Booty5 Game Engine plugin now in preview

[Dave Smart]

Hi Guys,

For those of you interested in creating 2D games with Physics and animations, there's a brand new DroidScript plugin currently in preview on the Beta forum.  If you are interested in getting early access to it and helping us test it, then head over to the beta forum.

(If you are not currently a beta forum member and want access, then send a email to:-  david [at] droidscript.org and ask to join)

http://booty5.com/

I'm currently working with Mat (the creator of the Booty5) to see if we can integrate his Game level editor with DroidScript too :)

[Michael Seymour]

I was going to start completely rewriting my game, as the code is horribly inefficient (made when I was new to DroidScript), using GLView instead of images. As the "physics" of the game are really simple, would there be any speed advantages in using this plugin with HTML canvas compared to GLView?

[Symbroson Development]

Try it out by drawing 1000 times the same image and compare which object renders faster ;)

[Dave Smart]

Hi Michael,

You will probably find that GLView is faster but it is very basic and only allows you to draw/rotate/skew/scale/move images and not much else.  If you want physics and particle systems and collision detection then you will have to do that all yourself (which is a good learning process but quite time consuming).

Booty5 has Physics, collision detection, particle systems, animation, tweening etc all built-in and documented, so it would be easier to work with. Also Booty5 games run inside an HTML5 canvas, so you could run your game/app on other platforms and in a browser too.

It should be possible to use a transparent background with Booty5 too, so you could put animations over the top of other layers in your app (for tutorials/AR etc)

Regards

David

[Manuel Lopes]

very cool dave the editor is a great featutre . i have a question is the editor offline and the other question you mean +ut the editor in the android droidscropt?thanks

[Dave Smart]

Yes, you can create games offline as the Booty5 plugin and docs all work off-line in both the mobile IDE and WiFi IDE.

[Manuel Lopes]

ok , very thanks

[David Jones]

Cant wait for some Booty5, i sent the email to ask for beta, Thanks.

[Vlad Cheater]

Hi Dave, what do you think about point.js?
Engine demo: youtu.be/rM5sJkg8CZg
Official website: pointjs.ru

[Manuel Lopes]

vlad this work with droiscript?if yes can you share how run any sample?thanks i mean because have 2 .js and 1 html how run this?

[Dave Smart]

If point.js is canvas based, then you could create a DS plugin in the same way that the Booty5 plugin was created.  Just download the B5 plugin and examine the source code (its all pure JavaScript).

http://www.androidscript.org/PluginsTest/booty5.zip

[Manuel Lopes]

Thanks dave but i prefer wait for the booty pluguin because i not have capacity to make this

[Manuel Lopes]