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Developing 2D Games in a Declarative Way SBC - Proceedings of SBGames 2012 Computing Track – Short Papers Developing 2D games in a declarative way Sergio´ Correia, Rodrigo Gonc¸alves de Oliveira, Roger Zanoni fsergio.correia, rodrigo.goncalves, [email protected] Nokia Institute of Technology (INdT) Av. Torquato Tapajos,´ 7200, 69093-415, Manaus/AM – Brazil Abstract • SuperGlue is a “textual live language”, based on reactive val- ues known as signals, that are supported with declarative data- This work presents an open source game framework that provides flow connections and dynamic inheritance [McDirmid 2007; ready-to-use QtQuick elements representing basic game entities McDirmid and Hsieh 2006]. The concept of this program- needed by most of games, such as layers, sound, physics, view- ming language is to simplify component assembly by hiding ports and sprites. It is named Quasi-Engine and it eases the task of event handling details from glue code. A simple example is writing 2D games, as we are now able to write such games declara- shown below: tively. Quasi-Engine is also tightly coupled with the popular Box2D physics library, and as such, making use of its simulation capabili- 1 c l a s s GhostShape . Shape f 2 p o r t gs . Shape ; ties is also provided, thus allowing the games to be more realistic. 3 gs = ( Pi e + R e c t a n g l e . s c a l e ( h e i g h t = 0 . 4 9 5 ) . t r a n s l a t e ( y = 25) − Keywords:: Game, engine, 2D, declarative language 4 Eye . t r a n s l a t e ( x = 10) − Eye . t r a n s l a t e ( x = 30) ) ; 5 t h i s . shape = gs . shape ; 6 c l a s s Eye . Shape ; 1 Introduction 7 Eye . shape = P i e . s c a l e ( width = 0 . 2 , h e i g h t = 0 . 2 ) . t r a n s l a t e ( y = 10) . shape ; 8 g Quasi-Engine is a framework that intends to be a complete toolset to ease 2D game development, providing ready-to-use QML (QtQuick, a declarative programming language, such as Prolog and As shown above, there are just a few game engines/frameworks that SQL) elements representing basic game entities needed by most can be used in declarative game development. Unfortunately, these games. This framework is primarily built upon the upcoming major libraries are also very specific on their usage, not being useful or version of Qt framework (Qt5) [Digia 2012], which will ship with adequate for developing different kinds of game styles, limiting the many improvements on the graphical and declarative modules, es- potential of their language. pecially the new SceneGraph engine. Since the absolute majority For a general context, there are some notorious game engines, writ- of Qt-based platforms run Qt4, we also maintain a port for this ver- ten in many different programming languages, such as C, C++, C#, sion. Java, Objective C, Python and a plenty of others. We list here some This project was born from our desire to implement a simple 2D usual game engines: game using the QML language. Although its core components were • Blender [Blender Foundation 2012] enough to put together most of our ideas, a significant effort would be needed to develop more complex elements and concepts, things • CryEngine [Crytek 2012] that could be potentially reused by other similar games. • GameMaker [YoYo Games 2012] Since there were no public engines targeted to Qt/QML develop- ers to date, we decided to roll out our own set of components to • id Tech [id Software 2012] aid development of common aspects of 2D games, and named it • RAGE [Rockstar Games 2012] Quasi-Engine. This paper focuses on the core framework and its application in a real world use case. Among its current features, • Unity3D [Unity Technologies 2012] there are: • Unreal Engine [Epic Games 2012] • Physics support through the Box2D library. • Static and animated layers, including parallax scrolling. 3 The Quasi Framework • Support to state-based sprite animations. The Quasi-Engine framework is built as a set of elements that han- The project roadmap also includes support for background music, dle basic game items. These items are best described below: audio effects, networking and cutscenes. 3.1 Architecture Overview 2 Related Work As the QML engine loads Qt plugins, there is a QML plugin in- terface that provides types and functionalities for the use in C++ There are some declarative programming languages which provide (through Qt), which we used to write this framework. game development support, such as Inform 7 and SuperGlue. Each one has its own peculiarities and they are listed below: The entire codebase is developed in the C++ programming lan- guage (as image manipulation methods, audio handling routines • Inform [Graham Nelson 2006] is a design system for interac- and the Box2D physics library access), so these defined functions tive fiction based on natural language, and its newer version, and types are exposed to QML, being wrapped on a plugin file that Inform 7, focuses on declarative programming. It’s used to can be dynamically loaded later into the game. develop text based games, letting the player explore worlds, stories, historic simulations and experimental digital art. In- Quasi-Engine can be virtually ported to any platform that supports form 7 differs substantially from QML on its source code, the Qt application framework and its declarative module, QML. which reads like English sentences, as stated in the following example: The game loop (also known as the update-render loop), an essential component of any game or game engine, has the following general 1 "Hello World" by "I.F. Author" structure (shown in pseudocode) 2 3 The world i s a room . 1 f u n c t i o n gameLoop () f 4 2 u p d a t e ( ) 5 When p l a y begins , say "Hello, world." 3 r e n d e r ( ) 4 g XI SBGames – Brasiliá – DF – Brazil, November 2nd - 4th, 2012 33 SBC - Proceedings of SBGames 2012 Computing Track – Short Papers The update call is responsible for updating the state of the game – a StaticLayer exhibits one or more layers with static entities, and the render call is responsible for rendering such game images. It is a kind of layer very useful in the creation of entities, making use of their state information. platform games, requiring the elements to have different presentation ordering. Quasi-Engine does not have a game loop with this classic structure, however the same basic logics are followed to update and render its 1 QuasiLayers f entities. The Game element (more on Quasi elements in the next 2 anchors . f i l l : p a r e n t subsection) contains properties to indicate how many times per sec- 3 drawType : Quasi . PlaneDrawType 4 ond the call to update must be performed, and it is responsible for 5 l a y e r s : [ notifying the current Scene element that its entities must be updated. 6 QuasiStaticLayer f The Scene element, on the other hand, execute the update call for 7 i d : l a y e r each of its active entities, which in turn update their own state. 8 9 source : "image.jpg" Quasi does not manage the rendering process, delegating this task 10 order : Quasi . BackgroundLayerOrdering 01 11 g to the Qt Framework; the engine worries only with the management 12 ] of its own entities. 13 g 3.2 Elements – an AnimatedLayer has the same properties a Stati- cLayer does, such as the level control, and the prop- Quasi-Engine provides the basic elements needed to represent a erty of displaying the movement of the layers’ im- game, and we are now going to describe them: ages indefinitely. This effect can be used for creating • the Game element represents a game in its entirety. Its role side-scrolling games, very common in touchscreen cell is to inform the current scene that its elements should be up- phones lacking a physical keyboard. dated. 1 QuasiLayers f 2 1 QuasiGame f anchors . f i l l : p a r e n t 3 pe 2 i d : game drawTy : Quasi . TiledDrawType 4 3 t i l e W i d t h : 32 5 4 width : 400 t i l e H e i g h t : 32 6 5 h e i g h t : 250 7 6 l a y e r s : [ 8 f 7 onUpdate : c o n s o l e . l o g ( "update" , d e l t a ) QuasiAnimatedLayer 9 "image.png" 8 source : 10 9 Component . onCompleted : f order : Quasi . BackgroundLayerOrdering 01 11 10 c o n s o l e . l o g ( "fps" , game . f p s ) 12 11 g h o r i z o n t a l S t e p : 5 13 12 g d i r e c t i o n : Quasi . BackwardDirection 14 type : Quasi . I n f i n i t e T y p e 15 g • the Entity element is Quasi-Engine’s basic entity. It has all 16 ] the basic properties a QML item does, such as position, ro- 17 g tation, visibility and opacity, for instance, and may contain another Entity element, as well as any other QML element. In Parallax is the difference in the apparent positioning of Quasi, every element that may be used in QML inherits from objects, according to the change in the observers’ posi- the Entity element, and they also have a routine – updateScript tion.
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