pixelext

README

pixelext - Game Engine Extension for pixel

Important: this is under heavy development and anything might change at any time

This library is an extension to the pixel 2D game engine (github.com/faiface/pixel) and adds the following features:

• Nodes
  • BaseNode
  • Canvas
  • Sprite
  • Sub Scene: render node tree in "sub window"
• Scene management
• GUI elements incl. styling
• Resource management
  • Pictures
  • Spritesheets
  • Fonts (TTF support is planned)
  • Sound samples (WAV) and music (MP3) (uses github.com/gpayer/go-audio-service/snd)
• Tile Map Editor support (https://www.mapeditor.org/)
  • basic tile maps
  • Planned: offsets and other advanced tile map features
  • Planned: general object support
• Planned: integration of collision and physics framework
• Planned: event system for e.g. collisions

Installation

This is based on faiface/pixel, so all its requirements must be fullfilled first, see https://github.com/faiface/pixel#requirements for details.

go get -u github.com/gpayer/pixelext

Example

Go into the example directory and run

go run pixelext.go