Brux Game Engine

 

License

All code is available under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.

Introduction

Brux (formerly known as XYG) is an open-source, cross-platform, runtime-based game development kit using the Squirrel language. The aim is to make development both easy and versatile, allowing games to be written by hand in a simple text editor or made in an IDE similar to Game Maker, and to allow games to be ported with little to no modification to the code, offering a "build once, run everywhere" development process.

Developers using Brux may freely make games without any need for paid license or royalties. Anyone willing to donate may visit my Patreon or my Ko-Fi.

Disclosure: The material in this {book/paper/blog/article} has not been reviewed, endorsed, or approved of by the Rust Foundation. For more information on the Rust Foundation Trademark Policy, click here.

Nightly Build

http://kelvinshadewing.net/dl/brux-nightly.zip

Dependencies

Runtime

• SDL2
• SDL2_image
• SDL2_mixer
• SDL2_net
• SDL2_gfx
• Squirrel

Integrated Development Environment

• Qt5 (>=5.12)
• K Frameworks 5 (>=5.78.0)

To Do (Runtime)

• Sprite loading and rendering
• Sound loading and playing
• Bitmap monospace text
• Keyboard and mouse input
• Table saving/loading as JSON file
• Bitmap dynamic text
• FPS management
• Gamepad input
• JSON map loading and rendering
• Collision geometry (Currently implemented in Squirrel)
• Chipmunk physics engine
• Networking (details TBD)

Fixes needed:

• Deleting sprites appears to have a chance of deleting the wrong sprite

To Do (Editor)

• Everything (I haven't planned everything needed yet. I'll wait until the RE grows some more.)

Change Log

• 0.2.11

  • Removed support for system() calls (This appears to be built into Squirrel by default and could cause malicious code in game mods)
  • Added binstr()
  • Added windowW() and windowH()
  • Added setScaling()
  • Fixed chance of non-string-convertable type being passed incorrectly in jsonWrite()
  • Added choose()
  • Added pseudo typecasting functions int(), float(), str(), char(), and bool()
  • Added getDrawTarget()

• 0.2.10

  • Remove std namespace
  • Fix image removal mistake

• 0.2.9

  • Add volume controls

• 0.2.8

  • Add mouse wheel detection

• 0.2.7

  • Fix sprite flipping

• 0.2.6

  • Fix replaceSprite()

• 0.2.5

  • Add toggleFullscreen()
  • Add inDistance2(), which skips use of square root for faster distance checking
  • Anything else from 0.2.4, which I forgot to log. :/

• 0.2.3

  • Add min() and max() (Yes, Squirrel was missing these in my tests)

• 0.2.2

  • Add texture and sprite blend modes
  • Add music fadeout
  • Add sound channel controls
  • Fix pointAngle() and lendirX/Y() math
  • Code cleanup
  • Add version number function

• 0.2.1

  • Fix frame timer
  • Add playSoundChannel()
  • Many changes (I've been terrible at keeping track. Sorry.)

• 0.0.10

  • Added sprite alpha blending (Why did this take so long?)
  • Removed unnecessary argument from newSprite()
  • Fixed FPS limiter for real this time

• 0.0.9

  • Added functions to get current display dimensions
  • Fixed FPS limiter
  • Added chint(), which gets an ascii character from an integer
  • Added getFrames(), which returns the number of frames since the game began
  • Added spriteW/H(), which returns the dimensions of a sprite
  • Fixed wrap()

• 0.0.8

  • Embed actors.nut into runtime, now feature complete
  • Added polygon-polygon hit detection

• 0.0.7

  • Added lendirX/Y, equivalent to Game Maker's lengthdir_x/y.
  • Added graphical tilemap per layer rendering

• 0.0.6

  • Add functions to stop, pause, and check music status
  • Remove TinyXML, using cJSON instead

• 0.0.5

  • Update wrap() to support floats
  • Created std library folder
  • Fixed findSprite(), segfault no longer occurs

• 0.0.4

  • Added basic joystick support
  • Added Xinput mapping for Linux
  • Fixed getdir() on Windows
  • test.nut features keyboard/mouse (F1) and gamepad (F2) testing modes
  • Added basic geometry rendering
  • Divided reference docs into multiple files
  • Started writing tutorials

• 0.0.3

  • Added monospace bitmap font support
  • Added support for importing/exporting tables as JSON files

• 0.0.2

  • Finished framerate cap (framerates between 30 and 300 are distinctly different!)
  • Fixed audio bug where loadMusic() would return a sound index instead of music

• 0.0.1

  • Added change log
  • Features existing before change log:
    • Keyboard and mouse input
    • Sprite loading and rendering
    • Sound and music
    • Run games by associating .nut and .sq files with Brux
    • Text rendering