Nimgame 2

A simple 2D game engine for Nim language.

For more information check home page.

Coding style guide for the contributors.

All pull requests should be done into the devel branch.

Status: v0.6.2 alpha

Requires:

• sdl2_nim package (v2.0.14.2 or newer).
• Runtime libraries for:
  • SDL 2.0.12 or newer
  • SDL_gfx 1.0.1
  • SDL_image 2.0.2
  • SDL_mixer 2.0.2
  • SDL_ttf 2.0.14 (see SDL2 links)

Optional dependencies:

• For plugin/mpeggraphic
  • mpg123 runtime library (dll is distributed within SDL_)
• For plugin/tar:
  • zip
  • zlib runtime library (dll is distributed within SDL2_image builds)
• For plugin/zzip:
  • zip
  • zlib runtime library (dll is distributed within SDL2_image builds)
  • zzip runtime library

Installation through Nimble:

• stable version: nimble install nimgame2@#head
• development version: nimble install nimgame2@#devel

Recommended compilation flags:

--multimethods:on -d:release --opt:speed

Links:

• home page
• demos
• tutorials
• documentation
• ng2planetoids - first demo game.
• ng2gggrotto - Linux Game Jam 2017 entry.

Changelog:

v0.6.2 alpha (2021-08-20)

• Maintenance release to keep up with the current versions of Nim and sdl2_nim until v0.7 is ready

v0.6.1 alpha (2019-06-15)

• Nim v0.20.0 transition

v0.6 alpha (2019-01-21)

• new modules: typewriter
• new plugins: mpeggraphic (+demo22), tar, zzip
• new utils procedures: textureFormat, textureFormats, toSeq, neg, new rand procedures
• color constants
• audio: playing template
• emitter: emission areas, procedure argument for emit
• entity: animation callback, blinking, scale parameters, dim template (by CodeDoes)
• input: mouse wheel events (by CodeDoes)
• icon surface init option
• RW loading procedures
• simplified time counters
• demo23 (transform) (by CodeDoes)
• various minor changes and upgrades, code refactoring
• Nim v0.19.0 transition

v0.5 alpha (2017-08-01)

• changed physics and logic systems
• platformer physics
• CoordInt type
• now collider module is autmatically included into the entity module
• group collider
• huge Tilemap optimizations
• various utility Tilemap procedures
• TextureGraphic.drawTiled
• GUI:
  • GUIProgressBar
  • widget actions
• various minor changes and upgrades
• Nim v0.17.0 transition
• documentation, snippets, and demos update
• second tutorial

v0.4 alpha (2017-05-04)

• GUI:
  • RadioGroup
  • RadioButton
• IndexedImage
• PerspectiveImage
• TextureAtlas
• joysticks support
• window management procedures
• 4 new demos
• first tutorial

v0.3 alpha (2017-03-10)

• camera property (Scene)
• new collision procedures
• reworked input
• Mosaic
• parallax property (Entity)
• TextField
• GUI:
  • Widget
  • Button
  • TextInput
• 3 new demos
• home page, snippets, and documentation

v0.2 alpha (2017-01-31)

• collider optimizations
• music playlists
• random procedures
• tilemaps
• tweens
• emitters
• various fixes
• 4 new demos

v0.1 alpha (2017-01-16)

• base scene/entity system
• assets manager
• basic sound and music
• colliders (point, box, circle, line, and polygon)
• fonts (bitmap and TrueType) and text output
• keyboard and mouse input
• vector drawing procedures