Excalibur 0.2.0 Released!

We are very proud to announce Excalibur v0.2.0! There are tons of awesome new features!

Check out the full release notes on GitHub!

Release notes summary #

• Collision Map Implementation for building large static collidable levels
• Support for redundant fallback sound sources for cross browser support
• Particle Emitter Implementation
• Trigger Implementation
• Timer Implemenation
• Camera Effects: zoom, shake
• Polygon IDrawable
• Alias ‘on’ and 'off’ for 'addEventListener’ and 'removeEventListener’
• Optimized draw so only on screen elements are drawn
• Support Scale in the x and y directions for actors
• Added notion of collision grouping
• New Events like 'enterviewport’, 'exitviewport’, and 'initialize’
• Textures allow direct pixel manipulation
• Static Logger improvements with ’.debug()’, ’.info()’, ’.warn()’ and ’.error()’
• Added callMethod() action to actor
• Added fade() action to actor
• Added follow() and meet() action to actor

Installation options #

• Install with NugGet: Install-Package Excalibur
• Install with npm: npm install excalibur
• Install with bower: bower install excalibur

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