JoRes Game Engine

Ever since I started coding, I've been making games. Most of my projects would start with me reprogramming these game components:

1. Collision detection
2. Level data structure, almost always block-based
3. Basic application flow

So instead of programming these same components over and over I've condensed them into my own game engine and level designer so I can focus on programming the unique parts of these games.

Try out the sample game

1. Requires Grunt 0.4+ and a web browser that supports HTML5 canvas
2. Clone git repo and run grunt task 'build'
3. Open ../sample/play.html

Try out the GameCreator (early early dev.)

1. Requires Grunt 0.4+ and a web browser that supports HTML5 canvas
2. Clone git repo and run grunt task 'build'
3. Copy rsc folder from ../sample to ../dist
4. Open ../dist/gameCreator.html

How it's done

1. Build JoResEngine.js and add the script from ../dist to your webpage.

   <script type="text/javascript" src="JoResEngine.js"></script> 

   Your page must have a canvas element with id "JoRes-target".

   <canvas id="JoRes-target"></canvas>

2. Create an instance of the Engine.

   var joRes = new JoResEngine();

3. Override the default menu and load screen.

   joRes.load(['MyMenu.js', 'MyLoadScreen.js']);

4. Add the relative level data and image paths for JoRes to find.

   joRes.setLevelPath('myLevels/level*.js');
   joRes.setImgPath('myImages/*.png');

5. Start!

   joRes.start();

Todo before Release

1. Add audio modules
   • music
     • loading
     • starting / pausing / stoping
     • volume and (?)stereo control
   • sound effects
2. Complete LevelCreator and Leveldata data format
   • paralax scrolling background
   • foregrounds
   • Add entity and unit support
   • Optization
   • Add default settings/properties file
3. Complete HUD
   • Add scoreboard and points module
   • Add statistics to track in game actions
   • Add pause and setting screen
4. Add docs
   • Tutorials with screenshots on how to use
   • Docs on how to create units and blocks

History

Over the past decade I've collected maybe a hundred half-started coding projects. This began as a platformer game and was re-adopted in March 2016. Decemeber 2016 development was resumed and I decided to convert the project into a stand alone Game Engine.