SpriteCraft is a sprite game engine for quick and easy development of qualitative 2D games. With SpriteCraft even a beginner programmer can quickly create a game in any suitable programming language.
If you want to: - create great games without writing tons of code; - program games quickly and easily; - develop games with your favorite programming language and in your favorite programming style, then SpriteCraft is definitely what you need!
Features: - High-level objects management SpriteCraft provides high-level, easy and clear management for all the game objects. Besides of that, it allows you to efficiently automate some operations and assign specific reactions on a variety of events.
- "2D via 3D" approach Although SpriteCraft provides author with a sprite-level interface, the engine itself works with 3D objects and intensively uses the extended capabilities of 3D-accelerators. This allows to perform a lot of calculating operations directly on the video card and lower CPU usage.
- Basic particles system Particle systems are required to show various explosions, trails, fire, fog, smoke and other similar effects.
- Creating tile maps Tile maps allow you to create scrolling background which can also be cycled and/or multi-layered. Tile maps are really indispensable in creating scroll-shooters and other scrolling arcade games.
- Collision detection SpriteCraft gives you convenient mechanisms both for automatic and explicit collision detection. During collision check, the sprite may be considered as a circle, a rect, or a bitmask, which grants you with a range of comparing types, from faster "circle-to-circle" upto slower "pixel-to-pixel".
Other features: - OpenGL and Direct3D/DirectSound/DirectInput support - You can write you games in any language supporting COM: Microsoft Visual C++, Microsoft Visual Basic, Borland Delphi, VBScript or JavaScript. - Powerful scripting language
SpriteCraft 1.3.3 was released by MoleStudio.com on Thursday 16 September 2004. Its known requirements are : Direct3D 7 or OpenGL 1.1, DirectSound.
SpriteCraft will run on Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.