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Build 230119-dev

Download: https://download.tuxfamily.org/opensurg … 19-dev.zip

Lots of things changed behind the scenes since the last dev build.

Highlights:

• Rewrite the video subsystem

  • The F11 hotkey is now used to toggle fullscreen mode

  • Dropped the Resolution setting in the options screen (the window is now resizable)

• Performance optimizations with deferred drawing

  • Ported the 2022 Waterworks brickset to a single image using the Quick Brickset Editor in order to take advantage of deferred drawing

  • Reduced the number of images in the 2022 Waterworks background in order to take advantage of deferred drawing

• Partial support for Android (work-in-progress)

  • Introduced a touch screen-based virtual gamepad for mobile devices

  • Introduced the mobile mode (via command-line option --mobile)

  • Introduced the new Mobile Menu (work-in-progress) with the options to take a snapshot of the game and to view technical information on mobile

• Introduce the new Pause Menu

• New collectible sound effect by M374LX

• Update the tubes. Prevent possible softlock when rolling slowly at the entrance of the tubes with irregular ground

• Reduce the speed of the little animals when underwater

• Change the way bricks on colored layers are displayed in the editor

• Add the command-line option --verbose to print logs to the standard output

• Improvements to the asset system

Hi,

Take a look at https://wiki.opensurge2d.org/User_Input

Please ask new questions on Discord https://discord.gg/w8JqM7m . We're currently using this forum just to share some games and assets for Open Surge.

Hi,

What is your engine version? Is it Open Sonic 0.1.4? Open Sonic is no longer maintained.

Please ask new questions on Discord https://discord.gg/w8JqM7m . We're currently using this forum just to share some games and assets for Open Surge.

Build 22.830-dev

Download: https://download.tuxfamily.org/opensurg … 30-dev.zip

Highlights:

• Add new Waterworks Zone 2, fully playable

• New gimmick: Power Pluggy

• New title screen music by M374LX

• New sound effects: charge, damaged, shot by M374LX

• Update translations: Bosnian, Dutch, Serbian (SecularSteve)

• Improved the Waterworks brickset

• Keep the HUD on the screen while displaying the level cleared animation

Build 22.802-dev

Download: https://download.tuxfamily.org/opensurg … 02-dev.zip

Highlights:

• New Waterworks Zone brickset

• New Waterworks Zone backgrounds: indoors & outdoors

• New Title Card (easier to mod)

• New sprites: item boxes, springs, spring boosters, goal sign, goal capsule, checkpoint

• Update poses of the Surge sprite to match the new style

• Update the explosion sprite

• New font: BoxyBold

• New title screen (WIP) and new End of Demo scene

• Scripting: introduce the concept of action spot & action offset (sprites)

• Scripting: add Player.anchor, Player.hotSpot, Player.actionSpot, Player.actionOffset, Actor.anchor, Actor.hotSpot, Actor.actionSpot, Actor.actionOffset, Animation.actionSpot, Animation.actionOffset

• Scripting: make Level.time read-write

• Scripting: add property Platformer.gravityMultiplier

• Scripting: Event Triggers can now be reactivated

• Scripting: introduce setup object "Surge Gameplay". Make "Default Setup" and "Debug Setup" obsolete.

• Scripting: new function objects: Translate Player, Translate Default Camera

• Fix watercolor algorithm (use pre-multiplied alpha). Multiply RGB values by 2 to get old values.

• Level watercolor now accepts an optional 4th parameter: alpha

• Change the physics slightly

• Improve macOS compatibility

• Remove legacy Allegro 4 code

• Bugfixes and general improvements

Build 22.522-dev

Download: https://download.tuxfamily.org/opensurg … 22-dev.zip

Highlights:

• Fix invalid pointer in the obstacle map when destroying a brick-like object

• Introduce language extensions (languages/extends/ folder)

• New Esperanto translation by Jorge Maldonado Ventura

• Add support for compound ${EXPRESSIONS} when evaluating text

• Evaluate $INPUT_* keys dynamically

• Remove Korean translation

• New regular shield sprite by SecularSteve

• Developer mode: save the last selected level for ease of usage

• Powerups: use a separate sprite as a collision mask

• Increase the width of the collider of the spikes. Thanks to Halatnikov for reporting a potential issue

• General improvements

Thanks for sharing!

In order to try it out, change the players entry in a .lev file as follows:

players "Sonic" "Tails" "Knuckles" "CD Sonic"

Proud member of the LGB-community!

LGB = Let's Go Brandon

The community has moved to Discord, but we surely could have some place where users share their own games and scripts. Discord isn't the place to keep a proper record of things.

Alternatives:
- A new website or forum just for that purpose. A gallery for the users of this engine.
- The wiki. Although interactive, we wouldn't have a feedback section that's as clear as the one we have in this forum
- Keep this forum. Kinda works, but there's a lot of old content here
- What else?

Should preferably be something managed by ourselves, not by some social media company.

I can help you with the crashes and the scripting errors, provided that you report exactly what these errors are and when they happen.

Regarding the art direction and the level design, it's all up to you , but I will say that I appreciate the direction this game is taking.

Keep up the good work!

The forum is still being used to share some games and content, but the community has moved to Discord. It's active there.

Might rethink the space to share the content.

I have found this script among old files. I'm reuploading it for historical purposes.

Download script

This is from 2010 - long before SurgeScript came into being - and no longer works with new versions of Open Surge. It's still useful as inspiration. Experiment it with early builds of Open Surge 0.2.0.