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The How And Why
Third Party Libraries
This engine uses a few third party libraries which solve a great deal of problems:
- 30log for class definition
- STI for the tiled maps
- Hardon Collider for the collision handling
- anim8 for animations
Thanks to all the creators of these!
Characters
Each object defined in the 'character' layer of the map must have a character definition in the 'characters' folder. The file is named like the name of the object. For example an object named matty has a file 'characters/matty.lua'.
In this file all the other properties are defined.
And to clarify: a player is just a character with relevant keys attached to it.
Controllers
Defines the movement of a character. Each character has its own instance. It must implement at least the following functions:
- sendKey(key)
- send a keypress to the controller which then decides if it takes action
- stopAnimation()
- stops a running character animation
and the following properties:
- charinfo
- an instance of a character file
- animation
- the active animation
Apart from those the controller works how it sees fit.