v0.4.0

The final release. Puffin is no longer under active development.

v0.4.0 contains a lot of small changes and fixes that made it into the production version of Oneons.

Functionality:

• Support for getting the text width in pixels
• AudioComponent has a ShouldLoop property for looping audio
• Added ability to change volume at runtime
• Support for MP3 playback
• Support for changing the background
• Horizontal progress bars have a property to make them visible/invisible
• Support for left/right mouse click detection
• You can tween the alpha on text components
• You can now change tilemap images at runtime
• Checkboxes expose an OnToggle callback

Fixes:

• Puffin no longer crashes when going from sub-scene to non-background scene
• Hiding sub-scenes no longer clears the background
• Playing MP3s plays them at the audio component's volume
• MP3 files can play in an audio loop
• Sprites and colour components with alpha=0 are no longer drawn
• OpenAL no longer crashes hard when it's not supported
• Changing volume before the sound starts playing no longer crashes
• BGM volume changes take effect after changing scene/subscene
• Fix: alpha/visibility no longer tweens too quickly or doesn't tween at all
• Fixed a case where tweens no longer update
• Chaining tweens no longer crashes

v0.3.0

This is the third major release, and likely the last release. This release includes several changes required to ship the v1.1.0-v1.4.0 versions of Oneons.

• AudioComponents can specify shouldLoop to loop seamlessly
• Added isVisible property to horizontal progress bars
• You can now change the background any time, not just set it once
• Added a WidthInPixels field for text components (useful for center-justifying)
• Added MP3 and OGG playback support (experimental) - OGG playback may crash on play, changing MP3 components' volumes will change app volume in Windows Mixer on Windows 10
• Fix crash when changing volume before playing a sound
• Fix crash when calling showScene from within a sub-scene
• Fix: OGG/MP3 volume wasn't changeable after changing sub-scenes
• Fix: Puffin doesn't throw if audio is completely unavailable
• Fix: colour/sprite components were drawn despite having alpha=0
• Fix: hiding a sub-scene no longer kills the parent scene's background
• Lots of internal clean-up and code quality improvements

v0.2.0

This is the second release of Puffin. It includes all the functionality necessary for Oneons, which means it's battle-tested and shipped to production, and it was used in a commercial game. Hooray!

v0.2.0 includes too many changes to recount; the major ones include:

• Full-screen support (stretch to fit) and the ability to scale the game
• The ability to display a sub-scene within an existing scene (for things like mini-game or inventory scenes)
• Tweening! Currently, just the ability to tween an entity's position and alpha over time.
• Some new UI components: a horizontal and vertical progress bar, a horizontal slider, and a checkbox.
• A new CameraComponent which allows you to zoom your game, and a property (isUiElement) to prevent entities from being zoomed

Additionally, this release includes a smorgasbord of smaller changes, including:

• The ability to toggle visibility on and off for sprites
• Complete documentation, including fully fleshed-out API docs, and a new articles/tutorials section
• Lots of bug-fixes, including fixes for drawing, spritesheets, crashes, and custom actions
• Sprites, text, collision can be offset within a sprite
• Sprites and text have an alpha/transparency percentage
• Sprites and tilemap sprites can change at runtime
• Tilemaps can move
• Background images
• A game-wide default font, word-wrap, and font colour for labels

v0.1.0

The first complete, minimal version of Puffin. It contains just enough functionality to be useful for one of my game ideas:

• Sprites, text, coloured rectangles, spritesheets, tilemaps
• Load and resize fonts at runtime, without the MonoGame pipeline
• Keyboard and mouse input, and keyboard rebindability
• Velocity and AABB Collision detection and resolution

It also includes full documentation for all public APIs and a decent set of unit tests.

This release probably contains some bugs, so use at your own risk. Feedback and PRs are very much appreciated!