EccentricEngine

A simple engine for Javascript games

Named after the compact, lightweight rotary engine designed by German engineer Felix Wankel in the 1950s and developed more recently by Mazda for its RX-7 and RX-8 sports cars. Some variants have achieved a power-to-weight ratio of more than one horsepower per pound, and the design has been built into a range of vehicles and devices from chainsaws to sports cars.

So, a small, capable power plant for use in a wide range of applications. And also, why would any normal person bother to roll yet another game engine?!

Getting Started

TODO!

But in the meantime, and in the absence of any useful docs, here's my work-in-progress astrowars example of how the engine can be (ab)used.

There's also a fledgling EccentricEngineDemos repo here to which I'll add other demos as I make them.

Versions

1.0.5

• Swap requestAnimationFrame around in Engine start & tick

1.0.3

• Updated dependencies
• Added a Formatter to the Engine to ease string padding / justification and lightweight date/time strings for logging
• Added a deleteObjectById method toEngine to make it easier to kill off a specific gameObject for whatever reason
• Export the Formatter class so you can use it in places other than via the Engine
• Added debugging to see what's going on inside events, timers and other engine functionality. Activate it by adding a ?debug search param to your game url in your browser
• Added a Logger class that sends debug info (see above) to the browser console
• Changed the way that objects deregister their xxx-Loaded event - added a timed call to its initDone method. You now have 500ms to complete your custom initialisation code in game objects.