Game Engine Scope and Tasks

Game Engine Tasks

Must Have

• The ability to draw and render a 2D top down game world (Done)
• an entity framework (In Progress)
• an animation framework (In Progress)
• a post-rendering shader framework (In Progress)
• the ability to load from tiled maps (prevents from having to develop a map creation application) (Done)

Should Have

• the ability to zoom in and out (scale) (Done)
• an effecient collision detection engine (Done - QuadTree)
• a per entity / per tile shader framework
• an application to be able to design animations and speficy frames (however try look into alternatives such as texture compressor)
  • try out QT in the case where an application will be designed from scratch
• an Asset management system for loading and unloading items in and out of memory
• Map scripting in the form of python, lua or external C#
  • example: http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/technical/game-programming/using-lua-with-c-r2275
• Animated tile support
• Composite animation support in entities (allowing entities to make use of more than one animation at one go) (Done)
• Detailed diagnostic information in terms of performance counters (In Progress)
• the ability to reset animations

Nice to Have

• zlib compression support in tmx files
• the ability to pause and resume the state of the world from within the engine itself
• the ability to run on MonoGame