaseMouseMovement.
    • Move common methods into BaseMovement.
    • PathFinding: Add PathFindingMouseMovement.
    • Movement classes refacoring, including removing Actor class in favor of GameLocation of parent.
  • Sprites:
    • Add SpriteAction and SpriteListener, for notifying when sprites perform a user defined action.
    • Add static method in Actor, getEmptyActor(), for a blank do nothing Actor.
  • Animation:
    • Add a TextAnimtian.
    • Add ShapeAnimation base class for shape animations.
    • Animation refactoring.
  • GameMap: Renderers:
    • Separate out tiles (Decor) from Sprites in FreeStyleMaps.
    • Create FreeStyleLayeredMap, a FreestyleMap with layers. WIth LayeredMapRender and ScrollFreeStyleRenderer.
    • Encapsulate sprite list of TileMap into SpriteList2D and SpriteList3D,.
    • Fix for Background classes.
    • Reworked FreeStyleRenderer and ScrollFreeStyleRenderer.
  • Input:
    • Update Actions to notify Components first, and then stop processing if components consume action.
    • Add MousePolling to the Actions class.
    • Add wiring in GameTimer's that implement InputListener on construction.
    • Move Direction enum to its own class.
    • GameMap: Add autowiring for InputMouseListners in GameMap. Update to default the player to an EmptyActor.
    • Move Mouse enum into its own class.
  • ImageFactory:
    • Fix, implement ImageEffects, for ColorizeImage, RotateImage, TranslucentImage.
    • ImageFactory: improvements. Add a MediaTracker to ImageFactory. Improved rotation. Creating image of rectangle color.
  • Debugging on Game: Create into its own project.
    • Create new DebugGameCanvas and Console for dugging game while it is running.
    • Set to dynamically set the keys for frame advancement
    • Add container for displaying frame rates.
    • Improved ManualGameTimer.
  • Layout improvements for Layout classes. Adding Alignment.
  • Fix full screen mode.
  • update to Java 1.8
  • Update to use Java 1.5's String.format() method.
  • Add GameStatable interface to improve using GameState.
  • Remove GamePanel and OldStyleGameFrame, in favor of GameCanvas.
  • Implement GameTimerAware to move the update, render and paint methods from GameTimer to be a part of the GameCanvas.
  • Add RandomUtils.
  • Clean up and updated JavaDocs.
  • Improved tests.