Game Develop is now open source!
New automatism: Top down movement (4 or 8 directions).
New russian translation: Thanks to Airvikar!
Multiple images can be dragged from the image bank to an animation of a sprite object.
Updated SFML library: graphics improvements, errors and memory leaks fixes on old graphics card.
Updated Pixi.js library: rendering of HTML5 games is 400% faster, improved CocoonJS support.
Added support for Intel XDK, to export HTML5 games to Android or iOS.
Minification of HTML5 games now faster with UglifyJS. Require Node.js to be installed.
The scene editor now displays the border of the window.
Fixed crashed when searching in events.
Fixed support of projects with filenames using Windows separator () on linux.
Various fixes.
Btw if you would like to get others to make builds for you, now you can absolutely do that thanks to the open source nature.
Somebody needs to write a BUILD script for Arch linux. The current one only drags a debian file and converts it: aur.archlinux.org/packages/game-develop-deb/
It doesnt compile from source. The reason I am mentioning arch is the fact that it is currently the best distribution for building bleeding edge packages from source. Its very good at that and why many people are using it.
The other thing that would be nice, but not as automatic as it is in arch, is to make a build script for debian and ubuntu users. That way people will compile it themselves.
The third is to setup a cooker- a server that automatically builds a package using the build scripts.
What does the build script do?
It automatically downloads the entire source code from git. It checks for dependencies and installs them for you before hand. Then it compiles the source code and creates a package. Lastly it installs the package. Arch linux and its popular user friendly derivatives (manjaro linux) use AUR and users just have to type:
yaourt
and it builds the latest git automagically.
Please note that your git repository is not anywhere in google search results. It is not anywhere on gamedevelop’s official website yet.
You need to make it easy to discover in both search results and the official website. Gamedevelop’s name is not helping, but the website is not helping either. You should announce the git repository the way you announced the web version of gd
It is! There is a button just under the download links.
Anyway as it seems to be not visible enough, I’ve renamed it from “Contribute” to “GitHub repo.” and the “Donate” page is now called “Contribute” and invite the user to check the GitHub repository. I’ve also added links on some texts (like “Open source” in the feature list on the home page) to the GitHub repo.
I hope that these links will help the GitHub repository to gain a better place in the search engines result.
Thanks for the update!
Note: When I checked for updates in my GD 3.3.71.0 it didn’t show me that a new update is available. Only thanks to erdo I realized that a new update is ready.
I’m still working on a bug (memory leak) before releasing the final version including this bug fix.
But I’ve just updated the links with a patched version fixing the bug, see my first post.
I’ve finally solved this serious memory leak issue, and added automatised tests (see travis-ci.org/4ian/GD/) that will make sure that such bugs won’t ever happen again
I’ll release a public version in the next days, I’m working on fixes on Ubuntu. Then it will be time to add some nice things to gdevapp.com
I’ve updated the links of my first message with the latest version (3.4.72.2, forgot to update the latest number but just download again GD and re install it).
Let me know if you have any bug. I’ve also uploaded the Ubuntu version.
I would recommend to use the edited Russian translation where I fixed some mayor errors which can prevent GD to work properly when Russian language is used. For example, leaving English text for path of New projects and for selected choises ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
The edited .po file is here: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4753&start=20
Make sure that you clear the cache : When previewing the game in chrome, press Ctrl+F5 to reload the page and force the browser to clear any data in memory.
