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| === Features === | === Features === | ||
| - | * Create 2D and 3D games that run on Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, and Palm WebOS in C++ | + | * Create games and apps that run on eight platforms in C++: OSX, Win, iOS, Android, WebOS, RIM Playbook, Linux, Flash |
| - | * Entire engine based on GL (OpenGL ES 1.X or standard Open GL modes) | + | * Entire engine based on GL (OpenGL ES 1.X or GL 1.3) |
| - | * System specifics are totally abstracted, hiding the gotchas and caveats of each platform | + | * **In App Purchase** integrated for iOS, Android, and webOS through a single interface (IAPManager) |
| - | * Scene graph component based system that handles game and GUI objects together (they are the same thing) | + | * Third party systems integrated: [[http://www.tapjoy.com|Tapjoy]], [[http://www.hookedmediagroup.com/Mobile/|Hooked]], [[http://www.chartboost.com/|Chartboost]], Startapp, [[http://www.flurry.com/|Flurry]] |
| + | * System specifics are abstracted, hiding the gotchas and caveats of each platform, while still harnessing the full power of the native hardware (for instance, hardware audio decoding) | ||
| * Sigslot based (with boost::signals) messaging system that lets you dynamically schedule calling entity and component functions, set variables | * Sigslot based (with boost::signals) messaging system that lets you dynamically schedule calling entity and component functions, set variables | ||
| - | * Supports screen stretching to fit any screen size, manual multiple resolution layouts, or a mixture of both | + | * Supports fake screen resolutions with stretching, so you can target only a few sizes and automatically scale up/down to the closest one |
| * Internal component based GUI system with menus, buttons, scrolling, text input (supporting hardware and soft keyboards) | * Internal component based GUI system with menus, buttons, scrolling, text input (supporting hardware and soft keyboards) | ||
| - | * Particle system (LinearParticle) | + | * 2D and 3D Particle system (LinearParticle for 2d, and Irrlicht for 3D) |
| - | * Font system supporting in-line coloring, kerning, scaling, wrapping. Imports BMFont generated fonts. | + | * Font system supporting in-line coloring, kerning, scaling, wrapping. Imports BMFont generated fonts. (no unicode yet..) |
| - | * Simple to use Sound Manager with smart caching and streaming. (Supports multiple implementations: AVAudioPlayer, FMOD, Android, Audiere, SDL_mixer) | + | * Simple to use AudioManager with smart caching, streaming, and per sfx controls. (Supports 6 implementations) |
| - | * Portrait and landscape mode support with rotation/flip | + | * Portrait and landscape modes support with rotation/flip (on some platforms) |
| - | * Automatic internal handling to get around power-of-2 texture limitations | + | * Automatic internal handling to seamlessly deal with power-of-2 texture limitations |
| * Socket and HTTP classes, in-game file downloading | * Socket and HTTP classes, in-game file downloading | ||
| * Powerful 2D image handling with scaling, tinting, rotation, animation | * Powerful 2D image handling with scaling, tinting, rotation, animation | ||
| - | * FileManager that transparently handles decompressing files when needed, supports mounting zips as filesystems | + | * FileManager that transparently handles decompressing files when needed, supports mounting zips as filesystems, automatically mounts Android .apks |
| - | * Touch screen, accelerometer, and vibration support | + | * Get abstracted input from touch, mouse, DInput, iCade, Xperia gamepad, 60Beat Gamepad, accelerometer. Supports multi-touch on most platforms including Win7/Win8 |
| - | * RTPack.exe command line tool intelligently handles image conversions to .rttex format, a wrapper that handles multiple formats (including .pvrct) | + | * RTPack command line tool intelligently handles image conversions to .rttex format, a wrapper that handles multiple formats including jpg and powerVR compression types |
| - | * Requires minimum outside dependencies for portability | + | * Requires minimum outside dependencies for portability, most are included (such as libjpg, libpng, a small subset of boost, etc) |
| * Large group of cross platform utility functions suitable for stealing if you want (Such as RemoveDirectoryRecursively, CreateDirectory Recursively, LaunchURL, etc) | * Large group of cross platform utility functions suitable for stealing if you want (Such as RemoveDirectoryRecursively, CreateDirectory Recursively, LaunchURL, etc) | ||
| * Supports premultiplied alpha, can optionally convert on load | * Supports premultiplied alpha, can optionally convert on load | ||
| * Separate "system" and "game" timers make pausing the game easy | * Separate "system" and "game" timers make pausing the game easy | ||
| - | * Built-in database system can serialize to/from storage | + | * Built-in database system (VariantDB) can serialize key/data pairs to/from disk or raw memory easily |
| * All C++ source is "right there" making debugging easier - don't know how to use a component? Look at its source | * All C++ source is "right there" making debugging easier - don't know how to use a component? Look at its source | ||
| * 3D features provided by the optional pre-integrated [[http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/|Irrlicht]] component - Proton SDK doesn't use any of its window setup or input code, but only the rendering pieces | * 3D features provided by the optional pre-integrated [[http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/|Irrlicht]] component - Proton SDK doesn't use any of its window setup or input code, but only the rendering pieces | ||
| * Liberal [[http://www.rtsoft.com/proton/license.txt|open source license]] | * Liberal [[http://www.rtsoft.com/proton/license.txt|open source license]] | ||
| - | * Used in the games [[http://www.rtsoft.com/pages/dscroll_mobile.php|Dungeon Scroll]], [[http://www.codedojo.com/?p=138|Mind Wall]], [[http://www.rtsoft.com/pages/bliparcade.php|Blip Arcade]], and [[http://www.rtsoft.com/pages/dink.php|Dink Smallwood HD]] | + | * Used in the games [[http://www.rtsoft.com/pages/dscroll_mobile.php|Dungeon Scroll]], [[http://www.codedojo.com/?p=138|Mind Wall]], [[http://www.rtsoft.com/pages/bliparcade.php|Blip Arcade]], [[http://www.rtsoft.com/pages/dink.php|Dink Smallwood HD]], [[http://www.rtsoft.com/pages/tanked.php|Tanked (Free 3d game)]], and [[http://www.growtopiagame.com|Growtopia]]. |
| - | * Even if you don't plan on selling a desktop version of your game, having a native desktop binary makes it a breeze to record high speed movies of your app for promotion purposes | + | * Even if you don't plan on selling a desktop version of your game, having a native desktop binary makes it a breeze to debug and record high speed movies of your app for promotion purposes |
| === The Insane Proton Sigslot based Entity/Component System === | === The Insane Proton Sigslot based Entity/Component System === | ||
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| * No hard-coded Render or Update functions, a very different way to think about and use entities | * No hard-coded Render or Update functions, a very different way to think about and use entities | ||
| * Loose coupling, can call functions, get/set variables without knowing anything about the entity/class - directly or scheduled | * Loose coupling, can call functions, get/set variables without knowing anything about the entity/class - directly or scheduled | ||
| - | * Dynamic function/variable creation at an entity or component level using a variant data type | + | * Dynamic creation and runtime binding of function and variables. Supports reflection, remote procedure calls, tweening |
| * Components can share data and work together - for example, adding the RenderTrailComponent will add a 'trail' without knowing anything about the component (s) that is actually handling rendering | * Components can share data and work together - for example, adding the RenderTrailComponent will add a 'trail' without knowing anything about the component (s) that is actually handling rendering | ||
| * Can request callbacks when data is changed or functions are called | * Can request callbacks when data is changed or functions are called | ||
| * You can just ignore the entire entity system if you want, or just use it for your app menus/GUI | * You can just ignore the entire entity system if you want, or just use it for your app menus/GUI | ||
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